I'm really struggling with looming mass slaughter. [View all]

Meat processing plants are shutting down. There are reports of the possibility of mass slaughter of pigs, chickens, cattle. I'm just sick over it.

I try not to think about this industry much, because I find it really self-destructive to dwell on it. But this. Jesus.

We are 100% responsible for these lives. Our colossal arrogance demands mass production and commodification of these lives for vanity, or desire, or sport. Now, when their lives and deaths are inconvenient, we just kill them all. Their lives, already brutal, desperate and short, are nothing to us. Less than nothing.

I think I have to stop thinking about this for a while.

“What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.”
from The Letter Writer