How Do We Treat Animals?

As soon as we imagine a person or an animal to be at from ourselfs, it gives us permission to behave towards them in a way that we would never countenance another behaving towards us. Why? It's just because we feel we are separate from them. You remove that feeling of separation, and you feel, i am that other person, then we then treat the other person, the animal in this case, as we would want to be treated. This understanding would have profound implications for the way we treat animals, the way we do politics, our education and system, medical system,. As bernardo hinted earlier. We would literally feel that the environment is is, is part