It has been a constant throughout human history that certain entities have had the ability to manipulate judicial and government institutions, simply through their ability to overcome opposing factors via their accumulated monetary advantages and their ability to manipulate vital life-sustaining resources. Furthermore, with their legal resources, they can avoid their obligations, such as taxes, recompense to those they harm, and instead receive government support for their degradations via subsidies. Their negative influence impacts the safety and rights of individuals, even to the extent that the collective safety of humanity is under threat thanks to their ability to create and damage environments to the extent that public health is placed at risk.

Aside from this weaving of influence, the very nature of these industries is violent, and this in turn promotes human violence via a diminishing of empathy and a twisted moral framework that treats all other humans and animals as only there to be exploited.

Animal abuse and slaughter, for commercial purposes, promotes violence, since the cruel subjugation and killing of any sentient being creates room for an acceptance, justification and expansion of violence. Aside from human-on-human violence, the PTSD incurred can lead to self-harm and substance abuse, and other serious criminal acts.

While societies base the worth of a being, not on the ability to feel pain or to know suffering, but instead on an order of hierarchy, children will continue to be terribly abused, women taken advantage of, and those whose beliefs, habits, or values differ from our own denigrated.