Concern for Farm Animals

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Edited by CJ Tointon

A farm animal (a cow in particular) is a victim of many abuses done 'behind the scenes'.  I actually looked behind a farm door once to see what went on.  It was like watching someone being raped!  All I've got is concern.  All anyone should have is concern.  

My concern - and your concern - counts for a lot.  It’s our powerhouse.  It's our wellspring of potential.  That is, if you 'put your money where your mouth is'.  We have to show concern.  We cannot travel with old worn out methods of solving this animal cruelty problem.  Politics, guns, hating, judgement - none of this will help the animals.  

We live in a world ruled by the 1%'ers - the educated rich.  They allow animal cruelty to happen.  But the rest of us, the 'innocent' 99%'ers, still condone it in some form.  We moan about disparities of wealth:  they - rich and bad, me - poor and good.  But we're all in the same boat over THIS matter.  Nearly all of us are doing it.  Eating/using animals and having no regard for them at all. 

"Our first concerns usually go to humans in trouble.  These are members of our own species after all".  But with attention focused on concern for our environment, world peace and world hunger issues, there seems to be none left over for …. ANIMALS ... especially farm animals and for what they are being put through day after day after day.  Any show of concern, however slim, can be the beginning of a very slippery slope of change.  It will change our lives.  But changed for the better.  We can be holding fast to our beliefs regarding the abolition of animal cruelty/usage. 

The acknowledgement of 'concern for animals' flowers, then floods our senses.  It keeps us feeling secure and nicely balanced from day to day.  To acknowledge that we need to stop the terrible things we’re doing to animals is a very big acknowledgement to make!

Understandably, it's too much for some.  Their 'concern' remains hidden, silenced, almost blanked out!  But thoughts, once thought, can't be unthought.  Why vote for people who have 'blanked out' on animal issues.  The politician and the producer, the wealthy and the poor - all of us (except for a few true vegans) - bury our heads in the sand when it comes to 'making use of animals'.    'Animal Welfare' - it's just too 'messy' a subject to think about. 

But if you're in the mood for 'messing', then know this.  'Domesticated' animals face execution every day at the hands of humans.  We 'ordinary people' hire assassins to do this executing as very few of us have the ability to kill on such a large scale.  

Playing with another being's destiny is the central factor here.  It's the biggest trauma for anyone - including animals.  Not the death as such, but the coldness of the execution.  This is abattoir style. These animals' fates are in human hands.  Whichever way you look at it, their fate is inevitable and with no salvation.  One can only hope that some 'magic bean' of innocence protects them.  I shudder to think how it could be for them if they somehow CAN premeditate what's coming.  

Humans who eat animals think they can get away with it and remain healthy.   It's more likely, however, that the adrenalin rushing through an animal’s body at the point of terror and trauma, saturates its body tissue, toxicifying it's flesh, passing the toxins along to any who eat 'it'. 

I wonder if the most terrible diseases afflicting humans are linked to a weakening of our immune systems brought about by the toxic effect of continuously eating animals, animal parts and animal secretions!  I nod to a truth which says:  'If you kill them, they'll kill you'.

 Now that's Justice for you!