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Isaac Beshevitz Singer, the writer once said that to herd animals all humans are Nazis. Each day on this planet billions of throats are cut, billion of skulls are penetrated, billions electro-shocked. Other billions like lobsters are kept alive with their claws taped until they are ready to be boiled or grilled. Still others, billions of them, just babies are slaughtered to supply our kitchens with ribs, veal chops, lamb chops. I am reminded of Jackie Onassis and her love of unborn lamb. What are we? We are simply carnivores without compassion for those living things we consume. This project attempts to reconcile our need for the meat of living things with a higher need not to take life. We try to protect human life with laws restricting and punishing killing of others. Why are the animals we eat any different? They feel pain like we do. They rail against imprisonment like we do. They love and protect their offspring like we do. Why can’t we wait until these animals, die of natural causes and then eat them. Salmon die after they spawn while they are still robust and young. The octopus lives only three years. Chickens only live a few years. We identify with the eagle and scorn the vulture. Perhaps it is time for us to change and identify with the vulture and find the scientific means to insure any meat we consume from naturally dead animals is free of toxins associated with rigor mortis, etc. Exploring the feasibility of such an approach is what The Compassionate Carnivore Project is about. Join us. We are only at the drawing board stage and need to collaborate with biologists, animal husbandry specialists, foundations, chapter organizers, etc. It will cost more money to eat a naturally dead animal but it will cost less ethically. Perhaps, in time, naturally aged meat will mean something different than it does now and an awful lot of living things will not have to be born and live their entire lives on death row. Web Site Maintained & Hosted by Globalsites.net, Inc. |