Tuesday, January 5, 2010

What the Bleep Do We Know ..and animal suffering

"What the Bleep Do We Know" is a facinating movie that everyone should see. It talks about how thoughts directly affect reality, using quantum physics.

This film, both times I've watched it, made me think of the unneccessary and very real, very common abuse and torture of factory farmed animals and how the mental and physical anguish they suffer affects their body physically, on the cellular level on up.

My main issue has always been the fact that 90% of the animals we (again, and for the last time, not ME, but we as a society) eat have been literally butchered alive- they suffer being skinned alive, hung by hooks alive, scalding alive, literally dissasembled alive. 90% is not an exaggeration. OK so there's that, right? Then there's the fact that the lives they live are horrendous- 6 chickens to a cage, no room to move or stretch, pigs in holding cells their entire lives, cows packed into holding areas in fields, knee deep in their own shit. All of these animals are breathing toxic air from their own extrement, none of these animals can move anywhere near like they should be able to, none can properly nurse their offspring, and all but the cows are stuck never seeing the light of day. And most of these animals live among the dead and rotting corpses of their brothers and sisters. It is well documented (well, all of this is well documented) but pigs especially show overt signs of mental disorders due to these conditions. All this said and it's just the tip of the iceburg of the everyday horrors that we demand everytime we hit the dollar menu, etc.

My point is this- if you can take a bottle of water and write on it something simple like "I love you" or "Thank you" Or "you make me sick I want to kill you" and have drastically different outcomes of how that water- all from the same source- forms completely different crystals (or none at all in the negative cases), then what do you think happens on the cellular level of these suffering animals? And what makes us think it's healthy to eat all of that pain, suffering and cruelty?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

very good point of view. I'm not going to turn vegan, but I might start hunting my own chickens.

PandorasInk said...

I'm not a vegetarian. And I'd love to have my own chickens. Need more land or less dogs, and I don' see the less dogs thing ever really happening LOL :)