Farm animals

Farm animals, and this peaceful cow in particular, are all victims of abuse. This is matter of great concern, but only for those who’ve made it their business to look behind the scenes. Those of us who see what they are doing to animals know we have to try to stop it. Our concern is for them – but ‘concern’ is usually reserved for our own children and other humans, and sometimes for the environment, but it isn’t usually extended to these animals, because that would show up all the terrible things we’ve done to them. So we collectively put our heads in the sand. We’re unwilling to fess up, it’s just too messy to think about.
The bottom line is that all animals face execution. Their destiny is so preordained by ‘this other species’ and their fate so inevitable, that all we can hope is their innocence protects them; that they don’t see what’s coming when their last day comes.
Humans who eat animals think they can get away with all this, but it’s likely that the adrenalin rush produced by the animal’s terror at the point of slaughter, saturates the body tissue and makes their flesh toxic. Those who eat it are poisoned by it. It’s not unlikely that some of the terrible diseases afflicting humans (and their companion animals) are linked to these toxins. Truth is: if we kill them, they kill us.