They set traps and poison us, and encourage the most brutish of their kind to hunt us for sport. Perhaps they discover that our skin makes nice shoes and handbags. Perhaps they decorate their homes with the preserved heads of our dead, hung upon the wall. Before you email me that I am anthropomorphizing human feelings onto other species, understand that I do not state that these other species experience life exactly in the same way as we do. Yet, a mammal is a mammal when it comes to motherly love, feelings of pain, and fear of death.
All beings tremble before violence.
All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Vegetarianism Since the Internet is currently being utilized by many of the more intelligent and progressive people on the planet, it comes as no shock to discover that large numbers of us are vegan or vegetarian. By now, most of us realize that a vegetarian diet is not only healthier, but more compassionate, and far more ecologically sound. Here in the states, we are surrounded by non-flesh foods.