The root cause of the human hierarchical, authoritarian social structure

Published July 12, 2016 | By Will Tuttle

lemurs by visionary artist Madeleine Tuttle Wealth, gender, and race determine the extent of our privilege in a human hierarchy between rich white men on one end and impoverished non-white women and children on the other. Even poor humans have some privilege compared to animals, however, and it is this hierarchical, authoritarian social structure—pervasive, transparent, and taken for granted—that is the unavoidable outcome of commodifying animals and eating them.