Of this Earth

Of this Earth

There are many animals of this earth.  It is why we are so diverse.  It is what makes so wondrous this universe.  What is unfortunate is our need to feed.  What is unfortunate is that we kill for a meal and what is unfortunate is that many of us don't care about the error in our terror.

We tend to the flocks of meek sheep.  We lend sweat to the brow to raise a cow and we abominably overstuff our pigs so that we might eat all of the meat only to let fall to the floor that which we cannot consume anymore.  We don't even care about tossing scraps to the poor.

So what of that which we defeat to eat?  So what of the carrion that we dice to spice and garnish with rice and so what for we belch only to make more room to consume doom?  Most of us would be quiet as a mouse if we visited a slaughter house.

When the axe falls does nature call?  Are we sure we are so pure when we watch the buckskins cure?  Are we so malevolent that we cannot see the tragedy of lives cut short just so we can brandish our steely knives and short lived lives where we celebrate the history of stoking the rotisserie?  We act as though we'd be ashamed if we were caught to be fraught with the thought that for far too long we have been dead wrong.

There is no sense in tendering an apology when we now have the technology.  Indeed it is pathetic now that we have a clearer understanding of genetics.  This coupled with our understanding of nutrition demands the mission that we create that which we put on our plates.  We can fix the taste so as to remove that frown on your face and at the same time we could live longer and prove to be that much stronger.

What we could and should do is stop the slaughter of our wild kingdom just for the sake of a medium rare steak.  Yes this is hard because there is hypocrisy with regard to what you and I should do.  Our fellow brethren have no defense given that we've corralled most of them in a fence.  It's like we get a thrill out of roping and branding our next meal.  How would you feel if you were next to be killed?

There are many animals of this earth.  We treat them as if they are not of any worth.  We feel them to kill them over our need to feed and over our sense of greed.  We need to stop before the last weasel goes pop!  Our ambition should be to find another way to suffice our nutrition, otherwise the demise is written in their eyes.  Read it and heed it.

Orrin K. Loftin, Explorer

Copyright?  When even the lambs in Vietnam need to be saved from being damned.

April 6^th, 2015