Letter to thousands of nonhuman animals
Yesterday I came across a beautiful letter of apology that was written to the thousands of nonhuman animals who had suffered and died to satisfy one man’s appetite for animal foods.
Dear thousands of cows, chickens, fish, shrimp, pigs and insects,
I paid someone to hold you captive in tight quarters. To remove your genitals, your beaks, your tails and to brand you, all while wide awake and without anesthesia. To forcibly impregnate you and keep you that way all your life. I paid them to remove you from your children and from your parents at birth. And finally to kill you. I paid them to treat you as a commodity, a slave, as an object that existed only for my benefit. As if you could not suffer, or as if it didn’t matter if you could or not. All of this when it was unnecessary to do so. I did this solely for my own pleasures. A tasty meal, a full belly. You gave me comfort, you gave me a way to fit in with others and with the crowd. You gave me a center piece around which I and my family could celebrate. You were there to fill an empty space when I had a longing that I didn’t know how to fix. You made me feel safe. I know you can’t answer me directly, but I want to make this right. I feel I do not yet understand how to do this fully. Until then I will do what I can.
I love you,
Eric
October 6th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Great find! We can only hope that eventually everyone will find their way to the same understanding Eric now has.
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November 15th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
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February 3rd, 2010 at 7:31 pm
You are aware that it is entirely possible to gain sustenance from an animal, while ensuring that it does not suffer, and also ensuring that it’s loved and cared for properly during it’s life, yes?
Additionally, I’m guessing that your knowledgeable to the fact that plant life exists in the same manner that animal life exists. Plants breath, breed, require air and food to survive, and also respond to emotion. They also bleed, starve, drown, and die, just like animals.
But it’s ok to grow acres and acres of crops, with the sole purpose being to chop it down with massive machinery, and then cut it into to tiny pieces.
If mass production and slaughter of plant life is ok simply because you can’t hear plants scream, and can’t measure the pain they’re in based on physiological data when their killed, then put a mussel on cows and stop being a hypocrite.
Don’t make omnivores look bad, just because you’re not in tune enough with nature and plant life to recognize it’s pain.
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February 11th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
I come across these same stale arguments from omnivores all the time. On the assumption that other omnis may be reading this let me once again highlight the flaws:
1. Whether or not it is possible to raise & kill animals without suffering, that is NOT what is happening in the meat industry today. The suffering animals undergo to prodice meat, eggs, dairy is immense and inexcusable. It is delusional to pretend that the meat you eat came from “loved and cared for” animals.
2. Plants do not have nervous systems or brains. But even if they could feel pain, the number of plants killed to produce a meat based diet is many times larger than the number killed for a vegan diet. The animals must produce and maintain bones, fur, ears, colon, blood, lungs, tendons, and especially metabolic processes; these all require plant food and as far as I know no human eats them. We only consume the muscles which represent only a small part of the plants that the animal ate.
I always hope these bankrups old arguments will fade away but people seem to cling to them. Not sure why. As a denial mechanism maybe?
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March 22nd, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Hello Ed,
Thanks for the nice reply above.I had almost a same argument from a friend! she was telling me that milk and water are the only two things that we get without torturing any creature! I send her videos, articles….. but she concluded that she will continue to have milk(she is Non-Veg still, but would like to become a Vegetarian someday but not a Vegan)!
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