The fundamental wrong is the system that allows us to view animals as our resources, here for us-to be eaten, or surgically manipulated, or exploited for sport or money. Once we accept this view of animals as our resources-the rest is as predictable as it is regrettable. Why worry about their loneliness, their pain, their death? Since animals exist for us, to benefit us in one way or another, what harm them really doesn’t matter- or matter only if it starts to bother us, make us feel a trifle uneasy when we eat our veal escalope, for example. So yes, let us get veal calves out of solitary confinement, give them more space, a little straw, a few companions. But let us keep our veal escalope