Systemic Animal Abuse in "Am I Blue?"

“Am I Blue?”, by Alice Walker, is a nonfiction story that tackles themes of how non-human animals are inhumanely treated by humans for their own material gain. In the story, Walker writes about an experience she had with a horse who suffered because of its owner's own wishes. One quote I would like to discuss from the text is as such: “And we are used to drinking milk from containers showing ‘contented’ cows, whose real lives we want to hear nothing about, eating eggs and drumsticks from ‘happy’ hens, and munching hamburgers advertised by bulls of integrity who seem to command their fate”…