Do Animals Really Have Feelings?

The answer of course is yes. An emphatic YES.

I grew up on a farm raising calves and pigs. It was an innocent beginning to be sure and it wasn't until later in my life that I understood the value of knowing where my food was coming from.

In today's world we get our food already portioned and nicely labelled in a plethora of package styles and materials. Our meat is already boned and skinned, all the disgusting stuff is already done for us. Our hands are not stained and we can go about forgetting where and how that chicken breast or steak made into that package. Our foods are pre-cooked and sealed in a colourful plastic bag. Just add water, and presto, dinner for 4 for the busy family.

But the hateful and terrible truth is there for us to see. The animals that supply the dairy and eggs we find in many of our foods suffer greatly for our convenience. Cows do not naturally produce milk 12 months out of the year. Like humans they only produce milk for their babies. So cows are constantly impregnated. What happens to calves? Veal anyone? I could go on, but you get my point.

What these animals are put through every day of their miserable existence is deplorable, inhuman and monstrous. And we support it every day. We make that possible. Hey, I won't buy a lipstick that was tested by sticking it into a fluffy bunny's eye, but chickens are just dumb birds, right? What does it matter to me if they are crammed in a tiny wire cage, with little to no room to move, while feet are chafed raw from the wires and the sky is a distant dream somewhere in the instincts of its DNA?

So this weekend, I decided that I would say no. I will no longer eat non-organic, non-free range dairy or eggs, not even in a chocolate bar or a piece of bread. I will no longer eat non-organic, non-free range meat (though I am stuggling with even this and may go vegetarian in the end) no matter how much I miss McDonalds.

I have heard it said that a societies morality can be measured by how it treats in animals. What does that say for our society? What does that say about us?

End the suffering. Do your part.

Do it today.

The Meatrix
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