TO KILL COW: MEANS TO END HUMAN CIVILIZATION
Legalized Terrorism - Animal Abuse And Killing
Barely a few years into it, the twenty-first century is already clearly marked as the “Age of Terrorism.” The attacks of September 11, 2001 marked a salient turning point in the history of the U.S. and indeed of global geopolitics. The U.S. declared its number one priority to be the “War on Terrorism,” and its domestic, national, and international policies have changed accordingly. In his address to the nation shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Bush used the terms “terror,” “terrorism,” and “terrorist” thirty-two times without ever defining what he meant.
In the amorphous name of “terrorism,” wars are being fought, geopolitical dynamics are shifting, the U.S. is aggressively reasserting its traditional imperialist role as it defies international law and world bodies, and the state is sacrificing liberties to “security.” One of the most commonly used words in the current vocabulary, “terrorism” is also one of the most abused terms. Steve Best defines terrorism “as any intentional act to injure or kill a living, sentient, innocent being for scientific, political or economic purposes." This is a sane, sensible and rational definition. Going by this definition, there are lot more terrorists in the world than those on FBI’s list. Practically every one fits as a terrorist in this definition.
Animals which are captured, enslaved, tortured and slaughtered are being "terrorized". Indeed animals are sentient - when they scream in labs, when they suffer in rodeos and when they stand before the butcher... they are all in terror of our brutal power over them.
Real Terrorism
In this way, not all terrorists fight with guns and bombs, and not all terrorists fight strictly for political gain. There are men and women in this world who are terrorists in another real sense.
Virtually all definitions of terrorism, even by “progressive” human rights champions, outright banish from consideration the most excessive violence of all—that which the human species unleashes against all nonhuman species. Speciesism is so ingrained and entrenched in the human mind that the human mass murder of animals does not even appear on the conceptual radar screen. Any attempt to perceive nonhuman animals as innocent victims of violence and human animals as terrorists is rejected with derision.
Nations As Terrorist States
But if terrorism is linked to intentional violence inflicted on innocent persons for ideological, political, or economic motivations, and nonhuman animals also are “persons”—subjects of a life—then the human war against animals is terrorism. Every individual who terrifies, injures, tortures, and/or kills an animal is a terrorist; fur farms, factory farms, foie gras, vivisection, and other exploitative operations are terrorist industries; and governments that support these industries are terrorist states. The true weapons of mass destruction are the gases, rifles, stun guns, cutting blades, and forks and knives used to experiment on, kill, dismember, and consume animal bodies.
The anti-terror crusader, US alone kills more than one million animals per hour which are cruelly raised, handled, transported, stocked and killed.
Each year in USA alone,
• Over 10 billion farmed animals are killed for food consumption (which translates to over 1 million animals per hour);
• 17–70 million animals are killed for testing and experimentation;
• Over 100 million are killed for hunting; and
• 7–8 million animals are trapped or raised in confinement for their fur.
Mahatma Gandhi was right when he said, “the greatness of a nation is judged by the way it treats its animals”.
Barely a few years into it, the twenty-first century is already clearly marked as the “Age of Terrorism.” The attacks of September 11, 2001 marked a salient turning point in the history of the U.S. and indeed of global geopolitics. The U.S. declared its number one priority to be the “War on Terrorism,” and its domestic, national, and international policies have changed accordingly. In his address to the nation shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Bush used the terms “terror,” “terrorism,” and “terrorist” thirty-two times without ever defining what he meant.
In the amorphous name of “terrorism,” wars are being fought, geopolitical dynamics are shifting, the U.S. is aggressively reasserting its traditional imperialist role as it defies international law and world bodies, and the state is sacrificing liberties to “security.” One of the most commonly used words in the current vocabulary, “terrorism” is also one of the most abused terms. Steve Best defines terrorism “as any intentional act to injure or kill a living, sentient, innocent being for scientific, political or economic purposes." This is a sane, sensible and rational definition. Going by this definition, there are lot more terrorists in the world than those on FBI’s list. Practically every one fits as a terrorist in this definition.
Animals which are captured, enslaved, tortured and slaughtered are being "terrorized". Indeed animals are sentient - when they scream in labs, when they suffer in rodeos and when they stand before the butcher... they are all in terror of our brutal power over them.
Real Terrorism
In this way, not all terrorists fight with guns and bombs, and not all terrorists fight strictly for political gain. There are men and women in this world who are terrorists in another real sense.
Virtually all definitions of terrorism, even by “progressive” human rights champions, outright banish from consideration the most excessive violence of all—that which the human species unleashes against all nonhuman species. Speciesism is so ingrained and entrenched in the human mind that the human mass murder of animals does not even appear on the conceptual radar screen. Any attempt to perceive nonhuman animals as innocent victims of violence and human animals as terrorists is rejected with derision.
Nations As Terrorist States
But if terrorism is linked to intentional violence inflicted on innocent persons for ideological, political, or economic motivations, and nonhuman animals also are “persons”—subjects of a life—then the human war against animals is terrorism. Every individual who terrifies, injures, tortures, and/or kills an animal is a terrorist; fur farms, factory farms, foie gras, vivisection, and other exploitative operations are terrorist industries; and governments that support these industries are terrorist states. The true weapons of mass destruction are the gases, rifles, stun guns, cutting blades, and forks and knives used to experiment on, kill, dismember, and consume animal bodies.
The anti-terror crusader, US alone kills more than one million animals per hour which are cruelly raised, handled, transported, stocked and killed.
Each year in USA alone,
• Over 10 billion farmed animals are killed for food consumption (which translates to over 1 million animals per hour);
• 17–70 million animals are killed for testing and experimentation;
• Over 100 million are killed for hunting; and
• 7–8 million animals are trapped or raised in confinement for their fur.
Mahatma Gandhi was right when he said, “the greatness of a nation is judged by the way it treats its animals”.
This crime against creation will never go unpunished. Ordinary laws can be circumvented and courts can be bribed but no one can escape the stringent laws of material nature. Unnecessary killing of even an ant is a serious crime.
It is just a question of time before we pay through our nose for all this mischief. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine.
It is just a question of time before we pay through our nose for all this mischief. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine.
