Yesterday while driving along, I stopped to let a truck reverse and then
saw a few sheep in a trailer attached to the truck. One beautiful,
healthy creature was close to the edge of the trailer and we were so close that
I saw its noble face and eyes and, to my horror, I realised the truck was
reversing towards an abattoir. It seemed so abhorrent on such a sunny morning
that the same people who are rejoicing in a rare summer’s day and the beauty of
nature are condoning the slaughter of beautiful creatures like that! I wished I
could buy the sheep or do anything to say, “We are better than this! We are not
savages who need to kill innocent beings...” And I did nothing except ‘pray’ for
the animals and apologise to them in my mind for what people do to them.
Animals are renowned for their intuition and it is therefore obvious that
they know they are on their way to the slaughter-house. The natural physical
response to that fear is the production of chemicals within the body and so,
when someone eats a dead animal, they are eating those chemicals and eating the
animal’s fear.
When we seen films about the Romans and the entertainment in the coliseum,
or read of some of the tortures and punishments of the past, it is difficult to
believe that people – good people! – accepted these things as normal. I believe
that at some future time – perhaps a century from now, though I pray it will be
sooner – people will look back at these practices in horrified amazement, in the
same way as we look back on some of the barbaric practices of the past, and say,
“Did my ancestors really do that? How could they? Oh, the grossness of eating
the flesh of another creature!”
You don’t die if you don’t eat dead animals. You don’t become weaker. You
don’t become less healthy. You don’t lack protein or calcium. You just can walk
among our fellow creatures and feel the awe of being a part of the wonder of
creation...and you feel a lot healthier for it!
3 comments:
Brilliant!!! If more people were to
watch the film Earthlings, or slaughter houses had glass walls
this hidden holocaust would end.
Thank you,
Tess
It really pains me when I see animals being cruelly treated in any way. I feel like these animals are also like humans, and they deserve a beautiful life. If all people would have to find and kill the food they have to eat, I think all people would become vegetarians.
Thank you so much Tess and Gem for your comments!
What a thought - slaughter houses with glass walls, or people having to kill the food they eat! I really appreciate what you have both written - thank you.
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