Animal rights is the last bastion of morality. For at
the root of animal suffering lies all the hypocrisies, justifications
and rationalizations mankind can whip up all in the name of Allah. You
will not stand with a group before Him; and the association you belonged
to on Earth will not matter. Perhaps the buzzard who believes what his
granddaddy said, will genuinely reconsider someday. He will use his own
brain after realizing life is always the best path to take.
All the ails of society find their root in animal abuse.
Whether it be food, medical, industry, technology, entertainment, or any
other violent act committed in the dark, these are direct moral
repercussions of mankind's collective choice to ignore vast animal
suffering they perpetuate. The danger lies in complete denial of it's
existence. It is as much to his own detriment and the planet's, as it is
to the animal he just had killed for him.
This has induced a stupor in millions of people all over
the planet. Most possess the actual inability to think or feel for
anybody except themselves or their immediate family (in itself is an act
of selfishness). We have been taught to be selfish from the beginning.
Those who realize this may decide to get out of the selfish loop and
live lives of selflessness instead. This means they give up for the rest
of the selfish people who refuse to. They do all the sacrificing,
educating, and real praying, because the selfish people are busy running
to fast foods and supermarkets to buy tortured animal parts commonly
referred to as hamburgers, steaks and pork chops; decimating what is
left of the planet in this process.
Since mankind chose to separate himself from nature and
animals because he feels superior and he feels good about exploiting and
butchering, instead of defending and protecting, he can no longer care,
therefore, in any kind of a healthy manner for each other. The
consummation of animal flesh induces hostility and fear, which helps to
perpetuate a violent society. For it is anger and fear that is the last
hormone that rose to the top in agony as a victimized animal was finally
dragged and beaten to death under the cruel hand of the torturer. Humans
have become like unfeeling, unthinking bumper cars. They let the
government do their thinking for them. They are automotons and robots of
the medical industry. This is another area in which the government spins
a golden web around another branch of science. It is up to the public to
wake one another up, to join together for their own health and the
health of the planet. We must break this thick veil of deception and
speak the truth among one another with genuine concern, about the
torture and slaughter of the innocents for unhealthy food. We must break
the spell and quit collectively thinking the consummation of diseased
animals who were tortured to death is moral or acceptable behavior in
any sense. We must stop speaking out of both sides of our mouths.
Because of the crimes committed against sentient beings,
so like ourselves, I can only offer up one call; guilty. For ‘might
makes right gave us the right' to turn morality off after we kiss the
cat and dog goodnight! I stand an innocent vegan now, and proclaim I am
sick and tired of the cruel oppressor telling me HE is offended. It is
he who must get with the moral program, or get out! He thinks he can
continue to stifle the cries and screams from the slaughterhouses of
torture and pain. We have come out of our cultural closet and refuse to
buckle under the cruel hand of the oppressor. One day laws shall pass
that give all animals their right to be free from the cruel human
tormentor. Since all of mankind's woes stem from animal consumption (the
highest form of animal abuse) we will have healed most of mankind's
ailments and afflictions simply by not eating animals. But mankind,
cannibalistic as he is, will probably succumb to the worst choice. He
would have completed the circle of life and found his way back to
happiness and the Garden.
My heart wrenches daily to find some acceptableness to
this traumatic phenomena, but I am always left baffled with a worse
feeling of remorse and sadness for them. How conveniently they turn off
feelings and thoughts toward cows, pigs, chickens, etc., but embrace
with zeal the love of dogs and cats because of 'culture'. The animals
they eat have the ability to love too. I am baffled at it's enormity,
it's blatant disrespect for all life; human life, too, with the horrible
diseases it creates! Animals have had no voice until now.
We live in a death-denying world. We do everything we
can to avoid the topic of finality, especially when it comes to animals,
since they have been chosen to be the ultimate human scapegoats! The
public doesn't want to know slaughterhouses exist. They are far, far
removed. It is up to us to bring the slaughterhouse message home and
make them suffer the very same mentally and emotionally. This is nothing
compared to the torment they put their own individual victim animal
through (this is always one on one, but meateaters know they need to
hide behind groups called religion, culture, and tradition) simply to
satisfy a five minute hunger buzz with something called a hamburger at
some place called McDonald's.
Mankind will promote any diversions and tactics to stay
out of the know when it concerns animal butchery and their continual
moribund health because of this practice. One has only to take a look at
the facades of the fast foods to know that horrible cruelty lurks behind
all the primary colors of childhood. To discuss one would be to discuss
the other. There is a wide psychological gap strategically set up and
most don't have the courage or desire to cross that bridge and unite
with their suffering. Since walls have been built up over centuries
concerning this topic, it is not an easy one to publicly penetrate and
discuss. Prevarication has always been part of the genuine makeup in the
oppressive act over the animal kingdom in the first place. That is why
our voices are penultimate. The oppressor knows that without other
humans speaking up, everything would be nice and cozy as they gallop to
the graves with heart disease, rapidly destroying the planet in the
process.
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