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Just who is it that lacks feeling here?

Just who is it that lacks feeling here?

Re: "Vegetarian study was just a hypothesis", "Enough preaching on murder of animals", and "Cycle of life: we're all cannibals", Letters, October 21.

 

No one deserves to have his throat slit for your palate preference. Eric may just be compassionate for animals, who don’t deserve to live in cramped filthy cages, unable to turn around for their entire life, only to be slaughtered violently, just for the taste of meat on your tongue. If you just listen, you will learn, but if you just argue because you can’t give something up, you will not learn, or change anything.
Non-human animals feel (I’m using “non-human” because we all are animals). John Arnone said we don’t know how they feel. Maybe you just want to turn a blind eye. If they can’t feel, why do cows mourn separation from or the death of other cows, even shedding tears? Countless reports describe cows frantically calling and searching for their calves after they’ve been taken away and sold as veal. 
I don’t know Eric personally, but I have known many people who are thin but very healthy.
To John Shepherd: We are not cannibals because our children eat us. There is no life to be found in the trees. The only life in the trees is the trees themselves. The word “cannibal” implies killing and torturing – neither of which exist in your argument. After all, Osho was vegetarian. Another thought from Osho: “I don’t teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has existed, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years.”
To Thomas Turk: Yes, plants have emotions, but they don’t have central nervous systems, through which non-humans and humans feel physical pain. Even though organic meat contains no pesticides, growth hormones or antibiotics, organic labels can be misleading. Most organic and free-range farms cram thousands of animals together in sheds or mud-filled lots to increase profit, and the animals often suffer the same mutilation. Cows’ udders often become infected from frequent, forced milking, but they are denied medicine because farmers then couldn’t sell the milk as organic.
I won’t argue with you about health studies of vegetarianism. All I know is I’ve been vegan for 12 years – my constipation, breathing allergy and skin allergy are all gone. I had my hand scanned with an anti-oxidant detection machine, my result was 80,000 out of 100,000, while almost all of my friends got 10,000 to 20,000. 
My health check revealed I had very high “good” cholesterol and very low “bad” cholesterol, again in contrast to some of my meat-eating friends, who need treatment for this. By the way, I don’t care how many health benefits I get from being vegan – as long as I eat a healthy diet with variety, which makes meat unnecessary, and as long as I’m not the cause of any living being’s agony. But words cannot explain this. Open your eyes by watching slaughterhouse footage. No animal deserves to live and die horribly for your taste buds.
Nuntanit Bumrungsap
Bangkok
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