Let’s connect with the animals
We pet dogs, cuddle kittens and many of us have very close relationships with animals - simultaneously meat consumption continues to rise as we keep eating a certain species of animals that we for several reasons don't have the same connection with.
What if we all really care for animals? What if all the negative ways we treat them is only a symptom of this lack of connection?
Let's do an experiment - what if we look past all of our conditioning, all the things we've learned from society, our parents and friends. Throw it all out the window.... good.
Now, let's get closer, intimate and attentive; we are so distanced from the food we consume.
Make it your focus to relate by observing the innocence, beauty, and the LIFE within all animals, please do so by watching the short video down below.
Watch the video on DTube
Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it «my appetite is more important than your suffering» - Moby
The distinction between pets and food is a very culturally conditioned one. I mean, certain animals that we consider pets, are readily eaten in some other cultures, like guinea pigs or dogs. There might be examples of the opposite as well, I just cannot think of any right now.
This. I think this is issue is a great example showing how the masses of people follow the crowd and don't think for themselves.
This is the first thing i can think off. Everyone needs to make his own desicions.
It's been great to hear about this lifestyle from you the past few days man. Cheers :)
I think about this all of the time and have no answers. But I'm trying to get better about activism and trying to learn how to get my points across more clearly, while showing respect for others (that may be the hardest part lol). I'm starting to read some literature on it - here's the list I'm going to start with...
http://www.theveganjunction.com/15-top-animal-rights-books-to-read/
nice post
I'm thinking of bringing a pig (some that will not grow very big) to live with us as a pet just to discourage my boyfriend from thinking of pig as a food. Is that really necessary!? Only if some animal is not a pet it is not food anymore. It does not make sense to me at all. We do not need animal as a food, being a pet or not. The way that humans treat animals (in particular in those big farms) is a mirror to ourselves.
Hi, i've been following you, i like your thought provoking activism, i'm vegan (fruitarianism is not for me but im all for your cause) I haven't always been vegan and took a while to get here. tbh i never had pets when growing up and never formed that much of emotional attachment to animals, until i started the journey into veganism i became more empathic. When i was a part time vegtarian (1/2 a week i would eat meat) I went on holiday to Sicily and brought some meat I didn't know what it was but i cooked these steak things, then one tasted really odd, it was so strong flavored, i translated the word and it was horse. I was so of horrified by that (i dont have a strong connection with horses but it sorta was a turning point for me, if i cant eat this why am i eating any of it. I'll never forget the time when i was a kid and at a restaurant my parents tried to feed me deer meat and told me it was 'bambi' to make me eat it, I cried when they told me that!!!! We need to listen to the childs heart, its just not right! (eating meat is social conditioning not a necessity) the english language deliberately changes the words for meat products like pig is pork and cow is beef but in german for instance schwein is schweinfleish literally pig meat. Anyway just some thoughts
this makes me cry :( everytime I think of these wonderfull animals...