300 million turkeys are killed each year for Thanksgiving and Christmas. 300 million. First of all, not one of those turkeys should’ve had to go through the torture and slaughter that they did, but 300 million of them?! And humans think they’re kind, giving creatures, the saviors of the planet.
We all know that turkeys aren’t the only dead animal that’s going to be on America’s plates for the holidays. Killing 300 million of one kind is not enough. Just for the year, not even the holidays, 121 million pigs are killed for food. How about cows? 39 million. Chickens? You guessed it; 9 BILLION.
So if my math is right, that’s about 9,460,000,000 animals that are killed, because you like the taste of them. Animals, living things with brains and hearts and families, just like us. Keep in mind, those are just the most common animals Americans like to kill. There are many more, especially around the holidays, that are killed; sheep, fish, ducks, rabbit, deer, etc.
So when the “holidays” roll around, I usually cry and laugh more. I cry every time I see someone buy a plastic wrapped dead animal, one that was confined and torture and then had his throat slit so that he could be at the convenience of a humans taste buds. I laugh when people say things like “the most wonderful time of the year,” “season of giving,” “peace” and “joy.”
What’s wonderful about a genocide? What are you giving that is more important than the fact that you’re taking another living beings life? Where is the peace? And your joy? Is thanks to the fact that these animals are so harmless and vulnerable that they will continue to be taken advantage of by us terrible human beings. They won’t do a thing to you, but you’ll continue to pay someone to slit their throats for your selfish, greedy mouths.
I laugh at the songs and holiday cards that say “peace and joy,” because there is none. Your greed is causing more harm than you know. That dead cow on your plate? Was fed soy. That soy was produced on land that was formerly a rain forest but was knocked down to grow it. That soy, 97 percent of it is being fed to those cows that are going to be fattened so you can eat more of them. 97 percent is a lot. Enough to feed the starving world. Meanwhile, those cows and other livestock are producing so much methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide, they’re surpassing the impact of all vehicular transportation! So congrats on the new hybrid car, but your excessive need for bacon and a burger is actually killing the planet, and you!
I laugh when people get pets for Christmas. “I love animals!” No, you love pets. You feed into societal standards and hypocrisy by getting yourself an adorable puppy and naming her and loving her, while eating a dead pig, who is smarter and just as cute as your puppy.
There’s literally no difference in a puppy, pig, cow, chicken, rabbit, deer, fish, you, me. We all want to live. That is the basic principle of life; living. Murder is wrong human to human because we do not have the right to take someone else’s life, they have the right to live. There is no difference in another living thing with the same needs and desires as us.
Now I’m an atheist, (the biggest reason I never celebrated Christmas) but I do not understand how people during this time of the year can sit down and smile while eating a dead animal while believing themselves to be celebrating Jesus. For those who believe in God and the bible would know that “thou shall not kill.” What kind of god would be happy with us taking such advantage of his creatures and exploiting them so extremely? I can’t imagine it.
I can’t imagine that this is our life. That the whole world is like this, and for no reason other than ignorance and selfishness. I believe that if everyone was born without dead animals being shoved in their mouths, they’d be better people. The world would be a better place with such less violence. The holidays could be the most wonderful time of the year.
