The Greek philosopher Plutarch wrote over two thousand years ago, "was for a bite of meat
we take an animal, the sun and the light and the little bit
life and time to enjoy at which his destiny would be." There is much to be
of animal welfare, human killing, torturing organic meat ... .. a man to torture, starve him and finally kill him, is cruel. to put a man into a "species-appropriate" room, providing him with a TV, good food and books to kill him, then after a short period as is, same wrong - only less painful. Appropriate conditions for the animals is only freedom.
"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields." This was fond of quoting from animal rights activists set by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is often dismissed as simplistic world view naively romantic.
It's about the attitude to and treatment of animals as a - look to factor in the horrible, the people themselves (multiple nevertheless not be underestimated!) . Hurt Specifically in relation to armed conflicts, for example, speaks much for the development of military technology has its roots in the confrontation of humanity with the animals, such as the American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich proved. In her book "blood rituals - the origin and history of the love of war," she writes, "The first weapons were almost certainly originally developed to animals and used. The same applies to the tactics of frontal assault and the attack wedge. "
animals that depend on us and we have not done anything to people, perhaps even once were good and sweet, are found in one hell of a slaughterhouse in the back, surrounded by people they do to the most egregious and most horrible things. This is treason in its purest form. And it not only involved are those that make the nail gun or the knife, but all in whose behalf they do so factual - the consumers, serving at the meat counters of the supermarkets.
As long as we wage war against animals - and the food of animals and animal products is
war against animals! - There can be no peace among men. This is what Leo Tolstoy means by his quote.
And this link between our treatment of animals and our
dealing with people is considered accurate, too far from surprising, rather than consecutive. Two examples may illustrate this:
A farmer has a cow, a donkey and some chickens, with whom he lives for months and years "under one roof" and "cooperate" by making use of cow's milk and the eggs of chickens and spans the front of his donkey cart. As soon as his "comrades" but the farmers are no longer useful, he shoots them or chop off their head.
Or the current practices with geese, an editor of the "Salzburger Nachrichten" obviously also still find quite funny: "The geese follow day by day the Keeper full confidence in the quarters for the night. You will soon as trusting as clueless march behind him to the slaughter. "
really Can anyone who tries even close to an unbiased verdict, seriously believe that is such a loyal and heartless behavior toward animals with no impact on dealing with people? writes "ethics to the people and brutality towards animals are two behaviors that are incompatible to"
Robert Jungk, "for cruelty to animals is seamlessly with cruelty to humans."
"The road to Auschwitz begins .. . in the slaughter house "The
might even Franz Stangl, the commandant of Treblinka, can agree. Anyway, he says in an interview with Gitta Sereny (she had interviewed in 1971 in Düsseldorf in a prison Franz Strangl and this interview was then published as a book "On the Edge - Conversations with the Executioner"):
"Years later, on a trip to Brazil ... my train of thought in the vicinity of a
slaughterhouse. The beasts trotted up to the fence and stared at the train. They were pushed very close before my train window, close, and they stared at me through the fence. I thought: Look at this; reminds you of Poland, just as trusting the people there have seen - just before they went into the cans (...) This large, round eyes ... staring at me frankly ... without knowing that they are only moments later they would all be dead. "
Robert Jay Lifton's book in the" Doctors in the Third Reich "says the SS physician Dr. B.
the process of adaptation to the mass murder:
"When you first see a selection .... (...) You see, when children and women will be selected. Then one is so shocked that so ... that can not be described. And after a few weeks you can get used to it. And you can ... anyone explain. Because no one would understand. (...) This can only be experienced .... But I think I can give you an impression: If you ... even go to a slaughterhouse where animals are slaughtered. There is also the smell is one of them ... not only the fact that the animals fall over and so on. You will probably not be able to eat more steak with relish. And if you do it for two weeks every day, then they like their steak as good as they used too. "(P. 180 f.)
This is the principle of dullness, in which a large proportion of the population has grown into habitual and blatant injustice even more than those feel. It does not respond to what should not be. The meat eating is a settlement with a monstrosity - it is against the deeply human wake Conscience to take a fellow creature's life just because some taste buds just ask for it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Nobel laureate, who lost in the Holocaust, many family members including his mother and his younger brother,
writes in the foreword to a book on vegetarianism (p. 232):
"As long as people shed the blood of animals There will be no peace. It is only a small step from killing animals to the gas chambers to Hitler and Stalin's concentration camps.
(...) As long as people stand there with a knife or gun to kill those that are weaker than them, there will be no justice. "
Vegetarian Nutrition is your contribution to peace.
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