| When you were a child and you heard things from "grown-ups" that you didn't understand, you probably trusted that they had the answers, that you were being told these things from people who actually understood and had accurate explanations of what they were saying. For example when you found out "where meat came from" and couldn't believe that we humans kill the other animals and that's where we get our food, but perhaps you were told "that's what they're for - that's what animals were put here for". You may have been given a vague religious explanation. Maybe you still didn't understand, and maybe you felt sad, but you probably eventually trusted that the grown-ups were right, and that you would understand when you were older. But, did you ever really get those answers, or did you just stop asking questions, stop feeling? That's the same thing that the "grown-ups" had done, and in reality there never was a good explanation to give. Even if people genuinely believe based on any religion that they should eat other animals, I doubt that it's fear that they'll be struck down I doubt that's what stops them from giving up meat. It's selfishness. If a person wants to choose a belief and they don't base their belief on compassion, they shouldn't be given the "compassion" to have the freedom to act on their belief. Most humans complain about life when it becomes dull, when they're running low on money, or when they don't feel loved or appreciated. Even in these situations, most of these people have things infinitely better than the animals they enslave, torture, slaughter, and eat. Did you know that one of the strongest drives in nearly every animal species is to play? See, animals want a full life, they can appreciate a full life, but instead these animals have no life at all, unless it serves humans - and in such a base way as meat, and in the case of battery farm, money. It's wrong, and for people who don't believe me, they should ask themselves if they really want the real answers - the ones to the questions they may have asked as children - or if they simply refuse to do what is right if it means changing. If they do want to truly know what they should do and they look with any compassion they'll realize very soon that animals cannot continue to be treated as they are. If, however, they simply don't care or won't see, it's the treatment of humans that must change - and they must not be allowed to make this choice any longer. |
Animal Rights
