Excuses to share with a future generation

I had an idea yesterday for a short story of sorts. It would be a conversation between myself and my brother's great granddaughter through his son Orlando. When Dan was a kid, he said he would name his son Orlando, so I'm thinking I need to make sure that transpires. Anyway, in those days, people would think of today's farming and culinary situation similar to how we might think of the American South before the abolition of slavery. Maybe not everyone would be vegan, but animal products would be thought of more like tobacco and alcohol are today. Or maybe pornography.

It would be sort of like a conversation that someone in the 1920's might have with an old relative who had lived in the antebellum South, or a conversation today with a relative who lived in Nazi Germany. She would have friends who said they couldn't be Christians because Jesus ate fish and God commanded all those animal sacrifices and sanctioned an oppressive relationship between humans and animals, to which she would reply with apologetic arguments trying to show that God really does care about animal welfare. But she would still wonder how Christians of my day could be so complicit with the problem. To her, it would be obvious that our treatment of animals was diabolical, and she would have trouble understanding how people could suppress their consciences so thoroughly. I would try to give some perspective on how people in other cultural situations think, and try to help her reason in more grays. She would also wonder why I had been such an Uncle Tom, more-or-less abstaining agreeably rather than passionately standing up for the oppressed and setting the captives free. I would try to explain that too.

In those days, governments would set up cushy little farms as a token reimbursement to today's farm animals by preserving their genetic line and being nice to their offspring. People would come and make friends with the fat, spoiled little farm animals- each with a name and a well-known personality, and it would make the humans all the more horrified with their ancestors.

Perhaps Seventh day Adventists first and eventually Mormons would take 'the lead' among Christians, sort of like the Quakers had during slavery, while Evangelicals would mostly align and be associated with the hard core of resistance. And of course Eastern religions would be way 'ahead' of the Christians and Muslims, and make a demographic comeback against the Abrahamic religions because people would find their ethics more respectable and their heritage more inspiring.

That's about as far as I've thought. I don't know whether I could make it a good story. Most likely my skills in fiction writing will need a lot of work. Maybe this is as far as it gets. I'm sort of concerned that it might seem cocky. But showing you all why you're wrong and I'm right isn't exactly the idea; the idea is to think about ourselves from a different angle, whether or not the imagined future is actually a more enlightened one. Or my notion here might seem sort of out of touch with reality. I can handle that; entertaining literature often is.