Christ driven influencer, advocate and soldier for a "Reverence for Life" , the ethos that is the love of Jesus bestowed universally. Blogger and Author of the For Our Friends the Animals quartet. Cancer survivor!
#nytimes #pigs #dogs #torture #anthropocentrism #speciesism #perfidy #inconsistency #selfishness #collectivism #love #life #reverenceforlife #loveofJesus My dear friends, following is a response I have posted twice in regards to the apparently unresolved conundrum of why humans love dogs and torture pigs and numerous other examples of God's creation. You need seek an answer no farther than existing and overweening human perfidy, irresolution, and inconsistency. We allow ourselves to be motivated by our pleasures, nor out sacred duty. "Nicholas Kristoff's searching [NYT] column "The Hypocrisy Of Our Love of Dogs" posits the proper query; namely, why do we accept the torture of pigs, then follows the question with a tangential condemnation of factory farming and meat packing. Those corporate establishments are but layovers along the sanguinary process that brings the flesh of dead animals to our table. As ought to be our wont in these matters, the sage apothegm of Pogo homes in on the true culprit: "We have met the enemy, and he is us." Rather than advance and adhere to a consistent ethos of dealing with other creatures that is motivated by their actuality, we wallow in self-centered satisfaction. That dogs should live pleases us; that pigs should die pleases us. And so it goes. The antidote is adoption of Dr. Albert Schweitzer's famous ethos of a reverence for life, the firm tenet that all life is possessed of innate worth and value, that no life may be relegated to a mere means to some human end, especially and end so narcissistic and unworthy as our own gustatory pleasure. The choice is ours."
