ABSTRACT
The title of this chapter suggests that being “human” may not necessarily coincide with being a consumer, or that there can be a conflict of interests. Indeed, in a world of globalized businesses, where outsourcing has removed production from the field of vision of consumption, and where the sheer scale of mass consumption has short circuited considerations of welfare (of human and nonhuman animals) with considerations of profit and low retail price, the question is as relevant as in the height of the industrial revolution.
