Open Letter to thinking people
Our treatment of animals is marked by a deep irrationality.
On the one hand, loved animals, such as a dog and pampered and the abuse of them is socially ostracized and disgusted to write about it in newspapers. But at the same time, other creatures such as the pig, which really has no significant biological or psychological differences to the dog, tortured and killed, slaughtered and eaten. It even seems quite normal to their Christmas table with such a tortured and slaughtered animal "grace".
animals are either beloved pets and stuffed animals or simply disappear into an anonymous mass, which will be can kill and eat on the plate.
But surely you would your dog or your cat or your canary does not kill and eat ... Why then pigs and cows that are just as sensitive beings and are also able to share feelings? You'd find it but not right when superior extraterrestrials on the world would come to us and thus treated like we treat animals. Why do we then treat animals like that? You lean but from the law of the jungle as an ethical guide. Why should it apply to animals?
It is an amazing perception bias, which indulges the flesh eating normal population: how terrible and incomprehensible find it all but when they read in the paper about people who commit the most trivial of reasons, a murder. But there is a trivial reason to kill someone or have them killed, as the desire for a certain taste?
A woman entered a pet store to buy bird food, and since it was winter, she wore her rabbit fur coat. When they stopped at a rabbit cage to stroke a few rabbits, they heard behind him a woman voice saying loudly: "Do not you find it hypocritical to pet this animal, if they wear it all his family on the body"
live in this conflict the meat-eating animal lovers ... one hand loves the animals, enjoying them, and the other one is through the consumption of meat contracting for their killing.
midst of our highly developed Western culture, amidst all the glorious monuments of our history, art, religion and science, there are the dark areas. These are the factory farms and slaughterhouses - faceless, closed areas where the company handles being dirty work of the abuse and murder of innocent, sentient. We are good citizens and actually have a pretty good idea of what is happening there, but we do not prefer to know as well ... ..
does exactly what our complicity still common.
vegetarianism to teach active means for justice: it is identifying with the powerless and the vulnerable, the downtrodden and oppressed victims. If we do not believe in the fascist principle that might is right, we have no right to our fellow creatures, animals, harm and eating their bodies.
How long will you watch the inferno and silent?
have done what the animals that they deserve this?
A dead cow or sheep is on the pasture as a cadaver. The same carcass cut, and lying on the plate, is now suddenly "food" called.
Eating meat is a terrible Form of pleasure. What kind of a pleasure when you think how meat became flesh?
When watching sausages in a shop window I said to them
"You have once been alive, you had to suffer, but now you have been suffered.
Is there somewhere in the cosmos a plaque that reads from you?
It no longer recognizes your original form, the schwerzerfüllte blurred face, the tears are shed. Probably you are still full of fear and horror of your past ....
that you have been recently been a sentient being, no one wants to know more ....
Our desire to eat meat has, you deformed ... .. "
A sentient and thinking person ought to come to the conclusion that one can not be peaceful if you kill the same time other creatures that can not be for justice, if at the same beings who are weaker than you even lead to the slaughter and torture and murder they can - by eating meat. People who eat meat or
goes hunting, is explained with the cruelty of nature and agree with every bite of meat or fish, he eats, he says: Who has the power to the right.
vegetarianism is an expression of protest against this attitude. The commitment of our outrage it is small, yet effective: stop eating meat.
"detached" The opposite of not only "adhered", it is also cramped asceticism.
The opposite of "brave" is not only cowardly, it's also arrogance.
The opposite of "good is not only" bad ", it's indifference.
And it is the indifference seen so tragically in our dealings with animals. Eating meat is not a harmless eating habit to a matter may be.
Who would know in a military dictatorship is not what happened to the vanished neighbors, was a cowardly followers. Anyone who does not want to know what happens in slaughterhouses with animals is a selfish complicity. On the moral status of non-wanting to know, nothing has changed.
There are people who do not see this, because the inspection would reveal their involvement in the murder and they would spoil the appetite. What's that appetite, which thrives on the ignorance?
Syam Priya Kunj - the place of silence and contemplation
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