As an animal lover ,I’m often met with a quandary over whether it is hypocritical of me to be eating meat. If you’re a passionate animal advocate, I’m sure this is something you’ve asked yourself many times.On the flip side, many fruits and vegetables come from farms that exploit low-wage migrant workers. Are you, veggie or meat eater, eating that produce?We are talking about human beings, not animals here. Vegetarians would probably want those workers to be paid a decent wage and treated fairly, right? Also a Vegan may own 10 pairs of leather shoes but may prefer to stay ignorant.
Anyways coming back to the present dichotomy, in Dr. Melanie Joy’s book “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs“she discusses the meat paradox and “carnism,” the belief system that allows society to eat and use the products of certain animals but not others, but here I present slightly contrasting views, not to defend meat consumption but an alternate perspective, feel free to subscribe or ignore but its a point worth pondering over.
Have we ever wondered that every other species on our planet are able to control their weight automatically the only exception is us and any exception for animals raised by us.We consume processed food which is not natural and try to fool mother nature. We should be eating the food which natures provides, not scientised, not what factory provides. We have hijacked our taste buds with food like substances that are not whole food, that are not real food like WHEAT....
The most destructive thing we have done as mankind is the activity called agriculture. You have to understand what agriculture is, you take a piece of land and you clear every living thing off it, including the bacteria in that. So all the plants and animals that are suppose to live there, they are gone. Now you will grow an acre of corn or wheat. That corn is going to require things that are not there for it and you will come from outside and apply them. It is going to take a lot of fertilisation, insecticides, fungicides cause you are fighting a war, cause all those little animals, all those plants want to come back.
Now another thing which happens is every-time you plant that corn, you are destroying the soil, grassland. Its the plenty of roots which create channels for the rain, when you have only annuals they don't live long time, they don't have time to build long roots. So in a year you are drying down the soil and the soil washes off, and if you are on any kind of slope it goes down into a river and kill it with all the dirt, so now there is no fish either.
In the meantime while the corn is still growing, you transport it to a miserable cow living in a farm and feed that cow passed that point she will die of eating, as its not its natural diet but until that point she will become really fat really fast and then slaughter her, feed her to humans so now you will make people sick eating this meat as well.
As far as I see there is nothing but death and destruction.
Now let me walk you through another scenario, you take the same acre of land but you don't hurt it in any way, you let it have its own wisdom, its own impulse towards life, its own wild way and what you have is a whole bunch of plants growing there, sturdy grasses, you have got big birds, you have ground dwelling birds and you have small mammals, larger mammals, you might even have bears, wolves coming there and in the meantime you will have ruminants. So you produce the same amount of food for people. You have ruminants in the end which can be slaughtered and fed to the people, but that acre, the grassland you can come back after 10,000 years and all of that life will be there the only bit different will be little more soil and that is how we lived for 2.5 million years as humans on the planet participating in the same cycle.
Wheat was introduced some 10,000 years ago which seems like a long time and predates Egyptian, Greek and Roman empire but 10,000 years represent less than 1/2 of 1% of human race's time on earth. We went from a diet which was 90% meat and fat to suddenly relying to grain & legumes very first time in our evolutionary history. Every cell in our body is wrapped in a membrane which is half fat and half protein and when we supply industrial fat/carbs to the cell it starts as a miniature trojan horses and is a start of a disease. Bread and other grain related products are the perfect obesegion, food perfectly crafted to make you FAT.
So once we get rid of refined oil, processed foods, grains and wheat we are left with vegetables, fruits, nuts & seeds, meat, seafood and good heathy fats and that is what we
should be focusing on.
However I am not comforted by the clean and tidy meat packaging we find in supermarkets. I know where meat comes from, and sadly, the high demand for meat has resulted in farms churning out meat as cheaply and quickly as possible. This intensive farming is sometimes referred to as factory farming, where animals live in dirty and overcrowded spaces, and their well-being is not taken into account.
But I feel that it is possible for animals to be treated and slaughtered in an ethical manner.
I believe that animals have the right to their five freedoms: which is the freedom from hunger or thirst; discomfort; pain, injury or disease; freedom to express normal behaviour; and freedom from fear and distress.
Farms and companies that deal with animals should treat animals with respect, and governments should make this obligation a law.
If I had the choice between ethically sourced meat and one that is not, I would go with the former – even if it costs more.
And there is hope for folks who don't agree with me, there are advances in technology that enable us to create cultured meat (or in vitro meat) where meat is grown in cell culture rather than inside animals. This will let consumers continue to eat meat without harming any animal. :)
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