I’m curious — Why do you give thanks for engaging in a practice that causes so much suffering? Why do you give thanks for engaging a cruelty-laden choice that is completely unnecessary to make? Why do you give thanks for a decision that flows completely contrary to your own values of justice & decency? Why do you give thanks for an act that keeps you from becoming the Kind & Caring person you truly want to be – indeed, the Kind & Caring person you truly already are?

Yes, several tribes of Native Americans did give thanks for the animals they killed – and maybe you find those expressions of humble gratitude to be noble ones, and yet you are in all likelihood not a member of any of those tribes … And even if you are a member of one of those tribes, if you have access to any equipment that allows you to read this post, then you clearly do not need to kill animals to survive.

In closing, it is not in any way “spiritually evolved” to thank God (or “the Great Spirit”, or Allah, or Life, or “the Universe”) for providing sustenance that comes from tremendous arrogance and brutal violence. Indeed, we can only be truly “spiritually evolved” when we first realize that it is not at all necessary to sustain our own lives at the expense of the lives of others — and then when we act accordingly.

The animals that you are consuming don’t need your thanks or your “honor”, my Friends … They need you to stop killing & consuming them.

 

Current status of this Myth: Confuted
Justification it provides for eating animals: NONE

“Animals do not ‘give’ their lives to us, as the sugar-coated lie would have it. No, we take their lives. They struggle and fight to the very last breath, just as we would if we were in their place.” ~ John Robbins

Filed under: Minimizing the Myths of Meat by Scaughdt