by Janic » 12/12/20, 09:12
go one last shot for the road, for the attention of indifferent meat lovers, before disappearing:
"ah, if god existed, he wouldn't allow such things"we say in the face of human death!
Why would he be more "moral" than the humans themselves and their bloodthirsty basins?
SHELLEY percy : Percy Bysshe Shelley is a British poet, born near Horsham (Sussex) on August 4, 1792 and died at sea off the Spezia1 on July 8, 1822.
"Let the supporters of meat eating verify the validity of such a diet, that they tear a lamb still alive with their teeth [...] and plunge their head into its vital organs, quench their thirst in the smoking blood [ …] So will they be in agreement with their convictions. In a letter of March 14, 1812, his wife wrote to a friend: "We gave up meat to adopt Pythagorean thought". Shelley describes, in his poem The Queen Mab, a utopian world where human beings do not kill animals for food. "From now on, he will no longer kill the lamb looking at him, Will no longer devour his flesh. Because, as if to avenge the violated law of Nature, It poisoned, poisoned the body that engulfs it, awakened fatal passions, vain beliefs, Hatred, despair and disgust for everything, The seeds of misery , crime, disease, death. "
SINGER Isaac Bashevis Singer - 1904-1991:
Polish writer, naturalized American, Nobel Prize for Literature 1978.
- "It is often said that men have always eaten meat, as if it was a justification to continue to do so. By the same logic, we should not seek to prevent a man from killing another given as it always has been. "
- "We are all creatures of God; it is not reconcilable to invoke Divine Grace and Justice and to continue to eat the flesh of the animals which were slaughtered by our fault." To give to her daughter, only yesterday she was breastfeeding, that coarse diet of bloody meats. "
- All this verbiage about dignity, compassion, culture or morality seems ridiculous when it comes out of the very mouth of those who kill innocent creatures, chase foxes that their dogs have exhausted, or even encourage the existence of bullfights and slaughterhouses. All these explanations, according to which nature is cruel and therefore we are entitled to be cruel, are hypocrites. Nothing proves that man is more important than a butterfly or a cow. I consider becoming a vegetarian the greatest achievement of my life. I do not claim to save many animals from the slaughterhouse, but my refusal to eat meat is a protest against cruelty ... Personally, I do not believe there can be peace in this world as long as the animals will be treated as they are today.
SOCRATE Socrates - 470-399 BC:
Greek philosopher of antiquity.
- Socrates was a vegetarian and never wore leather or animal fur. Like Pythagoras, he argued that the habit of eating animal flesh drove humans to violence and war.
STAUSS Claude - Levy: born November 28, 1908 in Brussels1 and died October 30, 2009 in Paris is a French anthropologist and ethnologist who exercised a decisive influence on the human sciences in the second half of the twentieth century by being in particular one of the founding figures of thought structuralist.
“It is now (...) that exposing the defects of a humanism decidedly incapable of founding in man the exercise of virtue, Rousseau's thought can help us reject the illusion of which we are, alas! able to observe in ourselves and on ourselves the disastrous effects. For is it not the myth of the exclusive dignity of human nature that caused nature itself to suffer a first mutilation, from which other mutilation should inevitably follow? We began by cutting man off from nature and making him a sovereign reign; it was thus believed to erase his most irrefutable character, namely that he is first of all a living being. And by remaining blind to this common property, we have given free rein to all abuses. Never better than at the end of the last four centuries of its history could Western man understand that by arrogating to himself the right to radically separate humanity from animality, by granting to the one all that 'he refused the other, he opened a cursed circle, and that the same frontier, constantly pushed back, would serve to separate men from other men, and to claim for the benefit of ever smaller minorities the privilege of a corrupt humanism immediately born to have borrowed from self-love its principle and his notion. "
Claude Lévi-Strauss, structural anthropology (1973).
THOREAU
Henry David Thoreau - 1817-1862:
American writer.
- "There is no doubt for me that it enters the destiny of humanity, because it is gradually improving itself, to one day stop eating animals."
TOLSTOÏ Léon Tolstoï - 1828-1910:
Russian humanist and poet.
- "If someone aspires to a virtuous life, his first act must be to refrain from harming animals".
- "From killing animals to killing people there is only one step, just like making animals suffer to make people suffer."
- "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will also be battlefields."
- "Man can live and stay healthy without needing to kill animals for food. Therefore, eating meat makes co-responsible for the killing of animals perpetrated just to satisfy our palate. Take action. this way is immoral. It is such a simple fact that it is probably not possible to disagree. "
- "If man seriously and honestly seeks the path of morality, the first thing he must give up is the consumption of meat."
- "Vegetarianism is valid as the basic criterion with which we can recognize whether man seriously aspires to moral perfection. Meat food is a primitive residue; switching to a vegetarian diet is the first manifestation of education."
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Leonardo da Vinci - 1452-1519:
Painter, sculptor, engineer and architect, Italian artist whose genius is universally recognized.
- "I rejected meat since very early in my childhood and the time will come when men, like me, will watch the killing of animals as they now watch the murder of their fellow human beings."
- "You defined man as the King of Animals; I on the other hand, I would say that man is the king of ferocious beasts among which you are the greatest. Did you not actually kill and eat the animals to satisfy the pleasures of your palate, turning yourself into a grave for all these animals? Does not nature produce enough vegetable food to satisfy you? "
VOLTAIRE François Marie Arouet, known as "Voltaire" - 1694-1778:
French philosopher and writer.
- "It is certain that this terrible bloodbath continuously perpetrated in our slaughterhouses and in our kitchens no longer appears to us as a crime; on the contrary, we consider these abominations, which are often accompanied by a pestilential odor, as a blessing of the Lord and in our prayers we thank him for the creatures we have killed. "
- "But is there anything more abominable than to continually feed on the meat of corpses?"
YOURCENAR Marguerite Yourcenar - 1903-1987 : Writer, woman of letters, French and American nationalities. First woman elected to the Académie Française in 1980.
"Like Zeno, I dislike" digesting agonies. "
Let’s be subversive. Let us revolt against ignorance, indifference, cruelty, which moreover is not so often exercised against man because they have made their hand over beasts. Let us remember, if we always have to bring everything back to ourselves, that there would be fewer child martyrs if there were fewer tortured animals, fewer lead wagons bringing the victims of any dictatorship to death. , if we hadn't gotten used to wagons where animals are dying without food or water while waiting for the slaughterhouse.
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