Just the other day, it was announced in the news that the number of
mortgage foreclosures is increasing. At the same time, we are
bombarded with TV commercials pushing the worst processed
animal-derived “foods” on children and their parents. It’s very
obvious that the target audience being manipulated by these ads are
those who can least afford the diseases – and the pharmaceuticals
prescribed for them – that result from eating those products.
Every time I see the cheese and processed meat commercials that use
children to promote this junk, I think how (in my opinion) this is a
form of child abuse. The targeted children are not only fed unhealthful
food, they are fed lies (whether by omission or not) about the source of
such “food.” So another generation of insensitive, obese, unhealthy,
ignorant customers will keep huge profits flowing into the pockets of
the abusers.
From RPA:
“People with precarious finances who consume flesh, milk & eggs are
more likely to become poor through ill health, related expenses, and the
difficulty of working steadily.” Costly diseases like those caused by
flesh, milk & egg consumption are linked to large numbers of mortgage
foreclosures.”
“For millennia, raising cattle has fostered poverty by driving
plant farmers off their land, reducing the land’s fertility, and
concentrating Earth’s wealth in the hands of the few by channeling it
through large animals owned by the few.”
“Acts of war such as bombing and destroying an enemy’s crops and
other resources kill, injure, and degrade habitat of nonhuman animals as
well.”
“Topsoil loss due to cattle grazing and producing feed crops for
cattle, chickens, pigs and other animals diminishes Earth’s wealth,
concentrates farmland in the hands of the few leaving less for healthful
agricultural production, and ensures high food prices.”
I’ll close with this Rachel Carson quotation:
“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is –
whether its victim is human or animal – we cannot expect things to be
much better in this world…”
