I DARE you to watch this:
Habee I tried watching it. I watched a few videos a way back - they were about different forms of animal cruelty - red pandas, horses, animal vivisection, slaughtering, fur trade, food - on and on.
I still feel sick even now - remembering back. I can't bear what we do to each other in the name of god, for spite, for money - or simply because we can, never mind how we treat our animals.
Man's inhumanity to man is one thing - and the way we treat animals is another. I always think - when someone says 'how can we do 'x' to animals?' - that the answer lies in how we treat each other.
I know we're not all this way - but still, I'm sickened at what we can be, what we can do - when we've got the power to be so many good things.
I'm not watching it all Habee - not because I pretend those things don't happen, rather because I really will be sick. Cruelty of any kind makes me sick.
Suffered from it myself (and how many of us haven't?) and my only conclusion as to why these things happen is because people make bad choices - because they can
It was only a couple of days ago I watched something nasty about the way birds are reared (for human consumption) and that video was disgusting - and the birds were supposedly reared under organic, humane conditions.
I've done my 'bit' over the years, still do when I get the chance - hence:
I watched a bit of it but can't watch it all. I've seen many videos like this so I know what it shows.
It seems, and is shocking, and many can't imagine how other people can do these things. It's because of what I have said before, everything is relative. That is, what your use to.
I was raised in the redneck sticks of Vermont and had many friends with farms. I saw many things that because I did not spend much time on a farm I was shocked at what I saw.
Yet everyone laughed at me when I tried to say that it seemed cruel to do this or that. They always were like "oh heck, they don't really feel much pain, they are use to it" and so on.
They just were too use to how they did this stuff, raised that way, that to them it was normal and not at all cruel. They really, truly did not think it was cruel at all, just life as normal.
I did some things when I was younger and still in Vermont that I can't imagine doing now. But at that time it just was how you did things in Vermont, it was normal life as a rural outdoorsman.
That's not to excuse those who do these things, just that they really don't see what they do the way others do.
Everything is relative,,,,,
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