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A colleague was urging another colleague to give up pork by claiming that pigs eat everything and anything, including their own faeces. I told her that\u2019s probably the case for many animals, as their living conditions before slaughter are horrifying – cramped up with little space to move about, stepping on the waste of one another… Farmers feed them with food that one would rather not know what\u2019s within. Some farmers even refuse to feed the animals a few days before slaughter.<\/p>\n
Driven by hunger, the animals have no choice but to eat what they can find on the floor. My colleague was taken aback, for she believed that all cows eat fresh grass instead of ‘sh*tty foods’. I almost felt bad for telling her the hard truth, but most cows do not graze happily in open fields like they do in commercials. Some do not get to see the sun till the very day they are transported to the slaughterhouse.<\/p>\n
What about fish, she asked. Fish feed on whatever they think is edible in the seas and pollution of the sea is no joke. How clean can the sea be by being the final destination of untreated sewage from drains around the world? Shocked, she finally claimed that all should all be like me – become vegetarians – since it seems to be the cleanest of all diets. I nodded and said that if possible go for organic, it would be even better, as organic foods are pesticide free.<\/p>\n
The above conversation made me realise that there are still many who do not know or simply refuse to educate themselves about the ‘food’ they put in their mouths. The ‘ignorance is bliss’ attitude is a real killer of personal health and animal welfare. Just how can blissful can ignorance be when the animals that become food were not really healthy or happy in the first place? Perhaps, if they were made to live in those conditions, they would have more empathy towards the animals? It\u2019s high time we stop poisoning ourselves and torturing the animals. Amituofo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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