sunyata07
02 February 2012, 12:33 PM
Namaste everyone,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/oct/07/animal-welfare-abuse-slaughterhouse
This is just a video I thought it was necessary to remind ourselves why we're vegetarians and why we choose not to involve ourselves in the evil that goes on in abbatoirs. It was linked to me by a friend. Frankly, I really didn't want to watch the thing, but I feel sometimes my abstaining from meat becomes more of a habit over a period of time than a proactive choice to refrain from partaking of murder. Meat-eating it can be debated is necessary in some parts of the world. I realise different people are at different stages of spiritual development and I don't believe in forcing my opinion down somebody else's throat. I find it often has quite negative consequences, and subsequently makes the person more adverse to my beliefs in the first place.
But for these clips, there are no words. How can humans be so cruel? We were gifted not only with intelligence and judgement but also the capacity to love and feel mercy for beings who are far less able to defend themselves. To have workers in a slaughterhouse is inevitable, clearly. It's not exactly the most desirable or worthy work, but you can argue someone has to do it. But to take what appears to be in this link brutal and sadistic pleasure in the torture and ending of these creatures' lives must be indicative of some kind of detriment to the soul to be anywhere near these houses of death. Such suffering. I hope dearly these poor souls are reborn into conditions far away from such places.
I wish I didn't have to reintroduce myself back here with such a sad post, but it was a terrible reminder for myself of the asuric tendencies of some people. In a way, I needed to be shocked back into understanding why I'm vegetarian.
Om namah Shivaya
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/oct/07/animal-welfare-abuse-slaughterhouse
This is just a video I thought it was necessary to remind ourselves why we're vegetarians and why we choose not to involve ourselves in the evil that goes on in abbatoirs. It was linked to me by a friend. Frankly, I really didn't want to watch the thing, but I feel sometimes my abstaining from meat becomes more of a habit over a period of time than a proactive choice to refrain from partaking of murder. Meat-eating it can be debated is necessary in some parts of the world. I realise different people are at different stages of spiritual development and I don't believe in forcing my opinion down somebody else's throat. I find it often has quite negative consequences, and subsequently makes the person more adverse to my beliefs in the first place.
But for these clips, there are no words. How can humans be so cruel? We were gifted not only with intelligence and judgement but also the capacity to love and feel mercy for beings who are far less able to defend themselves. To have workers in a slaughterhouse is inevitable, clearly. It's not exactly the most desirable or worthy work, but you can argue someone has to do it. But to take what appears to be in this link brutal and sadistic pleasure in the torture and ending of these creatures' lives must be indicative of some kind of detriment to the soul to be anywhere near these houses of death. Such suffering. I hope dearly these poor souls are reborn into conditions far away from such places.
I wish I didn't have to reintroduce myself back here with such a sad post, but it was a terrible reminder for myself of the asuric tendencies of some people. In a way, I needed to be shocked back into understanding why I'm vegetarian.
Om namah Shivaya