Mass pig slaughter going on in Egypt right now. SO lets get this straight, if the pig lives, it gets slaughtered.2) the pigs might, or might not, have "pig pandemic" -- they get slaughtered anyway, just in case.then they say they want to keep the meat frozen..... that will just freeze any bacteria on it to be revived later -- (likely just when we think this Swine Flu is over) either way, it SUCKS if you're a pig. point is HUMANS SHOULDN'T BE EATING MEAT IN THE FIRST PLACE. this is why its hard for the general population to grasp -- even as I write this, and you read it, there are hundreds of thousands of animals, right this second, being ripped apart - generally still alive - while the rest of the herds can do nothing but sit and wait for their turn! its worst than a horror show! if general population was subject to this every day, there would be no animal consumption to speak of. its because when we look out our windows, we don't see this -- all we see is our day and what we need to do today - things that are apparently imminent - in our faces daily. Only a few farmers, representing a very small portion of the population are privy to these daily rituals - those that are hardened to it, brought up that way, apparently know no different. farmers and fishermen say, "why should we change? It was the way of our fathers and grandfathers and forefathers before that!" My question would be, "why shouldn't they change?" As we know, businesses change and morph daily. Some businesses go out of existence altogether, those that are simply not necessary in today's day and age. For instance, we don't see the shoe cobbler anymore, or the milkman coming to the door or the breadman, or the guy that used to make horse whips! and look at the auto industry! They go out of business, they change their ways, they set up new businesses. We are in living in an electronics era when information is king! Knowledge is passed today like the blinking of an eye around the world! Never before in the history of the planet as we know it, have humans had such access to such vast fields of information worldwide! I can understand why our forefathers were set in their ways, but for us to be able to see this big picture today and not do anything about? This is our problem. Look how smoking was viewed only some 20 years ago! It was kewl, it was hip, everyone was doing it! They even allowed it to be advertised and broadcast! Today, as most of us know, smoking is a taboo that is not good for us, people around us or the environment! So much so that governments have gone as far as banning advertising, not allowing smoking in public places, not even in your car -- especially where children (and adults) would be subject to secondhand smoke! I think (I hope) that the meat industry will also be viewed this way. It's not good for anybody! It's not good for the person that consumes it, not good for the environment, and certainly not good for the animals. The resistance to change in the meat industry is clearly one of financial dominance. There is no scientific reason the humans need animal meat to survive. No one has ever starved from being on a vegetarian diet and in fact humans do very well without it. If anyone doubts this please research Bill Pearl.
The process of killing animals has become such a huge business -- no longer is it the small family farm on the back roads -- now they are factories killing some 400 animals per hour! (That's just cattle!) And there are thousands of these so-called factory farms set up all over the planet! The sheer number and volumes of animals needed to supply these factories is daunting! Thousands upon thousands of animals are required to feed the lines! Millions of acres around the world are needed to house the animals before they are ready for slaughter. Around the world, this equates to 65 acres of rain forests and being chopped down every minute of every day! The rain Forest act like the liver of the earth filtering out toxins and pollutants that we constantly pump into it! Two thirds of the "Earth's natural liver" is already going! This happened apparently over the last 50 years! It is estimated that in another 50 years there will be no rain forests to speak of! Meanwhile the pollutants are going up while the Earth's ability to filter it is going down. Factory farming is the number one contributor to CO2 emissions on the planet today, far outweighing the entire transportation industry! This is the results of the comprehensive study completed by the United Nations! In simple terms this means you get more bang for the buck, so to speak, if you stop eating meat than you would if you stop driving your car all together. If you're a spiritual person I urge you to go to this page and click on the "audio sermon by the Rev. John Deer" (about halfway down on the right hand side) it's about 15 minutes long but well worth a listen -- especially if you haven't been to church and while. Sir Paul McCartney sums it up best -- "when you stop eating meat, and you take care of so many things all at once, ecology, cruelty, world famine, misuse of lands, the pollutants to our water supply" -- health benefits etc. the list goes on,