Nonsynonymous
Pro-life means more than just anti-abortion. I don’t know how they came to be known as one in the same, but they aren’t synonymous. Anti-abortion is just that: the opinion that abortion should be abolished. Pro-life much more broad spectrum. When I say I am Pro-life, I’m saying that all life is precious. It encompasses more than fetuses. Its about young men and women in combat, its about animals in slaughterhouses, and its about starving children in Niger.
In my opinion, the terms coined for these issues are inconclusive. Pro-choice and pro-life mean so much more than pro-abortion anti-abortion.
Words are powerful. Say what you mean, not what society wants you to think is what you mean.
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Rediscovering Your World
If you could step into another world, and meet its inhabitants, eat its food, hear its music, breathe its air, you would return to your own world with a different respect. A wider horizon, if you will.
Or, imagine your own world as a foreign place. Treat everything you experience as fresh. Monotony makes even the most incredible things seem dull. But you can revive the human experience.
Try to humble yourself for a moment, and realize that you are only a tiny speck in the whole of your world. When you begin to understand that, and then you look up into the sky and realize that your world is only a tiny speck in the whole of the universe, you become really humble. The amount of detail in every aspect of our universe is nearly incomprehensible.
Recently I began reading a book on this subject called The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore. So far I’m enjoying it thoroughly.
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Cruel to Animals, Cruel to People, Cruel to the World – V
Section V – Conclusion
Vegetarianism, or at least a major change in the food industry and the way we perceive what we eat, is not foolish – it’s a solution. It can mean healthy people, a healthy earth, happy animals, an end to world hunger, and a step towards a more peaceful planet. We are meant to be the stewards of the earth, and protect its inhabitants. For those still unable to become full-fledged vegetarians, a step in the right direction would be to at least drastically reducing the amount of meat consumed. Any meat that is produced by an animal that is drugged with chemicals, raised in an unnatural and gross habitat, or brutally slaughtered should not be available to consumers. Many Christians believe that God gave us animals for food, which is difficult to argue. But how is it holy to consume the meat produced in such a way that causes such suffering, and how many would be willing to slaughter that animal themselves, or even witness the gruesome process of mass slaughter, and then eat that meat. “A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.”-Proverbs 12:10. And would God condone widespread destruction of his creation caused in order for these mass-killings to take place. Mass production is not an option – not if the human race wishes to sustain an liveable environment on this planet.
So, what can be done to transition our culture into a more suitable diet for ourselves and our planet, and what can be done to decrease the amount of destruction caused by the production of food animal products? We can create laws that enforce natural, clean living conditions for food animals to reduce suffering, as well as the amount of chemicals used to keep animals alive. We can require humane methods of slaughter, as Sweden has. We can reduce the amount of meat produced, and practice soil fertility management instead of wastefully over exerting land until it is barren. We can make a difference, and we must.
We are meant to be stewards of the earth, and protect its inhabitants. Are you doing your part?
Albert Einstein summed it up brilliantly when he said “Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
