Modern Life Is Founded on Disregard For Life and Nature
Modern life is characterized by a total lack of reverence towards life, both human and non-human.
Inspite of the availability of so much food, billions of animals are mercilessly raised, transported and slaughtered every year. The reactions are equally severe. Human beings also die in riots, bombings and wars in the same brutal fashion.
When a few birds or cows fall sick, we murder millions of them in the name of culling. These things have no precedent in human history. This is holocaust and cold blooded murder. In God’s kingdom, all beings have the right to live and one has to pay dearly for killing even an ant unnecessarily. Time is coming when people will ‘cull’ a whole race or country when they get infected with a disease.
Institutionalization Of Barbarism, Industrialization Of Cruelty
Cruelty has existed in human society since time immemorial but in modern times, it has become industrialized. Cruelty has taken the shape of a global industry and the world has never witnessed such institutionalization of barbarism. People always killed animals for food, entertainment or fur etc. but killing in mechanized industrial slaughterhouses is a modern invention. Animals were never transported thousands of miles for killing and neither ever existed global marketing networks in animal products.
Perhaps this millennium has been the bloodiest of all human history. For about forty years after the discovery of the New World (America), it was legal to hunt down the natives like animals. It was only in 1530 that the Pope conceded that American Indians were human!
This is what Aime Cesaire wrote in 1955 in “Discours sur le colonialisme'' while trying to put the horrors of Hitler in perspective:
“What the very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century cannot forgive Hitler for is not the crime in itself, the crime against humanity, not the humiliation of humanity itself, but the crime against the white man...; it is the crime of having applied to Europe the colonialist actions as were borne uptil now by the Arabs, the coolies of India and the negroes of Africa.''
Inspite of the availability of so much food, billions of animals are mercilessly raised, transported and slaughtered every year. The reactions are equally severe. Human beings also die in riots, bombings and wars in the same brutal fashion.
When a few birds or cows fall sick, we murder millions of them in the name of culling. These things have no precedent in human history. This is holocaust and cold blooded murder. In God’s kingdom, all beings have the right to live and one has to pay dearly for killing even an ant unnecessarily. Time is coming when people will ‘cull’ a whole race or country when they get infected with a disease.
Institutionalization Of Barbarism, Industrialization Of Cruelty
Cruelty has existed in human society since time immemorial but in modern times, it has become industrialized. Cruelty has taken the shape of a global industry and the world has never witnessed such institutionalization of barbarism. People always killed animals for food, entertainment or fur etc. but killing in mechanized industrial slaughterhouses is a modern invention. Animals were never transported thousands of miles for killing and neither ever existed global marketing networks in animal products.
Perhaps this millennium has been the bloodiest of all human history. For about forty years after the discovery of the New World (America), it was legal to hunt down the natives like animals. It was only in 1530 that the Pope conceded that American Indians were human!
This is what Aime Cesaire wrote in 1955 in “Discours sur le colonialisme'' while trying to put the horrors of Hitler in perspective:
“What the very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century cannot forgive Hitler for is not the crime in itself, the crime against humanity, not the humiliation of humanity itself, but the crime against the white man...; it is the crime of having applied to Europe the colonialist actions as were borne uptil now by the Arabs, the coolies of India and the negroes of Africa.''
