no coffins), all while having a miniscule impact on the planet. Not to mention that the bear doesn’t farm the salmon nor deplete them.Īncient humans were born, lived, hunted, killed, and died, melting back into the earth (i.e. Yes, it eats as many as it can, but there are far more salmon than the bear can eat. Just like when a bear eats salmon as it prepares to hibernate: it doesn’t eat all the salmon. roamed the earth freely, and when early humans hunted them, it was probably only 1 at a time most likely, leaving the rest of the herd/flock/school alone. Prior to the advent of livestock and factory farming: cows, pigs, chickens, fish, etc. Besides, since when did humans get to decide what is best for life on the planet? That’s just arrogance. Make up your minds! It’s one or the other, not “humans, cats and dogs are special, but trees, cows, pigs, etc. Is life not precious? Okay, then all murder, including slaughtering livestock and humans killing humans should be legal and lawful. Which is it? Is life precious? Okay, then that includes livestock. ![]() We say “equal rights” and “animal rights”, yet: livestock. We say that certain life on this planet, especially human life, has a right to live a free and natural life, is deserving of rights, perhaps is even protected by certain laws because it’s on the verge of extinction, but if you’re a cow, pig, chicken, fish, etc., then you’re only purpose is to live an unnatural life on a farm, whether free range or in a crowded pen, simply to be slaughtered for human consumption. Oh and I’m not trying to guilt vegans, but many people will say “this is why I’m vegan” in response to livestock, but “going vegan” doesn’t actually solve that, it just eases the guilt. ![]() The rest of us, as long as we use society’s roads, cellphones, trash, bikes, used clothes, electricity, water, etc., we are complicit, whether omnivore, vegan, or otherwise. The only people innocent here are those not a part of human society, namely the aboriginal and native tribes living in the jungles of the amazon that are completely cutoff from modern society, for example. Oh, and btw: even if you are vegan, you still participate in society, which means you are complicit to all this as well. ![]() We say that murder and killing is unethical and immoral (we even invented god to try and force people to not kill each other and to obey their masters), that the holocaust was bad, that terrorism is bad, that racism is bad, sexism, money laundering, Ponzi schemes, stealing, abuse, rape, pirating software, speeding, war, etc., all the while eating our burgers and chicken nuggets (which I love as much as anyone!). It’s simple: that as a whole, we humans are arrogant hypocrites (you could even say lazy) when it comes to which particular life forms on this planet get to live a natural life, prioritizing the welfare of humans and their pets over all other life forms. Why is all this important and what’s the point of this article? Why am I using the holocaust as an example for this comparison? Because one: from a human perspective, it’s one of the biggest tragedies in human history, and two: humans hold this event in high regard when talking about their morals and ethics and things that humans shouldn’t do (i.e., genocide, murder, etc.). ![]() You could take all the human deaths to due accident, murder, war, and terrorism throughout human history, and it probably would be a grain of sand on the beach compared to the human destruction of life via deforestation and livestock. Do the math all the way back to when humans starting using livestock, and you’re probably in the trillions, maybe even more, with the holocaust becoming even more insignificant in comparison.Īnd I haven’t even mentioned how many trees (another organism like humans and cows) have been cut down due to deforestation. Now, let’s do the math when comparing the murder of humans during the holocaust to the murder of livestock every day: 6 million humans killed during the holocaust over the course of 4 years is 0.0238095238 (2.4%) percent of 252 million livestock killed every single day, and that’s just in 2023. How many is that per day? 92 billion livestock divided by 365 days in a year = 252,054,794 livestock killed globally every single day by humans for human consumption, whether it’s out of true necessity due to hunger, or simply as a fun party snack. The current estimate based on 1 particular website is 92 billion killed annually as of 2023. However, those numbers pale in comparison to the millions of livestock murdered on a global basis every day by humans. The killing of approximately 6 million humans (European Jews) by humans (Nazi Germany) over the course of 4 years, i.e. Welcome to Cognitive Dissonance 101 and the Pandora’s box gameshow of “Which Life Form is More Valuable Than the Other?”
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