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I wanted to ask all of you to think of what it would be like to be disrespected, beaten, exploited, disregarded, objectified, and to have no voice to speak out and have no way to fight for yourself and for your freedom?

How would it feel to be treated like property, given no mercy, torn from your parents at birth, and sold off to the highest bidder, only to face the last remaining months of your life in intolerable living conditions, with no one to go to for help, with no one to go to to speak of your horrific circumstances?

Animals raised for food are forced into lives lived just as I described. They are forced to live like this so that people can satisfy their appetites. Yet, the biggest tragedy of this whole situation is that people can satisfy their appetites with plant foods so easily, so conveniently, which means that billions of animals are brought into this country(USA) so unnecessarily, they are bred, raised in horrific, nightmarish conditions, and then finally placed in neat little plastic packages for consumers to find attractive and tantalizing.

Please don't continue this. You are the consumer. You make the choice. Create peace through what you eat. Don't eat meat, chicken, fish, or anything that came from an animal, including dairy. You are only hurting yourself, your environment, and the animals.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. GG replied. Nice thinking Uma.
But I can already feel a growing number of flesh-eaters in India and abroad. Trouble is, they feel it manly or righteous to be so.
I was trying to understand from a non-veggie why it was difficult to increase sympathy to animals and she like many other christians I've known said that her being a non-vegetarian gives such animals a purpose in life!
I felt dumb-struck .. how can one argue against such naivety?
So my suggestion is... do what you can to promote ending cruelty to animals but be prepared to not get good results.
I'm trying on my part but am not very optimistic myself.