100% Vegans or even Vegetarians?
Take a look at this VERY disturbing video. Not for the faint hearted. It shows how cows/chickens that are bought up in animal farms for human consumption are bred and reared.. Heart touching indeed.
But i have a query here. The narrator states that for example if i drink milk, i support rearing of these animals and hence implies that, i would be supporting the cruel practices that are present right now. Ahem.. excuse me for a minute. Does this mean that i should stop eating chicken, lamb, beef or for that matter also stop drinking milk? And even if i do abstain from eating it, is it going to stop these people from treating these animals so inhumanely? I can say with a quite some amount of certainty that no amount of cajoling or persuading or blackmailing would make all the people in the world stop eating animals. So, animal rearing farms are going to exist and the butchering is going to continue forever. There is a whole section of society that lives on these animals. They would certainly not allow people to stop eating chicken or beef. Infact how many times have i seen ads in TVs and news papers that drinking milk or eating egg is good for health.
The solution to the above mentioned problem does not lie in the fact that we should abstain from animal products. I believe the solution is to set up a committee and come up with certain amount of minimum standards that should be maintained at animal breeding farms. The standards should prescribe the quality of the living space and conditions of the animals that live there and the way they get treated. These standards should be internationally followed. So regardless of which country you are from, if you dont follow these standards while bringing up animals, you should ban that particular farm and confiscate those animals and put them in other farms. To keep in check that the standards are indeed being followed, you could set up teams that travel randomly to animal farms and investigate the conditions there.
(On a bit lighter tone)
These animals are similar to us in many ways. They work for their owners all their life and bleed to death. Its only fair that they get treated with some dignity while they are alive. For example, similar to our office cubicles, each animal should be allocated a cubicle. As like we have adequate lighting, each animal should have access to adequate lighting. Instead of computers in our cubicles, they could have watering holes and a basket wherein food can be dropped. Also, similar to the free time that we get inbetween our work days (where we go home eat sleep and come back to work), these animals need to go out to a nearby farm field where they can graze and take rest. The animal farms should be well maintained and should be cleaned daily so that these animals live in hygenic conditions. This would ensure maximum productivity.
