Animal exploitation historically preceded and models human manipulation.

Evidence

Animals have thus preceded us on the path of liberal extermination. All the aspects of the modern treatment of animals retrace the vicissitudes of the manipulation of humans, from experimentation to industrial pressure in breeding. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 417

Categorization

• XREF: Parallel to the reader’s existing thread on sacrifice and ritual — animals as the sacrificial class that absorbs violence on humanity’s behalf. — connects to: Cruelty to animals may underwrite cruelty to dehumanized humans; Controlling nature and controlling humans advance together within science — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 614; Torturers’ animalization of detainees mirrored the medieval monster image of Muslims (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Cruelty to animals may underwrite cruelty to dehumanized humans #expands (0.85)
• Controlling nature and controlling humans advance together within science #corroborates (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 614
• Torturers’ animalization of detainees mirrored the medieval monster image of Muslims #exemplifies (0.75)