Value of Life.

Two scenarios: 1) A four months old human child tortured and murdered. 2) A calf ruthlessly slaughtered. One is buried in a casket, gets a full media coverage and the other gets served on your plate. Is that the value of  non human life?
How many of us do actually have the courage to see animals getting slaughtered and then be able to eat, wear or enjoy it? What are we? Who are we? Who gives us the right to kill or torture animals like that? We are the worst of our kind. We think of our selves as God who can decide when to kill and when to save. If you watch television or read they will show you the final product and where it comes from, how tender it is or delicious but they will never tell you how they are murdered. We know where the butcher shops are, but we don't know where the slaughter houses are. We say the meat is not good enough, its flesh that we are eating, animals had to give up their lives to be able to serve your appetite to be able to please you.
We debate about practising euthanasia on human lives but when it comes to animals we don't put in one thought. In places like Australia, I haven't seen one stray dog, what do you think happens to them. Surely, we are not stupid enough to think that they live a very happy life in shelters where they are put in cages, where they are denied of their basic extinct of freedom and running. and if they run out of shelters then what? they die. All this for what, so that WE are safe from disease etc.
A lot of people enjoy circuses, bullfights etc we pay money to go there and see animals get tortured. We see animals sitting on chairs, performing and find them so CUTE but just pause for one minute and give it a thought, what would make an animal do something so unnatural to it. Answer fear, torture. All the bulls that are forced to participate in bullfighting, you would think that they have gone crazy or its their natural selves but what that bull must have gone through to behave like that, it is confused it doesn't even know why its being treated like that. If the animals retaliate for their freedom in their own natural way they are labeled crazy and killed. They can't talk, they can't express themselves so we decide their fate.
They are hung upside down, then we slit their throats, scalded and burned while they are still alive. We humans think that they don't feel pain, that the jackets we wear, the leather couches we sit on, the food we eat comes from animals who might have been treated in a kind way, what is a kind way? They are killed, they have lost their freedom, they can't do anything because they are treated like objects.
$50 or less if we turn them into food, $500 or more if we turn them into objects to wear or sit on,  $25 to see them perform that is the value of non human life. And what about Zoos they epitomise insensitive and irrational behaviour. We go their to learn about their behaviour without realising its not even their natural habitat. They don't have the freedom to behave in their natural instinctive ways. Think about what they must feel, how sad and alone they must be. We all overjoyed over the birth of a new baby elephant in Melbourne zoo, but it is sad, very sad. That poor elephant will never know where it belongs, it can only dream of a place it has not even seen and reduced to live its pitiful life amongst the shrieking of children and the terrifying noises of cars and planes. Just imagine being in their place surrounded by unwanted spectators.
Often when I work in the restaurant I hear people say, oh not the veal its a baby cow so does it make any difference if we kill a cow or a baby cow or chicken? they are all living creatures and deserve to live.
If nature could take its revenge for what we have done to our fellow beings, who all are made from the same thing, have almost the same feeling or more we would not be alive. We have abused this planet earth. We don't deserve to live. They say survival of the fittest but this is more than survival. This is mass murder and we all have participated in it...just think about it.
Below is a clip from the documentary- Earthlings. I guess even if I try I cannot express myself in words. Please watch the movie and think about how far we have gone.