Out and about downtown, I found myself drawn to this demonstration. What is your level of knowledge about the food you eat? Extremely disturbing footage involving animals is being shown on these small screens held by volunteers, one asks me if I’ve ever seen anything like this before.
Unfortunately, I have. I’m all too familiar with the barbaric way we treat our animals for profit. I try to shop cruelty-free and was vegetarian for a good chunk of my life because of images just like these.
Truth.
Sweat dripping down my back and slightly nauseous; I stare at the animals being tortured, while this guy tries to convince me to give up meat consumption again…
It was important at this point, to bring up some of the local animal abuse cases that have made my blood boil in the last little while. For some reason I needed to expand on the negativity and remind him that helping animals goes far beyond simply getting people to stop eating meat.
I hope there are incredible improvements where animal rights are concerned in the very near future. Will I give up meat again? All I know is we need to quickly remedy this disgusting part of our society.
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
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A story.
My grandma and granpa had a bunch of little cute rabbits. Which my grandpa made little houses for them and basically it was a little “rabbit town”, my mother saw that one day there where no more rabits, she asked my gradma where did they go and my grandma told her in heaven. Truth is that heaven was in my mothers stomach. My grandma woul get the rabbit by the head, do a quick snap and the rabbit was dead. But her daughter (my mother) and my uncle where fed and glad to be so. Just a story.
Thank you for sharing 🙂 Maybe you should seriously consider turning that into a children’s bedtime story… Silliness aside my issues are with animals living a terrible quality of life, not with rabbits who have their own town.
And do not un-love me.
Love ya!
I won’t ever un-love you 😉
Forgot.
I also think it was a good post to bring awareness.
Thanks a lot. I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts. Hope you’re enjoying your weekend!
Indeed I am, reading you guys and hopefully a respectuful Exchange of thoughts. Plus I´m excited, on Monday going to see my mother and her new house, she Will put me at work unpaking boxes, moving this here and there and the rest, but it is nice to be with the women who raised me and me helping a little, plus I get to see my dog the Bulldog called Tina, my mother always names her dogs after singers, Tina as in Tina Turner. So the weekeng might be a bit boring, I know the crowd here (not very cool if your surrounded by guys selling drugs and that I have faught with them…. specially one,for too many times, but we get together, again, they do not provide me with anything meaningful or to learn. I know that type of life and better say hello to them, talk a bit of bullshit and out we go each to his own path. My path is now Reading and writing. A bit lonely sometimes, or a lot of times. But better this staying sober tan going back to my old ways. And I´m 36! So not that old, but it feels like I have, actually it doesn´t feel since I truly experience some nasty things. Army days, selling drug days, jail, and the list Will go on. I´m fine now with me and working on me.
Sorry Frances for the long comment.
Glad to hear you’re having a good weekend 🙂 I think it’s very sweet you’re taking time to help your mom get settled into her knew home. I love that she named her dog after Tina Turner! You should totally share some pics of Tina. It comes across in your writing that you have lived through a lot. Maybe I’m wrong here, but I feel like you still have so much more to say…
I do have to share pictures of Tina the Turrrrner!
I also have lived some abnormal things, I did choose it though, from the army to getting deployed to be a “gánster” selling drugs to be homeless, the list will bother you. Now I barely go out, I write and read and write and read and obviously my familly that I put way second in my life they are now priority numbeer one. I´ll always be a mammas boy, and I try hard to help her out, first is me being sober and I am, actually that I think it takes more balls than a firefight, tough tough, just mental toughness.
And appreciate your last words ” I feel like you have still have so much more to say….” Yes mam, that was quite the encouragement, so thanks. Working on it..
You’re welcome. Have fun with your mom and Tina!
touches compassion
for all living beings 🙂
Thank you! More compassion is always a good thing 🙂
I wonder who paid these people to share their concerns. That is, if it is their concern or is the money they make is more important. You should be required to show us who you are as a protestor. Now I have said my peace. I respect your position no matter where you stand. That is my support of you.
Thank you for this honest comment John! Your support and respect mean so much to me. You are always welcome to be truthful here.
I am here for you.
Your presence is needed. I am here for you too.
I try to take a Native American view of meat in that don’t lose respect for the animal’s life. It would be better if I could raise my own & ensure that the animal has a good life & only one bad minute at the end & that it doesn’t suffer when that life is taken. Being raised around beef cattle we treated them like pets right up to last moment when the time came to dispatch one it never know what happened. Basically, we did our best to make sure it died happy which all that any living creature can hope for.
Thank you very much Lloyd! You have touched on so many important points here. Respect for the animal’s life, making sure they are well taken care of and happy. It all seems so basic to anyone who is an animal lover and it’s tragic to watch things move in the opposite direction.
These things have always been a problem but it’s the corporate farms and ranches that gave it the scale it has today. A farmer or rancher bonds with his animals but the corporation bonds with no one.
Great quote, but how few of us, as nations, could be proud.
Thank you! So sad but true. I really hope we can change this…
Great post
Thought-provoking
Thank you Luisa! Much appreciated 🙂
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A good story to make one think.
So happy I didn’t miss this.
Thank you for this encouraging comment Andrew. I’m happy you didn’t miss it too 🙂 Wishing you a wonderful weekend!
Great post, and indeed, we have a real problem regarding animal cruelty. I can’t really say I got the answer for that but it really needs some solutions. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you for reading! Hopefully through continuing to think and talk about it, we will find a way to provoke some positive change 🙂