Imagine that fifty years from now there's an amendment to the US Constitution against torturing and eating animals. This came about not because of concern for animal welfare (who cares how animals suffer if they're not our pets?) but for environmental reasons. Still, students are educated to know--and even care--about the horrors perpetrated in factory farms in earlier times. They can't believe that at one time people accepted the brutal treatment of animals intended for slaughter..
Now it comes time to review the wisdom of naming certain schools after board members, and it's discovered that those board members were once eaters of animals.
"But that was the custom back then," say the defenders of school board members. "We have to judge them in the context of the time in which they lived."
"Oh, there were lots of individuals and organizations bringing the horrors to light and insisting that farm animals were sentient beings, not inanimate objects, but they went on torturing and eating them."
Now what?
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