"But they are just animals!"
Seriously it is the most frustrating thing when people cannot see that animals also have a right on this earth and that they are equally and sometimes even more superior than humans...now due to the fact of my constant confusion keeping me up at night i decided to figure out where all this - "I'm better than animals", bull shit, comes from ( i apologise for my crude language).
Ignorance has been around for years and in fact it was even worse in the past...so i decided to start there. The past....
What in the past allowed us to think that we are superior to animals? Now i hope you all don't take offence but i decided to pry into religion because A LOT of peoples strong mind sets have been formed due to religion, so yup that where i started.
Hindu's are a prime example - still today Hindu's that follow the tantra way of life sacrifice animals for the gods to get their blessing...keep in mind these people are far and few between as this is a small section of the Hindu's religion but still...why on earth would you hold an animal down and ritualistically kill it and enjoy it...WTF...is there something wrong with these killers, the simple answer to this is a no brainer - YES!
In fact there was inscriptions from the Gutpa period telling people that they had to bring animals to the king for sacrifice...they got rewarded for it!!!!
So to able to sacrifice an animal you must think that you are higher than it? Whether the kings or gods told you that animal sacrifice is good at the end of the day you personally had to hold down the animal and kill it whilst celebrating as its blood is pouring down onto the floor....if that's not enough sometimes they even paint themselves with the blood! Sicko's - i think yes.
Christians of the Greek inheritance used to kill oxes during Dipolieia ( a certain festival)....the reason being....hunters used to feel bad about killing another living being for food so they killed one at a festival with other people to not feel so bad about it....HELLO...what kind of sense does that make?
Ok so lets drop religion for a bit...
What about the idea that we are on top of the food chain....that can cause some major ego issues in the meat eating authority's of today -
Well here's a news flash we have screwed up our food chain BIG TIME so don't go crying about how you are on top of the food chain when with the very small authority that you had, you have managed to ruin every one's lives...seriously....the world is in chaos when it comes to starvation and you know why....the food chains managing director decided to go against what nature does and try his own way...WHY? I'll tell you why...
By cutting down rain forests for space for cattle you have totally screwed up bio-diversity, those frogs and insects that have lost their homes have also lost their lives and that doesn't just make us short of a couple of frogs, no, it cuts down biodiversity which we need in order to live...doesn't anyone get bothered that when a person cuts down a tree they are actually taking away some of your breath of life...yup well Macdonalds have made the decision to have you die with out any oxygen to your lungs but for the life you had ( which with this much damage being done, it won't be that long) you were stuffed full with juicy bloody flesh...mmm...
You know whats also stupid...if we cut down the amount of animals we produce for meat eaters we can actually feed millions of starving HUMANS...
But on the other hand if we keep that amount of cattle there, they will actually eat all the way through our top soil....and for those who say ( wah wah I'm on top of the food chain) if they eat away our topsoil..NOTHING WILL GROW! So say goodbye to crops and to grass for the new unhappy cattle, it'll all be barren with no nutrients....just like the desert sand...still enjoying your theory?
Right so lets sum this up.....
TO THOSE WHO THINK THEY ARE SUPERIOR TO ANIMALS :
RELIGIOUSLY THE WORLD HAS ADVANCED, HARDLY NO ONE SACRIFICE'S ANIMALS AND IF THEY DO THEY ARE CONSIDERED BARBARIC IN THE WESTERN WORLD, I WOULD KNOW THEY DO IT IN MY COUNTRY AND THE AMOUNT OF COMPLAINTS THAT FOLLOW IS HUGE.
ECOLOGICALLY, WE ARE NOT ON TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN FOR THE FOOD CHAIN NEEDS ALL FOOD TO BE ABLE TO RUN SMOOTHLY THEREFORE WE ARE EQUALLY NEEDED, IF WE WERE ON TOP WE WOULD BE ABLE TO SURVIVE QUITE HAPPILY ON OUR OWN LIL MISSION WITH OUT THE FROGGIES.
SO MY SENTIMENT IS THIS -
YOU THINK YOU ARE SUPERIOR, FINE, YOU CAN GO ON TRYING TO BELIEVE THAT BUT BELIEVE YOU ME, YOU WILL FAIL HORRIBLY...AND YOU WILL END US ALL.
Every living being should have a beautiful, healthy, happy life....that's humans, dogs, cats, dolphins, fish, frogs, cows, pigs, rats, rabbits, chickens....and i can go on for hours.
Share the love and land and we will all benefit!
Kindness and so much Hope that I'm gonna pop.
Kelly-Leigh
P.S. Go Vegan :)