J u s t ice De n i e d
little more than five years old – one quartera triumph of marketing and consumerism
of her natural lifespan.over compassion and caring and their massive
advertising spend distorts reality and
What does it do to man’s spirit to constantlyprolongs the suffering.
dispense death, coldly and calculatedly to a
little creature that has not even tasted life,Even in the wild, at sea, trawlers criss-cross the
only confusion and fear? w o r l d ’s oceans, their trawl boards crushing
everything on the sea bed
Knowledge has
that has the misfortune to be
become an obstacle
in their path. Much of what is
caught is either bycatch –
to be circumvented
thrown back into the sea
dead and dying – or turned
rather than the
into fish meal to feed other
lodestone to chart
animals in an orgy of
i n e ff i c i e n c y. Those fish
our path
destined for human food
have a knife thrust into them
It is against this background that farmers’and are disemboweled while still alive. But
protestations have to be weighed whent h a t ’s al right because fish don’t feel pain!
responding to criticism – claims that they love
their animals and see welfare as paramount.Who could ever have conceived of such an
It is against this background that the cynicismexcuse and who would have believed that so
of quality assurance schemes have to be many people would be taken in by it?
judged – the Little Red Tractor, AssuredKnowledge has become an obstacle to be
British Meat (be it pork, lamb, beef or circumvented rather than the lodestone to
chicken) and Freedom Food. They constitutechart our path. And so the rape of the
oceans continues even though we know that
collapse awaits this side of the horizon.
The world has existed for nearly five billion
years during which time various life forms
have developed and evolved. From the earliest
sea life to the most complex mammals, such as
apes, they have all had one thing in common
– they have lived within their environment,
part of it and dependent upon it.
On the African plains, a cheetah chases a
Thomson’s gazelle. She has evolved to live
largely on this one creature and she chases
because she has no choice – it is that or die.
Both creatures match each other closely for
speed and turning ability, which ensures that
it is largely the weak, the old or the injured
Disemboweled whilst still alive – trawler-caught who are caught. Similarly a cheetah who is
fish destined for the dinner plate slow will not survive and nor will her cubs.
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