Kurma on the Cause of War

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/Q: / Hello Kurma,

 

You've probably seen the Australian Livestock Association's recent

screening of a series of TV ads promoting lamb-eating as being in

keeping with 'spirit of Australia". I tell my friends that this surely

is a terrible injustice since the poor animals are also Australians.

What do you think?

 

*Zoe Schulberg, Tamarama, New South Wales, Australia*

 

A: Hello Zoe,

 

Thank you for your insightful letter. I couldn't have said it better myself.

Yes I saw those ads. Interestingly, it did stir up a bit of controversy,

and a good number of vegetarian Australian media personalities did speak

out.

 

Yet it strikes me how there seems to be a collective cloud of ignorance

that covers people's finer instincts when it comes to eating corpses. We

would swerve to avoid an already-dead animal cadaver while driving on

the highway, as if running over it would add insult to injury, yet we

don't hesitate to pick up a few packets of bloodied flesh at the

supermarket.

 

We are outraged when an Australian citizen is jailed without trial

overseas, or kidnapped and murdered, yet we confine and execute millions

of our innocent, child-like four-legged and winged citizens each year in

our concentration-camp style slaughterhouses.

 

I think if people could see first-hand what goes on behind the closed

doors of the slaughterhouses and factory farms, then only the hardest of

hearts could not fail to be moved.

 

Consider these points:

 

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