Unparalleled Suffering: The dumbest thing I believed in to date
I’m sick of living in a world where people are more upset about being misgendered or their favorite sports team losing a game than they are with what’s going on in slaughterhouses.
UNPARALLELED SUFFERING: Like most humans, one of my favorite things to eat growing up was cheeseburgers made from cow carcasses… but it’s been nearly one-third of my life since I ate a burger that contained ingredients from slaughterhouses. The last animal burger I ever ate came from Whole Foods Market. In other words, the last burger I ever ate came from a place that supplied “food” made from animals who were treated far better and more responsibly than the norm, or so I had thought.
I don’t miss anything at all about the animal-based burgers I used to eat; I don’t miss eating patties that contained the mixed remains of up to one thousand different cows, I don’t miss the constipation, I don’t miss the blindness to what I was participating in, and I don’t miss supporting something that runs so extremely counter to my personal values and morals. I can say without a doubt that the top best tasting burgers I’ve had in my life haven’t even been any burgers that contained animal flesh, but some of the burgers that were made strictly from plants. To this day, my favorite burger joint is a plant-based restaurant called Meta Burger in Denver, Colorado, please try it if you’re ever in the area and are one of those humans who can actually go a meal without consuming death (I know, such a sacrifice).
Had I been educated as a child on what my food options were or had I been raised by parents who gave a damn about life forms that the norm is to discriminate against and utterly disregard, maybe I would have never even known the taste of these wildly popular death patties, which would have been just fine. All I was taught about cows as a child was that they make a “moo” sound and that they “give” us milk and beef.
Nobody taught me the glorious fact that humans exterminated all free-living natural cows and only allowed the cows who we genetically altered to produce superfluous flesh and milk (and who we could easily control) to keep living (well to be able to live for us, not for themselves and their family). Cows make far more sounds than just the basic “moo.” Nobody had taught me about the haunting bellowing sounds mother cows make after their babies are abducted from them on dairy farms or at livestock auctions, all so that their calf nourishment can be unnaturally redirected for ourselves to consume instead…
After finally ditching all animal products I felt so pathetic and stupid for waiting so long to do something so basic. What felt like such a giant and unachievable step to make was nothing more than a simple detour. Given what I knew and what I had continued to participate in, I could barely live with myself and who I was. But now I finally had a chance to do better. I wanted to inspire others to become educated, make the basic decency changes I had made, and to help them get to the finish line without getting trapped in mind games along the way like I had done. So activism time it was…
I prefer a world where there’s more people helping life that’s already here and in need, which includes every animal in existence who is in any situation of exploitation, neglect, abuse, injury, or any other need. I’m sick of living in a world where people are more upset about being misgendered or their favorite sports team losing a game or their neighbor not taking an experimental medical product than they are with what’s going on in slaughterhouses and on these so-called humane farms that reduce living beings to unfeeling machines that need to be put to death for our wants.
Despite exposing myself to hardcore animal abuse consistently for so many years in a row, I struggle to amplify their voices as loudly as I used to be able to because I know that most humans just do not care, and that’s one reason why I think the human species is so overrated. How can we be so great when it’s such a struggle to get the average human to exercise basic decency towards others who are just as real as them?…
As badly as I had wanted there to be “humane meat” I’m glad I now know the truth that such a phenomenon doesn’t exist and never will as long as sentient individuals are involved. Please be a decent human and don’t buy into utter nonsense (literally and figuratively) that needlessly puts other animals into harm’s way. Humane entails kindness, compassion, and mercy, which I’d argue we can afford to honor other beings with, no matter how different they are from ourselves. SOURCE…
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