It hurts!
Some days it’s harder to believe in the good in people then on others. Today is one of them.
“Surely, if slauftherhauses had glass walls, would not all of us be vegetarians? But slaughterhouses do not have glass walls. The architecture of slaughter is opaque, designed in the interest of denial to insure that we will not see even if we wanted to look. And who wants to look?”
I don’t know why it happend, but today I had an opportunity to look. I didn’t want to, I didn’t like to, but I had the impression to have some obligation, to be responsible. And so I forced myself to look, to watch for over 30 full minutes.
“This film shows that ordinary human beings (nat a few exceptionally cruel or heartless humans, but the overwhelming majority of people), take an active part in qcquiesce in, and allow their taxes to pay for practives that require the sacrifice of the most important interests of members of other species, in prder tp promote the most trivial interests of our own species”
I don’t remember any time passing by that slowly. I have watched, forced myself to. I have watched, I have suffered, I have cried, I have even almost puked.
Several monthes ago I decided for my life that I do not want to deny, I do not want to look away, I do not want to ignore – no matter what is wrong! I do not want to oversee discrimination, racism, sexism, or any other violation of others rights. Till today for me “others rights” was equal to “human rights”. Now I see things differently. Now I think every earthling has certain rights. Of course we will have to kill, of course we will have to eat, of course we will (have to) rule the earth. But still, there are other creatures on this planet, other earthlings – treating them the way we do, is wrong – at least if I force myself to look and deny to ignore I feel it – deep in my heart. It hurts!
For me, and my life, I have decided to not ignore things that hurt me inside of me. I will listen closly, so now it is up to me to take action. Now knowing about all these aweful things, I will adopt, change my behavior towards these animals. I’m not sure what action this will be, I have to think about it! I’ll tell you as soon as I know. In the meantime it’s up to you to figure out, what you think, if you think you should take action! It’s all up to you!
Never forget: Everytime you pruchase something – you ask the producer to produce this very same product exactly the same way again!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6361872964130308142
It hurts!