if we shared the planet with our animals effectively and chose not to slaughter them we could enjoy a symbiotic relationship with them. If one could afford to provide for a cow for its entire lifetime without sending it for slaughter then consuming the excess milk during the natural reproductive cycle of the animal would likely be a great balance. It would not be cost effective for business, and controlling the population would result in separating the animals, but likely a system could be worked out such that the animals rights were not violated in any way yet humans could enjoy milk from time to time. the animals have enough to share but to confine them and violate them to take it then slaughter them when you are done with them is not a respectful exchange. and neither is raping the animal or taking its babies and putting them on a tether for their lifetime or in a crate so they never walk. when the animal has died of old age, perhaps its skin could be useful, can the meat be eaten at all? if it has been in an environment that is free of toxins perhaps it could be enjoyed at that time but one would have to know when the animal will die. i knew when my dog was going to die i could just tell because i was so in tune with the animals rythm and breathing to know as the time drew near.
as for the chickens same thing, though they live a long life and only produce eggs for a short time, so again, not cost effective business to provide for the animal for its lifetime. so how tasty are those eggs? tasty enough to take care of the animal for 30 years? maybe not worth the respect required for the exchange. the animal can be eaten when it dies of natural causes in a clean environment.
salmon go upstream and jump out of the water and die, why don't we collect them and eat them then?
and the pigs, well they are darn cute and would provide hours of entertainment watching them frolic and run and play. feeding them? and other than bacon what purpose do they serve? i am sure they could be useful somehow even if just as a pet. no more BLT's though. not unless the animal is healthy enough to eat when it dies of natural causes.
goats are cute, keep the grass cut and can give you some milk from time to time.
sheep provide wool if they shed it naturally that seems respectful enough.
animal products can be included respectfully, but they certainly have not been in our time. we have violated the animals rights far too long. they will share with us but we steal from them. we take without permission, abuse them, violate them, beat them, torture them, confine them to the equivalent of six years in an airplane seat without relief. come on people! lets learn to love. really love people. love and respect all life forms. please.
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!
