As Stalin said, "The death of man is a a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistics." This makes sense not only for people. We look at the animals the same way. When we read a story about someone who abused and killed a puppy or a cat, we're upset, we call those people bastards and we wish them to experience the sae horrors like those their pets went through ... But many of these people complain about these things while eating a hamburger or chicken nuggets. They feel sorry for animals we consider as "pets" while they're eating flesh of another's dead animal. But... food industry animals do not have any life story ... Or do they?
Yes, animal are different from people. But have you ever seen human communicty, so organized like the ones which ants, bees or beavers create? Have you ever seen an animal who would kill another animal just for fun? Animals do not fight with each other because of their religion, race or anything else ... they kill only to survive and feed themselves. Humans do not need to do that. We have so many other options to feed our bodies, that it doesn't really make sense that we still eat other animals' flesh ...
Behind every peice of meat we eat, every glass of milk we drink .. there's a hidden story that most of people don't want to hear. And when we find out the truth, we're likely to start looking for excuses which can justificate our behaviour.
But this is the reality and for all we've done to the animals, we owe them at least one think - to know the truth. Then it's just our choice, what do we decide to do...
I believe that if parents told their kids about how their food comes to their plates, most of them wouln't eat meat anymore.
Kids don't want to hurt anyone, they have natural relationship with the animals. How is it possible that we've lost this sense of empathy and the compassion and why is it so hard to find it again?
"I went to the holding areas. At the end of the holding areas visit, I saw some of the cows were houses individually, some of them were housed in very large groups - I don't know why. At the end there was a huge, beautiful, completely white cow. And the was terrified. You could see she was really really anxious. She was really afraid. I have a feeling, that somehow they know. I don't know why would they know, but maybe they can smell the blood cause it was right adjacent to the alughterhouse. She was really nervous. And we were at the end of the visit, so I asked the guy who was with me, if I could stay there with the cow. So he stayed there with me and I was talking to the cow for about 15 or 20 minutes. She calmed down and I was even petting the cow and she was in much better conditions. But then the next day, when I went to the actual slaughter facility and when I was filming all of these horrible things, it came the turn of that beautiful white cow to go through slaughter. And it was so much harder because the fact that this white cow wasn't even fighting back like the other cows. She could smell the blood, she could hear the other cows, she knew exactly what was going on. But for some reason, I think she thought that I was gonna help her. She even positioned herself, they didn't even have to shove her in too much. The workers were shoving the other cows and the cows were jumping, getting on their hind legs. And this white cow just went straight up to me and she was just starring at me. And the other workers were pushing her and then the door closed behind her and even with all of that, she was not fighting back. All she was doing was starring at me with her eyes wide open. She wasn't even blinking. Like she was beggin for me to help her. Somehow she probably sensed, that I didn't want for this to happen - and obviously I didn't want it to happen. And it was so hard, because she was imploring for me to help her and there was absolutely nothing I could do."
(Vegan Everyday Stories documentary - Sofia Pineda Ochoa talking about her "tour" around the slaughterhouse)
↑ dog meat ↓ beef
We are angry when someone hurts their pets, but it's only our culture that calls some animals "pets" and considers the others as "food". In some asian countries, people normally buy grilled dogs at the street market. We can't even imagine that because we have kind of relationship with cats and dogs. We meet them in the street, we're able to recognize theirs feelings and needs.
How they breathe, when they're hurt, when they're having a nightmares ... Why do we think that other animals don't have these emotions? Even cows or pigs want to live in peace, they want to have enough food and they want someone who will care about them with love.

Imagine the baby cows in the dairy industry. They're just children. They don't want anything else than their mom, they want to drink her milk, they wat to cuddle.
However a man takes them away from their mothers just few hours or days after their birth. They were born into the world, where nothing good is waiting for them.
They don't know what is going to happen to them. But the only thing they are going to experience is a sad, cruel life and in a while, they, as well as their mother's are going to be killed.
Try to imagine this, happening in the human world. A mother gives birth to a child and the doctors take the baby away.
She will never see him/her again. She won't ever hug him. The mother will be sexually abused and her baby will be killed in few weeks - because the young meat is just so delicious ...
You think it's not possible to compare people with animals? Why? What are the differences between us and who decides which species are more important than others? According to a new study about the ood chain, people are somewhere between .....
Our body ad our brain works differently then other animals'. But what makes us "better"? Some animals have senses which humans have never had or which
disappeared during the evolution.
Yes, we have the"power" over the world. We have created the civilization, we've built the cities, countries, political systems, we're exploring the whole world ... But what have we achieved by doing that? We're destroying the Earth, the only planet we will ever be able to live on. During the last 100 years, we eradicated about 90% of the population of big fish and according to scientific research, in 2048 there will be no fish in the oceans.
While almost one billion of people around the world suffer from hunger, 80% of the world production of corn and soy and about one third of all grains is used to feed the animals on factory farms.
70% of the Amazon rainforest was destroyed and turned into pastureland and much of the rest is used to grow food for those animals. If people were killing each other like we kill the animals, the human populations would die off in just 17 days ... A lot of people think that the"inteligence" of humans is something that determinates us to abuse and hurt the other species ...
"In the behaviour towards creatures, all men are Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased examplify the most extreme racist theories - the principle that might is right." - Earthlings documentary
How they breathe, when they're hurt, when they're having a nightmares ... Why do we think that other animals don't have these emotions? Even cows or pigs want to live in peace, they want to have enough food and they want someone who will care about them with love.

Imagine the baby cows in the dairy industry. They're just children. They don't want anything else than their mom, they want to drink her milk, they wat to cuddle.
However a man takes them away from their mothers just few hours or days after their birth. They were born into the world, where nothing good is waiting for them.
They don't know what is going to happen to them. But the only thing they are going to experience is a sad, cruel life and in a while, they, as well as their mother's are going to be killed.
Try to imagine this, happening in the human world. A mother gives birth to a child and the doctors take the baby away.
She will never see him/her again. She won't ever hug him. The mother will be sexually abused and her baby will be killed in few weeks - because the young meat is just so delicious ...
You think it's not possible to compare people with animals? Why? What are the differences between us and who decides which species are more important than others? According to a new study about the ood chain, people are somewhere between .....
Our body ad our brain works differently then other animals'. But what makes us "better"? Some animals have senses which humans have never had or which
disappeared during the evolution.
Yes, we have the"power" over the world. We have created the civilization, we've built the cities, countries, political systems, we're exploring the whole world ... But what have we achieved by doing that? We're destroying the Earth, the only planet we will ever be able to live on. During the last 100 years, we eradicated about 90% of the population of big fish and according to scientific research, in 2048 there will be no fish in the oceans.
While almost one billion of people around the world suffer from hunger, 80% of the world production of corn and soy and about one third of all grains is used to feed the animals on factory farms.
70% of the Amazon rainforest was destroyed and turned into pastureland and much of the rest is used to grow food for those animals. If people were killing each other like we kill the animals, the human populations would die off in just 17 days ... A lot of people think that the"inteligence" of humans is something that determinates us to abuse and hurt the other species ...
"In the behaviour towards creatures, all men are Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased examplify the most extreme racist theories - the principle that might is right." - Earthlings documentary
the flossenburg concentration camp
"beef farm", Canada
Yes, animal are different from people. But have you ever seen human communicty, so organized like the ones which ants, bees or beavers create? Have you ever seen an animal who would kill another animal just for fun? Animals do not fight with each other because of their religion, race or anything else ... they kill only to survive and feed themselves. Humans do not need to do that. We have so many other options to feed our bodies, that it doesn't really make sense that we still eat other animals' flesh ...
Behind every peice of meat we eat, every glass of milk we drink .. there's a hidden story that most of people don't want to hear. And when we find out the truth, we're likely to start looking for excuses which can justificate our behaviour.
But this is the reality and for all we've done to the animals, we owe them at least one think - to know the truth. Then it's just our choice, what do we decide to do...
I believe that if parents told their kids about how their food comes to their plates, most of them wouln't eat meat anymore.
Kids don't want to hurt anyone, they have natural relationship with the animals. How is it possible that we've lost this sense of empathy and the compassion and why is it so hard to find it again?
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