Comparing the Meat Industry to Organ Trafficking

[TrueVegan]

The similarities between the corpse industry and murdering minorities to take their organs​

I don't think forcefully harvesting organs from minorities is that different from eating dead animals: the parallels are stunning. While you could argue that one human is worth more than one animal, the fact is that we murder them in such great numbers that it is a horrendous crime comparable to murdering humans. The question is not if one human is worth one animal, but if hundreds or thousands of animals are worth one human.

1) In both cases, the victim is murdered for the purpose of using the dead body.
2) In both cases, hardcore propaganda is abused to make people accept murder. The meat industry spends money on studies saying we need meat to be healthy, while illegal organ harvesting comes with propaganda aimed at destroying the reputation of a group.
3) Both heavily rely on secrecy. The meat industry censors the mistreatment of animals as much as it can: it prosecutes whistleblowers that sneak cameras. Governments that illegally harvest organs deny it as much as they can.
4) In both cases, the victim will usually be treated in inhumane ways before being murdered. Animals are kept in very cramped cages without sunlight. Minorities, such as Uyghurs, are kept in prison camps with poor living conditions before getting murdered.
5) In both cases, the victim never did anything wrong. They were murdered for the selfish benefit of others.

 

[Alexey_Melnyk]

Powerful comparison really makes you rethink animal suffering. Not easy to hear, but worth discussing

 

[Lou]

I think this topic is worth discussing but only amongst (or is it between?) other vegans. This is a safe place.

Any type of discussion that equates animals with humans among carnists just provokes them. So leave the comparisons of organ trafficking, slavery, and the holocaust for private discussions.

Even PETA, for the most part, stays away from these comparisons.

Isaac Bashevis Singer's quote, "In relation to [animals], all people are Nazis; for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka". Although Singer was a hollocaust survivor and a Nobel Prize for literature winner, he got a lot of pushback and criticism for that statement.

On a barely related topic, recently scientists have learned how to Genetically modify pigs so that their organs can be better suited for human transplants (For more on this listen to RadioLabs episode Return of Alpha Gal). Alpha Gal is a sugar that is produced by mamamals and the Lone Star Tick can trigger an allergy to it. What I found especially poignant is that Amy, the patient whose diagnosis of this rare condition led researchers to figure this out, while allergic to meat had become by necessity a vegetarian. Amy has spoken out against the use of breeding and raising genetically modified pigs for organ transplants.

For me I find this a difficult ethical problem because the transplant of a pig's kidney can save a human's life. it's a real life trolley car problem. BTW, there are over 90,000 people waiting for a kidney transplant in the US.