THE MEAL TIME SWITCH OFF

I am sure that meat eaters - people who eat their fellow creatures - KNOW that animals and birds are living sentient creatures who are first cruelly tortured and slaughtered before they become that "food" upon the plate.

But somehow at meal times normally civilised people only see and taste the herbed or spiced pieces of food called "meat".  I call it The Meal Time Switch Off. 

Terrified sheep console each other before having throats cut and being hung upside down

They don't think of it as a dead body part, a piece of what was once an animal like themselves. They do not hear or remember moral objections. Their parents ate birds and other animals, everybody else did - so they say it's normal. They think it bad manners to talk about how "meat" is killed and can get quite angry if one persists on the subject.

Of course, they do not have to kill the "meat" and perhaps have never ever visited those sealed horrific slaughterhouses where murder is committed factory-style every day. They do not hear the animals' fear, smell the blood, see the hell it is. They do not see bodies cut into pieces by cold hearted humans and rivers of blood flowing like streams.

They probably also do not want to hear of other forms of cruelty - like the dissection of animals in school biology classes, universities and laboratories;  animal sports like stabbing young bulls with spears, cutting off their tails and ears while still alive and burning their heads off; how calves are murdered at birth because the farmer wants the mothers' milk; the torture of live export animals and how cattle are grossly maimed in Muslim lands. 

ALL Animals have intelligence and feelings like us.They are fellow beings sharing this planet with us. To kill and eat them is immoral and barbaric.

There are many many other types of cruel animal torture - hundreds - mostly associated with the meat and dairy industries.

People don't want to know. They will eat their steak or burger and not give it a thought. 

But because they don't want to know does not mean they don't know.

And because something has always been done before does not make it right.

Hopefully a day will come when people will face the reality of what monsters we really are - and try to remedy that fact.

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