TIM BARRUS: NEW YORK TIMES
Industrial consumption is a sadness all over the wrecked planet we live on.
The wholesale slaughter of animals is ubiquitous to our predatory species, and eating animals is immoral, unethical, unnecessary, and a symbolic reminder that the systems we have built, like industrial farming, that prop our culture up with poisonous nutrition that is the source of everything from heart disease to cancer is a reminder that nothing works. The culture does not work. What we eat is infectious. The animals we kill so we might feast on them is going to leave our mark on our species like a historical scar when we are studied by animals of our kind by future human beings who are going to be appalled with – What Were They Thinking.
We are not allowed (by law) to see how the animals are murdered. Laws pushed by the meat industry even prohibit us to write and publish what really goes on.
I have snuck in there and what I saw changed my life forever. Not only am I legally restrained from writing about it, but I am simply blown away and have no idea how I could really find the words. The sound of the animals being killed has no comparison. The sight of animals struggling, gutted and lifted up on meat hooks is atrocious. I will never eat an animal again.
Our human culture causes us to deny the fact that we are animals, too.
We are mammals. We are responsible. We are carnivorous on an immense scale. Dead Pigs is the least of it. The day is coming when the earth will decide what to do with us.