Animal Suffering Produces Meat from Stressed Animals
There are several reasons that we eat food. The primary reason that we consume food is to revitalize and nourish our bodies with nutrients that are essential for our growth. There are also some people who use food as a method of emotional gratification. Many of us consume foods from both plants and animals, thus the term omnivores.
Cruelty to animals is another reason for having a vegetarian diet
There are many reasons why people should consider having a vegetarian diet. Most of these reasons are related to the health benefits of restricting one’s diet to food coming from plants. There are also people who get rid of the meat from their diet because of the cruel treatment of the animals that are mass-produced for human consumption. To satisfy the demands of the US population, animal farming has become an inhumane act.
Cruelty to animals has to be done to hasten their growth
When a person consumes meat, he or she eats meat from an animal that has been overfed to hasten its life span and make it ready for human consumption the soonest time possible. The animals also suffer chronic stress because they are kept in a crowded environment with very limited room for movement and with little sanitation.
Abnormal living conditions is a form of cruelty to animals
Aside from the antibiotics that are administered to prevent the spread of diseases, the animals are also fed with growth hormones that make their development abnormally fast. The animals are not allowed to move freely as they would in their normal environments. Chickens also suffer physical damages as their beaks are taken off with a very hot knife. This has to be done to limit their aggressive behavior, which is usually the result of their abnormal living conditions.
It is hard to believe that the suffering of the animals’ bodies are different from that of their spirits and energies. If a stressed human can feel the damaging effects of stress on different parts of the body, it is safe to say that this can also be true for animals. Every cell of their bodies can experience the stress due to the inhumane conditions. Do we want to consume meats from stressed animals?
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