12/09/2022
We are all farmers…👨🌾 🚜 🐑 🌾 🐓 🥦 🐖 🥬 🐄 🍌 🤗
Without a plough in sight, tractor to drive or gumboots at the ready, we are, to the surprise of many, all farmers. However, for most this is by proxy. For where and what we choose to buy tells farmers what to produce and how.
And whilst this weaves into the intricate system of market forces that creates the diverse range of consumer products, there is a great and often underrated force as well – our kindness.
This is never more true than for farmed animals. For what we choose to put in our supermarket trollies and what we choose to leave on those shelves represents their greatest hope for mercy. And whilst bigger cages, free range systems or analgesics for painful procedures acknowledges their sentience and may provide some marginally better circumstance for the hapless animals, nothing offered here circumvents the inescapable, dire and unnatural end for them – most within their first years of life.
However, the good news is that the collective social consciousness of us all is being heard by farmers, manufacturers and even financial institutions across the globe. From climate change to environmental sustainability to the treatment of animals – never before have our individual choices had the ability to have so much impact.
So please remember this: we are all farmers and we reap what we sow, as does our one and only wondrous planet and all of her unique inhabitants. And when one sows the seeds of kindness, we cultivate the most humane world possible for all.
📷 Turnup ❤️
"If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn't we?"