TEACH OUR KIDS COMPASSION

Our attitude to animals is greatly determined when we are children - by our parents, our environment and how people around us regard Nature and the environment.

Most meat eating parents perhaps never think it is wrong to kill and eat our fellow animals and the many other creatures in this world. From birth children are given meat to eat. Children have no choice.

It might never occur to parents that it would be good to teach their children to be vegetarian even though they the parents can not.

Many people are ruled by misguided religious dogma that it is right to hunt and kill or by tradition or by incorrect medical beliefs that eating meat is essential.

Nowadays there is officially no need to eat meat. In fact numerous organisations, including the World Health Organisation, state it is unhealthy and warn people to at least eat far less of it.

Protein is provided by many other natural sources. Yet we slaughter many many billions of animals to provide something we don't even need.

Major religions  don't object to the killing of animals and even do it themselves for sacrifices. Religions seem concerned only with man rather than including the environment and our moral responsibilities to the many other inhabitants on this planet.

It would be so nice for future generations of all species if young people were encouraged now at school to observe the morality of meat and to consider the many implications of the mass carnage that takes place daily. Animals are treated cruelly, tortured, savagely slaughtered.

There is also the very serious matter of the enormous pollution and the water shortage that stock farming causes worldwide and the many thousands of people starving because it.

If we reduced world meat production by just 10 per cent it would feed some 100 million people because they would not have to give their crops to feed cattle. Not having meat could be very good news for people and the environment.

But talk and prayer is not enough. It needs action and one important action could be to enlighten our children to have compassion for all animals, to respect them and their right to live - to shun acts of animal cruelty and put the dignity of man and his fellow animals above the making of money, politics and savagery.

There are more than 700 million compassionate vegetarians in the world.

 Let's make it 7 billion

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