Earthlings please read and then watch
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought:In their behaviour towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with another species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principal that might is right
Isaac Bashevis Singer, From the book Enemies: A Love Story
I think this sums up why I am vegetarian. It’s the objectification of animals that I can’t stand. And the way post industrialised society has turned farming of animals into the ‘manufacturing’ of animals. And it’s not just the way we treat animals that makes me so sad and disappointed: it’s air pollution, tree cutting, landfill, waste, it’s the whole lack of respect for the Earth that houses and sustains us.
I don’t want to be a food fascist and so I don’t tell people what to eat. In fact, I’m often subjected to unwelcome and intrusive arguments and demands about what I should eat from people who have assumed my reasons for vegetarianism. I do, however attempt to make people aware about what they are eating and the history of their food. Animal products didn’t just spring into being fully packaged. That was patronising right? Well, this statement may as well be applied so some of my friends, who do not know where their food comes from. Who do not know that, ‘battery farming’ isn’t just confined to chickens, or cows, and who are not aware of the sheer level of exploitation of animals for our connivance and for profit, or the incredible wastage from the excess of animals killed. Some of my friends are very ignorant of what happens and some are less so and either, don’t care or bury their heads in the sand. Now that does annoy me. I can’t stand people who don’t want to know the history of their food because it is unpleasant for them. I simply can not respect people who deny to themselves the fact that buying these products makes them complicit in the whole process.
I almost feel like apologising for the moral lecture/rant because I try to leave people be. But the linked film below has brought tears from anger to me, that I feel so hostile right now.
‘Earthlings’ narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, is a propagandistic film but it is also true. It is not an easy film to watch.
http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/earthlings.htm
Isaac Bashevis Singer, From the book Enemies: A Love Story
I think this sums up why I am vegetarian. It’s the objectification of animals that I can’t stand. And the way post industrialised society has turned farming of animals into the ‘manufacturing’ of animals. And it’s not just the way we treat animals that makes me so sad and disappointed: it’s air pollution, tree cutting, landfill, waste, it’s the whole lack of respect for the Earth that houses and sustains us.
I don’t want to be a food fascist and so I don’t tell people what to eat. In fact, I’m often subjected to unwelcome and intrusive arguments and demands about what I should eat from people who have assumed my reasons for vegetarianism. I do, however attempt to make people aware about what they are eating and the history of their food. Animal products didn’t just spring into being fully packaged. That was patronising right? Well, this statement may as well be applied so some of my friends, who do not know where their food comes from. Who do not know that, ‘battery farming’ isn’t just confined to chickens, or cows, and who are not aware of the sheer level of exploitation of animals for our connivance and for profit, or the incredible wastage from the excess of animals killed. Some of my friends are very ignorant of what happens and some are less so and either, don’t care or bury their heads in the sand. Now that does annoy me. I can’t stand people who don’t want to know the history of their food because it is unpleasant for them. I simply can not respect people who deny to themselves the fact that buying these products makes them complicit in the whole process.
I almost feel like apologising for the moral lecture/rant because I try to leave people be. But the linked film below has brought tears from anger to me, that I feel so hostile right now.
‘Earthlings’ narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, is a propagandistic film but it is also true. It is not an easy film to watch.
http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/earthlings.htm