Monday, September 29, 2008

Double Standards...........

I am an animal lover, in fact I adore all animals, and because of this deep intrinsic love for them I do not eat them, drink their milk or eat their eggs as to do so would make me a hypocrite. I have been called a fanatic, weird, obsessed and plenty of other things to, I have been attacked on many occasions by people who for some bizarre reason feel that because I do not eat meat threatens them in some way, they have to tell me in no uncertain terms that 'they cannot live without their meat' actually they can! They would survive just fine. I cannot see why anyone who calls themselves an 'animal lover' could eat the flesh of an animal or is it that they simply prefer some animals more than others? I had a conversation the other day where the person I was with was telling me how much they love animals at the same time they were stuffing the body of a murdered animal into their mouth, yes I could see how much animals meant to them!

All farm animals are treated in barbaric and horrific ways to feed the greedy millions who are addicted to their flesh, milk and eggs, no one that eats these products really cares about how these precious creatures are treated as long as they can sink their teeth into their next piece of steak.

How would you feel having to line up and watch in terror as those in front of you are slaughtered in cold blood right before your eyes, you stand there trembling knowing that every second it is getting closer to your death. If you are capable of eating the meat of these animals then you ought to be able to kill it for yourself, see the fear and feel the terror as you take the life of a gentle innocent animal so you can stuff your face with the flesh of another living being. Most meat eaters will not listen to the acts surrounding where their dinner comes from, it is usually a case of out of sight out of mind, which to me is diabolical, if you are going to survive on the bodies of others you ought to know what they have to go through so you can have you daily fix, but how many would do that? What about raising and killing your own meat? I have asked this question to many people and the answer is normally the same, I could not eat it if I had to kill it, or that they could not kill anything, then how is it then alright to eat something someone else has killed for you, as I said double standards.

What the meat eating public like to shield themselves from is that all the animals that they eat have feelings, that they love and that they have deep and loving relationships when left to live in their natural habitat without the bloodthirsty humans controlling their lives to feed their ever increasing waistlines. Chickens make fabulous pets, they love to sit on your lap and to scratch around the garden looking for worms, they will run to greet their owners just like a dog, oh but wait they are not as cute, can't catch a ball, why would you want a chicken as a pet? They are much better on a plate, after of course being kept in a cage that in most case they cannot even turn around, having their beak cut off, force fed growth hormones which of course sees them become crippled with arthritis, have no feathers, can't walk and never see the sun, you can use your imagination on how the rest of the animals are mistreated.

I cannot for one second understand how any educated person can allow this to continue let alone eat the end results of these tortured beings..................

2 comments:

Mandi said...

Gem....you gotta chill man....I know and understand exactly how you feel but you should stop eating yourself up about it ( no pun intended) you are going to make yourself ill if You get into it too much...YOU will never change peoples minds...you even learnt it for yourself..you developed your own awareness tho I do think you feel a little extreme sometimes...however you are are only doing what comes from your kind heart...all the while man as a whole continue to justify war, guns, street killing within their gangs, taking over countries, each other in towns and cities etc, the animals are last on the agenda....people love their pets yes, it helps them feel they are bringing the nuturing kind and loving aspect out of them selves...bur pet owners are responsable for just the same amount of animal killings...what do they think is in tins of dog nd cat food...rice and veg..no wheat and animals of varying types...so even the most perfect of animal lovers who dont eat meat will contribute to suffering if they have either cat or dogs...now get them to give up their pets for the sake of animal suffering and you will have a mighty fight on your hands...i agree that if one wants to eat it then one goes kill it...but even that can be done in the most inhumane barbaric ways anyway....look at china and japan...they eat what they kill usually by choosing that cuddly little dog behind that wire cage and you would not want to see how that is done...the person who chose the animal knows and it doesn't bother them..so all theory go out the window in my book....I think it okay to eat eggs...more so if one can get your own chooks and even if they are proper free range cos that helps in my opinion to develope a better understanding of egg productionand had changed people s attitude to how they are produced so something good has come for some after a long time...better late than never...you will never get westernised people to stop eating meat...and for the less privelaged nations it is a necessaty, so there it is now stop worrying and carry on doing what is right for you, others will follow if it be in their hearts, they cannot be told or bullyied, all that does is put them on the defensive....

hope you are okay and your leg is better, and the frog found a new home and blossom is healthy whtevere she is eating and Eric ic enjoying work and well everything...toodleooo

Gemel said...

Thanks for you comments Mandi, like me you have your views, I do not bully anyone however I was simply writting my views on my page, I know that many people may not like like what they read although it was not direccted at anyone......

Blossom is fine, and so is Eric, the leg is pretty much back to normal just a bit weak xx