Consuming Meat or Ourselves?

 A Swamiji was being shown a meat factory. Taking him through various departments the guide showed him all the latest machinery involved in meat processing. He told him that it was a completely automated plant and that entire meat production process was automatic. “They put a pig from one end of machine and receive sausages from the other.”

“Fantastic.” Smiled Swamiji. “But can they do the reverse also?” I mean can they put sausages and retrieve pigs?

The guide was speechless.

Swamiji smiled again and said “If you cannot give life to these animals, what right do you have to rob them of it?”

An even bitter fact is that we are not only killing the animals, we are actually killing entire planet. Excessive meat eating is playing havoc with the ecology of mother Earth.  

There was a time, till about 70 years back, when in most parts of the world the meat production industry was very much eco-friendly. But that cannot be said today. Every stage of meat industry is a torture for global ecology.

In days gone by the goats and cows roamed around grassy pastures all the day; today most meat producing animals are confined to extremely congested places and fed with industrially produced corn and soya – something for which their intestines are not designed.

Most animals don’t get sufficient roughage, and have non-functioning bowels quite like many of us human beings. To overcome this, they are fed with artificial roughage pallets.

Most animals spend their life in dark, crowded places, and are injected with growth hormones in order to yield faster meat growth.

In short we treat them not as living beings but as meat factories.

However one of the biggest truth in this world is Newton’s Third Law of Motion, which says “To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction. This is what is happening here too: what we are giving to animals; they return it back to us. We feed them with UNNATURAL DIET and they provide us with UNNATURAL MEAT. Today most meat is suffused with chemicals and hormones which only increase the diseases among meat consumers.

I can go on and on...but the message is very clear: we would help ourselves if we stop eating industrially grown meat. We think we are consuming animal meat; the truth is we are consuming ourselves. 

By Shailendra Kakani