MEAT EATING INVOLVES
(by G. L. Rudd, Why kill for food?)
1) The brutal and unnecessary slaughter of millions of highly sensitive creatures every
day of the year, it includes the ghastly butchery by throat-slitting and braining, making
the earth a hell for majority of the world's more highly developed creatures.
The human stomach becomes an animal cemetery, receiving the partly cremated portions of
dead animals instead of health-insuring nutrition.
2) The perpetuation of thoughtless, selfish greed, in those who insist on the flesh of
specially murdered animals. Killing animals unnecessarily is selfish.
3) The degradation to callous brutality of those whose job it is to crush out the life
of meat-bearing animals... doing the dirty work of those who resolutely shut their minds
and hearts to the fact that they are devouring the organs and muscles of a creature which
once experienced fear, agony, and mother love, and which would still be enjoying life,
were not killed and dissected.
4) The poisoning of the human blood-stream by absorption of putrefactory matter in a
system specially adapted for metabolism through processes of fermentation, to the
detriment of other vital functions.
5) The inevitable spread of disease with the parallel rise of drug and serum therapy,
again involving the creatures in pain distress though vivisection by the devilish
practices of animal experimentation; another utterly selfish pursuit.
6) Disruption of world economy because the total acreage of fertile land will not
support a meat eating community. Those who eat flesh ensure that a similar number of
people will live on a starvation level in another part of the world. This leads to war as
assuredly as armed aggression.
7) A denial of the right of all living creatures to develop in their own way.
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