Reply #17: We surround ourselves in blood in our daily lives. [View All]

That we do. Death surounds us each and every second, but for most of western society, we are insulated from it.
We, as a whole, do everything we can to seperate ourselves from the amount of death that our modern society costs. We look away from the aging and dying, most refusing to acknowledging the mortality of ourselves and others, while we worship youth.

And yes, our society has hidden from the masses the real "cost" of our food. Animals have become a commodity that we never see or need to acknowledge until the end product arrives between 2 buns. We never need to see the auctial animal, never need to acknowledge that a life was taken for that burger, or fish filet, never needing to acknowlegeing any gratefulness for the loss of that life to fuel our own. Some of us attempt to convince ourselves we are somehow better because we don't eat slaughtered meat, while ignoring the large numbers of innocent animals who are killed using modern harvesting techniques. A combine cares not if it is a stalk of corn, or a rabbit or sparrow. We eat our soy burgers, never thinking that animals probably died in the harvesting of the beans.. We don't consider that the bean plant was once a living thing, whose proteins are now becoming one with our body so we may live.

In the end, something must die so you may live. And, inevitably we shall die become fuel for something else. Our barbarism lies not in the fact the we must kill to servive, but in our desire to sanitise ourselves from the fact.

Something must die so you may live, Animal or vegitable. We should acknowledge that, and be grateful.

peace