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1.1: Slaughterhouses seem like "disassembly lines", but animals are not
machines.
1.2: Another "disassembly line"...
| The fundamental reason to become vegan or vegetarian is respect
for the animals. People who follow a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle
believe these animals are sensitive beings with intrinsic value and
not just unfeeling objects. Vegans do not eat anything that is from
animal origin including meat, eggs and dairy products. They don't
wear animal skin or wool and they do not use products which are experimented
on animals. They do not buy animals as pets, they do not visit zoos
and Aquariums, they don't patronize circus or any show that employs
or features animals as entertainment. In short, they avoid all products
or activities that involve the death and suffering of animals. Every
year, billions of sentient beings are transformed into a food product,
after a very short life of pain and suffering. Vegans and vegetarians
cannot stop these atrocities in their entirety, but they refuse to
participate or further the cause.
The refusal to condone these brutal transformations is born from
the knowledge that animals must be guaranteed fundamental rights
- the same rights that the civilized world bestows on human beings.
In fact, human beings and animals have many of the same characteristics
including the ability to suffer. If humans suffer like animals do,
how is it possible for mankind to justify the morals and laws that
defend human fundamental rights and at the same time refuse to take
into consideration animal suffering? The laws of mankind are unjust
because they give humans certain fundamental rights while denying
those same rights to animals.
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1.3: Before ending in your plate, the meat you ate had this face.
1.4: A vegetarian and vegan can help avoid that these scenes are repeated.
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1.5: Even as these animals are bred, the space for movement is denied.
1.6: Iron slabs cruelly separate the infants from their mothers.
Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet
other animals have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals
do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and "animals"
is essential if we are to bend them to our will, wear them, eat them
- without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly
of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend
that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders
such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.
Carl Sagan e Ann Druyan - Scientists - From Shadows
of Forgotten Ancestors, 1992
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1.7: In his entire life, this piglet will only see the iron slabs of hiscage
and the knife of the butcher.
1.8: When animals die during transport, their bodies are dealt like garbage.
The French have already discovered that the blackness of the
skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress
to the caprice of a tormentor. It may one day come to be recognized
that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination
of theos sacrum are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a
sensitive being to the same fate. What else is it that should trace
the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or perhaps the
faculty of discourse? But a full-grownhorse or dog is beyond comparison
a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant
of a day or a week, or even of a month, old. But suppose they were
otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?
or Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? -
Jeremy Bentham - Philosopher
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1.9: The salami is served...
1.10: Sheep after a debilitating travel towards the slaughterhouse.
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1.11: The forced feeding or " gavage " of the geese for the production
of foie gras.
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