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alicerwhiteley:

There aren’t many things I feel that strongly for, but this is one. However, I’m literally in tears over this video; I just can’t grasp it. Why is our lifestyle built around the torture and death of other living things? Living things that feel and experience the world like us. That scream out in pain and squeal in terror, but can’t do a thing. We’re supposed to be intellectual, caring and insightful beings yet we still believe one of the biggest lies created. That we need meat, that we’re meant to eat this stuff, that this is humane. When did killing become humane? I seriously doubt our ability to move forward away from barbaric behaviour in other areas of life, if we can’t get over and stop this naivety. Our society seems built on the destruction and death of everything around us, yet we continue everyday life like nothing is wrong. How can people seriously still believe the shit that is feed to them, straight out all these meat companies/media scumbag mouths? I might sound like a knob, but I seriously cannot understand how people can watch things like this and keep on eating/using animal products with no emotional attachment.  

Backed SO hard, the fact that anyone can put something in their mouths (behave) and not know/care where it came from is sheer ignorance. I am by no means perfect with my consumption, but I’m happy that I am trying to do better, something that here in the UK, and a lot of the Western world, is sadly not concerned with. 

It’s a shift that can hopefully move for the better with good time, but then again with a culture of TOWIE and Jeremy Kyle praise-givers, I might be wrong. Our parents are often the reason many people don’t quite make that step for a more compassionate/thought-out diet - they were, or were raised by those, of the wartime generation, who went through rationing and times of national poverty, and when that ended - there was a whole new attitude to eating and the rules of food. If you read Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, he begins by talking about his Jewish grandmother, who would pick up her grandchildren to effectively ‘weigh’ them, she never wanted them to go as hungry as she had, and it was extremely heartwarming/moving to read. The generations before us have been raised to ‘eat what they’re given and be grateful’, and with that came routine. Routine breeds habit. Habit says that ‘man was raised to eat meat’, but thats bollocks, and I’m ranting now and sounding like the person I never wanted to be…but again, I chose to give up meat to see if I could, to hush my naysaying parents, and I did it, and over time the things I’d heard as propaganda, become more like standard facts and make simple, (and what should be) common sense. 

You wouldn’t stand for the abuse of a child, could you hear it screaming from pain, so what makes it okay to do it to an animal - it’s cowardice and laziness of man, it’s a domination that actually expresses the total opposite of power. 

Also, it was nice to see a video that didn’t have PETA’s stamp on it, because those guys can suck a fucking fuck. 

Posted 2 months ago with 2 notes