While recently discussing the inherent cruelty of the meat-eating & milk-drinking lifestyle (along with the cruelty-free vegan alternative) I once again heard a common argument:

“Don’t blame me. I didn’t kill anyone. They were already dead when I bought them and they were already dead when I ate them.”

Well, as logical as this argument sounds, it is important for me to inform all of you believing similarly that NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. For the fact of the matter is: even though you don’t do the actual killing, you are indeed completely responsible for those deaths and the immense suffering that preceded them.

Indeed, the only reason that billions of farmed animals still die horrible, violent deaths years before their natural ones is because meat-eaters are paying butchers to confine & murder them. The only reason that milk cows cry out in real agony every day is because milk-drinkers are paying dairy farmers to mutilate & enslave them (and ultimately murder them as well).

So do what you will, my Friends. Go on eating meat and drinking milk if you “must” … God knows I can’t stop you (and God knows I will continue to Love you unconditionally even if you do).

Just be sure while doing so to have the courage & the integrity to look the Truth in the eye and accept the FACT that it is YOU who take those baby cows from their mothers; that it is YOU who imprison them — often in tightly cramped and disgustingly filthy conditions; that it is YOU who refuse to let them run in the fields and play in the sun; that it is YOU who have their testicles cut off & their teeth sheared & their tails docked & their beaks burned to stubs (all without anesthesia); that is is YOU who make them live in their own filth; that it is YOU who refused to show them any Kindness or mercy during their dark & frightened lives, and that it is YOU who have them brutally murdered — YOU who have them knocked only partially unconscious before they are strung up to have their throats slit, their skin scalded, their skin flayed and their bodies dismembered; all in their innocent adolescence … all so that YOU can have a snack.

(inspired by Emma Murphy)

 

Filed under: Sanctifying Sentience by Scaughdt