You like the smell of it in the morning as bacon. You love the BBQ, the grilling, the supple meat that falls off the bone. You don't mind the word "slaughter house". Educate yourselves. HERE.
This is truth, and NOT an exception.
There is no way to avoid, nothing you can argue to make this acceptable; nothing to refute its large-scale truth here in America. Why should we allow something this grotesque just for the taste in our mouths- a momentary pleasure that will never satisfy?
You think you care about sustainability? CARE BIGGER.
Factory farming is without a doubt the NUMBER ONE contributor to environmental corruption and decrease.
the effect of factory farming on the environment.
New York Times Article
from this article:
“I’m not sure that the system we have for livestock can be sustainable,” said Dr. Pachauri of the United Nations. A sober scientist, he suggests that “the most attractive” near-term solution is for everyone simply to “reduce meat consumption,” a change he says would have more effect than switching to a hybrid car.
..Soy cultivation has doubled in Brazil during the past decade, and more than half is used for animal feed.
...Estimates of emissions from agriculture as a percentage of all emissions vary widely from country to country, but they are clearly over 50 percent in big agricultural and meat-producing countries like Brazil, Australia and New Zealand."
This article is arguably even in favor of meat-eating, but acknowledges the excessive impact that the meat industry has on the environment. Read it.
Friends, the true heart of a person is determined by his/her treatment of animals. A truly heroic kindness is compassion for an animal; for an animal cannot give anything back. God has dominion power over us, but does he exploit us for his own gain? It is not just about the rights of animals, but the mercy and compassion of man enacting the model God has set for his creation.
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest ~ a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner security.
-- Albert Einstein
There are only two responses. ACTION, or LAZINESS.
And friends, I am lazy; so lazy; all the time. We must strive for this, and that will be the liberation from our small limitations for love and compassion.
What you do unto the least of these, my brothers....
