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exactlyIts not just people its animals that suffer even more and what for? This is hell.
it’s also worth saying that the reality of killing animals for food is something that society itself doesn’t even openly accept, if we are honest.
Scenes of animals being eliminated are not “socially wanted” , in fact, most people would find them disgusting, disturbing, and even traumatizing.
One single act of slaughter is enough to shock most of us. Imagine then the reality of thousands upon thousands of animals killed every single day,
with all the fear, blood, and terror that come with it. If such footage were shown in detail, it would be “too much” even for a horror movie , and yet, 'we' accept it as normal reality.
At the same time, we love our pets, feel compassion for them, and teach our children values like “do no harm to others, as you would not want harm done to you.”
But how do we reconcile that with the mass killing of animals who also feel pain, fear, and the desire to live?
Would we want to be born into a farm, raised in confinement, exploited, and then killed by beings more powerful than us?
Of course not. And yet we allow this system to continue , even though we don’t need it, even though we know it contradicts the very values we claim to live by.
When you step back and look at it, it’s honestly bizarre,almost surreal.
On one hand, we hold compassion, love, and empathy as human virtues. On the other hand, we normalize an industry of mass suffering and death.
At the very least, as humans with awareness and moral capacity, we should recognize that taking life for life doesn’t seem like the best idea for a world we would choose to design.
If nature itself already works that way ,with predators killing prey . shouldn’t we, with our ability to reflect and create alternatives, question it rather than take it for granted?
Shouldn’t we reduce suffering where we can, instead of multiplying it?
When you see things this way, it becomes very hard not to feel that this world is, in many ways, maybe, a kind of hell realm.