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yewberry

(6,530 posts)
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 07:39 PM Apr 2020

I'm really struggling with looming mass slaughter.

Meat processing plants are shutting down. There are reports of the possibility of mass slaughter of pigs, chickens, cattle. I'm just sick over it.

I try not to think about this industry much, because I find it really self-destructive to dwell on it. But this. Jesus.

We are 100% responsible for these lives. Our colossal arrogance demands mass production and commodification of these lives for vanity, or desire, or sport. Now, when their lives and deaths are inconvenient, we just kill them all. Their lives, already brutal, desperate and short, are nothing to us. Less than nothing.

I think I have to stop thinking about this for a while.

“What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.”
from The Letter Writer

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I'm really struggling with looming mass slaughter. (Original Post) yewberry Apr 2020 OP
Food shortges looming ahead? at140 Apr 2020 #1
Food shortages? No. yewberry Apr 2020 #8
It bothers me too,a lot. I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2020 #2
Same here morillon Apr 2020 #3
Nobody needs to die for us to eat and be healthy. MLAA Apr 2020 #4
Me, too. Ohiogal Apr 2020 #5
How far the U.S. has fallen. In WWII we faced many challenges but we persevered and we abqtommy Apr 2020 #6
IF you can't leverage that love, and that hate, spite, and anger flvegan Apr 2020 #7
Yewberry I know exactly how you feel CatLady78 Jun 2020 #9

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,934 posts)
2. It bothers me too,a lot.
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 07:46 PM
Apr 2020

If they have to die they should be redistributed somehow to those who are hungry
When profit is no longer a motive for everything how much better could the world be? A lot better.

The arawak tribe had it right a gift/sharing economy,like anarchist free stores in more modern times.

It can happen the day we say enough and take it all back from the greedy ones. We have the power. To change it all.

morillon

(1,229 posts)
3. Same here
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 07:52 PM
Apr 2020

I can kind of sort it out in my head if their deaths fed someone.

But to kill them because the corporations can't make money from them in the particular way they're accustomed to profiting? That's an obscene loss of life and I wouldn't want any part of it.

Can't they just, I dunno, give them away to people with family farms? I guess that'd cost more money than they want to pay. They have bloated executives to feed, after all.

MLAA

(18,598 posts)
4. Nobody needs to die for us to eat and be healthy.
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 07:57 PM
Apr 2020

Now, with impotus pushing for animal flesh plants to remain open despite Covid -19, not only are millions of animals dying, now we are killing the people who work there. It is all around heartbreaking.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
6. How far the U.S. has fallen. In WWII we faced many challenges but we persevered and we
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 10:04 PM
Apr 2020

won out together. Now again in our history we're facing serious challenges but it's a total disaster.
Given many differences between then and now I think the most telling is that during WWII we had
competent leaders. Not so much these days, eh?

flvegan

(64,592 posts)
7. IF you can't leverage that love, and that hate, spite, and anger
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 11:05 PM
Apr 2020

into something positive, some action, even direct, and it only sits to be self-destructive, in these times you have to let it go. Then, let it be fuel. I'll leave that there.

CatLady78

(1,041 posts)
9. Yewberry I know exactly how you feel
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 08:32 AM
Jun 2020

I try not to think about this sort of thing when there is not much I can do. I find it very saddening.
We need to end factory farming and animal suffering on this scale. We treat animals in ways that are absolutely unconscionable. These industries at least need much stricter regulation overseen by animal welfare groups.

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