This beautiful cow is no different from your dog
or your cat. She feels and loves just as you know your pet does; she doesn’t
want to feel pain and avoids any kind of suffering just as you also know your pet
does. But instead, you protect your dog
-or cat-, you feed them, you love them, you play with them; you give them any
kind of attention all of that while, at the same time, you are paying someone
to torture, rape and murder a large quantity of those other beings. When did we
learn that a dog’s life is more valuable than a pig’s? Even so that we have built ANIMAL SHELTERS where
homeless dogs and cats are taken care of and SLAUGHTERHOUSES where pigs, chickens,
cows and bulls are being murdered? Where is the logic in this system?
We, humans, are compassionate animals which
mean that we are capable of feeling sympathy and sorrow for another being who
is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the
suffering. We have all experienced that when we see an injured dog alongside of
the road fighting for its life having nowhere else to go. When we are little we
all have our compassion full, whole, strong… that’s why we always see little
kids somehow trying to protect all kind of animals; for them, all animals are
his/her friends. As we grow older our compassion fractures: we are taught which
animals to love and which animals to torture. We learn that dogs and cats are
worth our attention, money and love while we turn our heads away of the cows
that are being raped year after year, the pigs that are being dismembered without
anesthesia and the chickens that are being brutally debeaked.
Every animal in this planet loves, feels and
has the same purpose in life: to survive; none of them wants to be killed and
tortured. Consider putting yourself into the cow, chicken or pig position and
try to realize the hell any of those beings are confined to live just by
default, just because people have been programed to look away and not to
care. NOTHING in this world, and I repeat:
NOTHING is worth the suffering of another being. And remember that peace begins at the dinner
table.
