Vegans for World Peace

Our food system is inefficient, cruel and we are wasting our resources. We will run out of clean water, deplete the soil of nutrients and collapse the ecosystem. We are destroying the tropical rainforest, the lungs of the planet, and home to millions (if not trillions) of species of life forms that took millions of years of evolution to create. We are growing food on this land to feed the animals we eat (for the most part.) We are creating mass extinction and we are not immune to extinction ourselves as we are dealing in a land of finite resources. Humans are starving right now because we choose to feed their food to the animals we eat. Approx. 50,000 litres of drinking water goes into producing 1 kilo of beef or a gallon of milk. It takes approximately 10 times more grain to feed a "food" animal to eat it than it does to just feed the grain directly to the human being. We can feed 7 billion humans much more efficiently than 100 billion or more land animals. And we are ignoring our moral obligation to protect innocent animals and people who cannot protect themselves. Yes animals in the wild eat flesh but they do not breed in captivity and confine their prey to spaces indoors without space enough to turn around or be comfortable at all during the entire life. These animals are living a life of torture. No wild animal is so cruel to abuse, torture, confine, neglect, overcrowd, beat, cram in cages so small they never move, allow them no exercise, no sunshine, EVER, no movement even! Cut up into pieces while conscious, skin them alive, boil alive, etc etc etc This is common the world over. 100 billion a year we slaughter!!!!! and we kill another 1-3 trillion in the oceans. Non human animals are not capable of cultivating plant crops, however we are. We do not need animal products to survive. Some animals do need other animals to survive we are not one of them - many have proven this. Our intestines are long like herbivores and we have a back up emergency system we are abusing. Animal protein and fat creates disease in our body where plant food does not. We can derive all we need from plants and bacteria, rather than have the animals process this for us. If we focus on feeding the people directly we stop the torture and slaughter. If you eat meat dairy or eggs and you watch how the pigs, cows, chickens, farmed fish etc live you, will see they suffer immensely. When we take from the oceans we risk the lives of the sharks and whales who are essential to the ocean ecosystem. We need to keep it in balance. And the taste for flesh is not worth mass suffering beyond comprehension. We can learn to eat the plants. If you don't have the stomach to watch these videos on how the "food" animals live - it is because you already know it is creating suffering for them. Please stop supporting animal cruelty immediately! We can eat if we grow food for us rather than the animals we breed into existence to consume. We threaten the wildlife when we farm the land to grow the animal food. There is enough food for everyone but not enough to feed and care properly for so many animals! Every social issue is solved by going to a plant based diet and provides a tangible way of knowing who is cruel and who believes all life is sacred. The torture can stop but it takes each and every one of us to make it happen. Violence is a choice. Please stop contributing to lifetimes of starvation, torture, confinement, abuse, and slaughter. Please stop! Let us instead worship all life, not just our own. Let's love and worship instead of destroy, torture, and exploit ok?! Please! We can do this! And we will be better for it!

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Killers abound

To wake up and realize you are surrounded by 98% of the population believing its a-ok to torture and kill, confine and create so much suffering, is a very scary realization.  To find out 60 billion animals a year are held captive, tortured, abused, denied freedom of most basic needs like movement, is so traumatic you can't even comprehend it.  To know that another 60 billion are alive and in pain, distress and constant torture is scarier than any horror film on tv.  No one could dream up a more horrific storyline if they tried.  No wonder I have felt alone all my life.  Like a stranger in a strange land.  I do not want to admit my family, friends, co-workers etc are all torturers and killers but they are. I am.  I have been a part of the system i believed in.  I actually believed my food was properly treated, living somewhere free of pain (relatively) the way we all do, and that one day it had a very peaceful quick exit.  I have found it to be otherwise.  Extremely otherwise. I cannot enable this any longer.  I will speak up and encourage everyone please do the same.  And now that i realize how badly the animals are treated i realize there is not really humane farming.  the farmer must hate the animal to kill it.  we keep our hate alive by treating it worse as we have done to feed the masses.  we have denied the animal everything that is his/ hers.  We have violated these animals. and so it occurs to me that this is the height of the way of the hunter.  a hunter so good they have bred the animal, held it captive, held it so captive it cannot even move ever, then kill it.  that hunter has refined his practice to an all time high.  and at the extreme you pollute the water and run out of food to feed the animals you eat and you collapse the eco system and starve.  a gatherer sustains.  we are seeing the extremes now and the hunters will die off as a matter of principle.  they are violent.  violence is never the right way ever.  thou shall not kill. killing is wrong you just don't do it.  and to torture, you don't do it.  to intentionally create suffering for another living being will only create suffering for the deliverer. its a karmic link. To see your fellows create suffering for themselves and the animals is heart breaking to say the least.  I long to live on a peaceful planet.  A planet with humans who respect life, respect themselves, respect each other.  We have just 2% of our population living respectfully and the others have violated the basics.  They walk around in confusion and madness amongst the sickness every day.  When will we wake up?  When will we see the error of our ways?  Humans are too greedy to farm animals morally.  They have abused the animals in the name of profit and greed and "taste."  Humans have been given the earth and look at what we have done with it. We face global water crisis and pollution and eventually starvation with our chosen path.  The violence will end whether we choose to end it or not.  Violence is not acceptable behaviour.  Not at home, not at school, not at work, not at a factory farm.  Violence and murder is for uncivilized nations.  A civilization so uneducated they know not what they do.  Violence is sickness.  Murder is madness.  We know better now.  We can build a brighter future.  A sustainable future.  A happy planet.  We can do this! it can't be any worse than what we have done so far with constant war. if we are at war with our food, the source of our being, how can we not be at war with everything else?
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