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the bullfighter. Is it not a sign of degenerating values if "tormenting" animals provide to Man a seeming kind of pleasure and kick?
No wonder then if addiction to violence and criminality is flourishing all around particularly in societies consuming nonvegetarian food.
However, it needs to be taken into account that nonvegetarian food habits or for that matter any kind of violence is not sanctioned by any faith or religion. Meat eating has grown on the facetious assumptions of human exploitative complex and the need for so-called powerful nourishment to become physically strong. It is not related to the concerned religion of which meat eaters may be followers.
It is also somewhat quixotic that meat-eaters invariably eat the meat of vegetarian animals. Vegetarian animals like elephants and horses are by no means weak, but are strong. It is also interesting that vegetarian animals live in a community life, but invariably non-vegetarian animals like tigers live more as erratic and aggressive individuals.
As a species capable of profound introspection, humans need to outgrow such cruel mentality. After all human being have been around on the Earth for less than 100000 years. For most of the time, the majority of food was gathered by women and it was in the form of pulses, fruits and vegetables. Now that humanity has crossed over 6 billion mark growing population pressure should not lead to higher meat consumption since it would upset the nature's balance of life systems.
It needs also to be realized that to produce non-vegetarian food, animal rearing has become a flourishing industry in the world. This industry has tragically ignored that animals have also souls, sensitivities and emotions. A study done in USA has concluded that this way there is much greater drain on natural resources because to produce a single pound of meat takes an
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