Near the end of my life, just when I thought I'de seen it all, has come my worst, saddest, most horrible experience - an awareness that has totally shattered my existence and all I thought was right before. Every day of what is left of my life now is overshadowed by this terrible realisation.
It happened when I first saw video footage of farm animals being tortured and slaughtered in the most inhumane manner in Indonesia and Middle East countries. It's something I had not thought about before. You eat meat but never think much beyond that. You certainly don't think of it as a living being like you that has been butchered alive.
As I witnessed the horrific atrocities I was totally shocked and broke down in tears. Most of it was so beastly that I could not watch all of it. I wondered how the men who did these things could be human. Surely they were mentally unbalanced. I was told they did it for their god.
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| Beautiful creatures like these Brahmans are subjected to beatings, eye gouging, tail breaking and have their throats cut while still alive |
I later learnt that, like us, animals feel fear and pain, just as they feel happiness and love. They are also intelligent. This has been scientifically proven about many animals like cows, pigs, sheep and chickens.
I realised that this cruelty has been going on for thousands of years. Man has always assumed animals are simply tools to be used and made money with. He has enslaved them and denied them all rights.
In these modern times it is money and the greed for it that is causing the greatest amount of animal cruelty the world has ever seen. Farmers and the food industry are producing more food than ever in history.
We are constantly brain washed into eating meat and meat by-products. Many millions of dollars are spent every day in advertising and public relations to make you buy meat.The presentation is made as tempting as possible but not a word is said about how meat gets to you.
We are constantly brain washed into eating meat and meat by-products. Many millions of dollars are spent every day in advertising and public relations to make you buy meat.The presentation is made as tempting as possible but not a word is said about how meat gets to you.
For me, this realisation is like living in a nightmare, like in one of those horror movies where the people around you seem nice but you know they are really Vampirish flesh eaters. The human race is condoning the mass torture and killing of animals and eating them and doesn't realise the horror of it all.
I just hope that one day after I'm gone people will change and will wake-up to the reality. Maybe world goverments will eventually legislate to stop all animal killing. Maybe people will just stop eating meat and the cruel and greedy meat farmers and supermarkets will go out of business. Maybe takeaway chains will become meatless health food stores.
At least there are some people who know the truth and their organisations will keep fighting for animal rights and try to awaken others to it. God bless those people for their efforts are based on love and kindness for animals and come from the heart. Most of them are volunteers.
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| SHEEP CONSOLE ONE ANOTHER BEFORE BEING HOISTED UPSIDE DOWN AND HAVING THROATS CUT |
By the way, if you ever want to see what hell is like take a quiet visit to a slaughterhouse while they are killing cattle, sheep and pigs. Personally I don't think hell will be as bad as that.
