Jane Broccolo, Talks
With Pets
January 2016
For the record, neither the FBI or NPR mention anything about eating or using animal products, let alone having it lead to violence against humans.
NPR’s video and transcript gave news that the FBI will now “track animal abuse the way it tracks arson or assault” [Along With Assault And Arson, FBI Starts To Track Animal Abuse].
The research we've known aboout for decades is still spot on. Animal
abusers, whether children or adults, are likely to extend their violence to
humans.
Jeffrey Dahmer, Son of Sam, school shooters, gangs. All animal abusers.
The military – in some of their hands-on training practices – and political
dictators go without saying.
Thousands, millions, billions spread terror around the world, all animal
abusers.
Billions? Yes, billions when we really think about it with our hearts
holistically connected to our brains.
Anyone who eats meat or dairy, who still buys wool or fur or animal skin,
who attends rodeos, horse and dog races, and so on, is closer to committing
violence toward humans than one who chooses everyday to cause as little harm
as possible to other living beings…my biased opinion based on NPR’s report
on the FBI, and on my observation of human nature. (For the record, neither
the FBI or NPR mention anything about eating or using animal products, let
alone having it lead to violence against humans.)
Every time we go shopping, we have a choice: do we choose to be an
accomplice in violence, or do we choose to do as little harm as possible?
If you are one who is aware – and how can you not be aware, if you are on
this page – of the daily atrocities committed against animals in the food,
entertainment, sport, and clothing industries, you are aware that your
choice to ignore the grueling facts by buying into these industries
increases the supply of animals tortured and slaughtered to meet your
demands.
No matter how much you love your pets, if you eat animals and consume
products made from milk for their babies, or eat their eggs, you are an
animal abuser.
If humans can easily gloss over complicity in animal abuse, doesn’t it
follow that it would eventually become a piece of cake for those humans to
also justify becoming violent against fellow humans in times to come of
water and food shortages? Doesn’t it make sense that those humans would find
a way to make “hey, it’s either them, or me” their mantra?
The good news:
According to a report by Mercy for Animals, 12% of Millennials choose
plant-based diets, as compared to only 1% of baby boomers who have no choice
but to eventually make room for younger, more humane humans to take over.
Such as my yoga teacher’s six-year-old who put his whole family on a plant-
based diet the moment he questioned why they were eating animals as loving
and cuddly as their dog. What’s a mother
to do, but Go Vegan.
Why do humans love animals and yet have them tortured and slaughtered?
Do you?
Jeffrey Dahmer loved the humans he ate. I wonder if he ate the animals he
tortured, himself, or just the ones he had tortured by others.
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