Let it be like a plant

Kailey 2022-11-08 16:16:00

Species discrimination. racial discrimination. Sexism. Human beings start from what they have the most personal experience. After efforts and achievements in gender, equality between men and women is developing for the better. The worst consequences of racial discrimination are massacres, Japan against China, Germany against Jews, these massacres are still in
retrospect

. The reason why these will slowly change, because we have the same sense of touch, we hear the voice of the abused party, Images, words, especially the psychological process, can be transformed into our inner pain, empathy, avoid being killed, so do not kill; hope for happiness, so hope for peace. However, when will we hear the voices of other species?

I don't like pigs in particular. It's not a species discrimination. I have seen large-scale pig farming, eating vegetarian food and developing into meat, which is just a converter of food and meat. Eating, excreting, growing flesh, and procreating, except for the pain, I don't think it is like a life. All this is human breeding technology to transform pigs into this. So, can human beings work hard and really transform an animal so that when it dies, it does not know that it is dead? Just like plants. Grow up, bloom, give birth to cubs, and grow old.

Let me see the flesh without thinking of the pain of it dying

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    title card: earth-ling n. - One who inhabits the earth.

    Narrator: Since we all inhabit the earth, we are all considered earthlings. There is no sexism, racism, or speciesism in the term 'earthling'. It encompasses each and every one of us: warm- or cold-blooded, mammal, vertebrate or invertebrate, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish and human alike.

  • Narrator: It is the human earthling who tends to dominate the earth, oftentimes treating other fellow earthlings and living beings as mere objects. This is what is meant by 'speciesism'. By analogy with racism and sexism, speciesism is a prejudice or attitude or bias in favor of the interests of the members of one's own species and against those of members of other species.