Carnivore Comforts

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Edited by CJ Tointon

Unless we all leap forward into "herbivorous-ness" now, animals will continue to be assaulted.  Humans will risk anything for the sake of comfort food, none of which is nutritionally necessary or unable to be replaced by plant-based alternatives.  Clothing can be made with plant or synthetic fibres.  Yet some people are locked firmly into old habits.  They still go for animal-based products and get sucked in by the immense variety of stuff they can choose from.  It seems they can't resist the "pop-foods" the Animal Industries churn out.  But for that little luxury, the animals pay dearly.

         

Unless we’re naturally kind people or we’ve developed an ethical core, there’s nothing much to stop us going along with the crowd. We know that animals can’t hit back so it seems safe to abuse them.  We do it because we can 'get away with it'.  And it’s true, the animals can’t hit back, but there’s a sting in the tail. Their 'edible' body parts are toxic by way of saturated fat,  high protein and adrenaline (cortisone-like secretions and steroids) which stimulate fear pheromone production.  So the meat coming out of abattoirs from terrified animals results in poor health and poor vitality and this is how the animals 'hit back'.  It’s like Montezuma’s revenge.  We eat animals to feel good, but we end up feeling NOT so good.  And the many decades of eating body parts of executed animals (as well as their milk and egg secretions) makes for the various illnesses we humans suffer and is the just returns for what we've put the animals through.  Our penalty for pretending ignorance.

         

Until recently, the mass population had not been made aware that there was any danger in eating animal foods either from an ethical or health perspective. We’ve just been mindlessly exploiting animals and using them  as an available resource.  We’ve been doing it for aeons because each generation has mindlessly copied what previous generations have done. There's no evidence that people ever did relate to animals differently.  No evidence of any concerted attempt to live non-violently, to show respect for animals by leaving them alone.

This is the ugly side of human nature.  This pragmatic, utilitarian attitude to those weaker than ourselves. We’ve learned how to take advantage of anything that can’t fight back and animals have always been easy pickings. We’ve learnt how to catch them, keep them captive, imprison them in cages and crates which restrict their movement, efficiently breed them, extract whatever we can from them and, finally, execute them.  We design execution chambers to make the killing more timesaving for us and then say that the animals are 'killed humanely'!   And then - for chrissakes - we EAT them!  What sort of relationship is that between fellow sentient beings????

         

The way animals are treated today is so sad, it makes my head spin to think about it.  And 'thinking' is the key here, the lack of which leads most poor suckers to the abattoir door to get their fix.  There they willingly allow large amounts of money to be extracted from them, to pay for what is essentially a dangerous substance and one which is definitely replaceable with more humane and healthy alternatives.