“The single worst thing you can do to an animal emotionally is to make it feel afraid. Fear is so bad for animals I think it is worse than pain…Even an animal who’s completely alone and giving full expression to severe pain acts less incapacitated than an animal who’s scared…and an animal in a state of panic can’t function at all.”
- Temple Grandin, Animals in Translation
Animals on the way to slaughter hear the screaming and crying of other animals being slaughtered and become terrified. They know they are about to be killed and they are panic-stricken. Cows often kick stall walls in rage and frustration and literally cry out with grief.
Think of how you feel when you are angry, panic-stricken, or afraid. Bear in mind the physical feelings that accompany these emotions. These emotions – rage, panic, and fear- produce chemical changes in our bodies. They do the same to animals. Their blood pressures rise. Adrenaline courses through their bodies.
You are eating high blood pressure, stress, and adrenaline. You are eating rage, panic, and fear. You are eating suffering, horror, and murder. You are eating cruelty. You are what you eat.
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Lunch: An evol burrito and salad
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I believe it was “Diet For a New America” that introduced me to the concept of all of that heavy, terrified emotion and stressful energy being a regular part of our food – not to mention all of the disease, sickness and physical stress animals go through on a typical factory farm. Cheers to you for spreading the news…it really is something to think about.
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