The delicious and the vicious..
Yesterday I saw a really horrible video about how pigs get tortured on one pig farm. It was just outrageous the way those people treated the poor animals. I am not any animal activist or any kind of activist really. But to see this kind of behavior makes me think about my own non-vegetarianism.
An extreme effect of seeing something like this is really thinking about whether or not, the fact of me being a non-vegetarian, sort of encourages such practices. After all, it is for people like me that those animals get there to be slaughtered, even if not always tortured. I understand the dynamics of mass production and all kinds of practices which could also be considered as cruel to animals even though they legally may not be so. Setting those aside, however, certainly just the high demand should not cause this kind of treatment of animals? What kind of a person gets pleasure out of torturing helpless beings for nothing?
I know I am not in my kindergarten. And I know there are a lot of sick people out there in the world, and you hear about them in the news all the time. You keep ignoring because you can’t do much about it anyway. One also understands as one gets older that no matter what books or our religious leaders might say, life is NEVER fair. Not everybody pays for what he inflicts on someone else. In fact, the laws of modern society treat the guilty more humanely than how the their victims got treated. And I think this imbalance is hopelessly going to grow – the crimes get worse and more horrifying, and the society continues to become more and more considerate to people who committed those crimes rather than being considerate to the people who mercilessly suffered at the hands of these criminals.
Where does that leave animals? At the lowest end of the justice system I guess. Nature allows killing, but for survival and food, not for sadistic pleasure. We are told from our childhood that God is watching over whatever you do.. and in your adult life, you realize that that’s not so true, God is not a policeman.. ‘coz if He was one, such things would never happen. There are clever arguments to counter this conclusion when people say everybody gets what he is destined to get or that this could be the result of their actions in the past life. If you ask me, that is simply not true…
I am sure the justice in this case will be less than 1% fair to what those animals went through. And there is nothing that can change it. Call that destiny if you wish…