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ET ARRIVES!
We humans feel that because we are more intellectually advanced than all other creatures here on earth that we therefore
have the right to do with them as we wish, including killing them and eating them.
Suppose we finally realize our dream of contacting extraterrestrial life. ET arrives here on earth, in a far advanced
craft. They are themselves far advanced as the earth is relatively young in the universe and any beings from another
world would most assuredly have been around much longer and be far advanced to us. Since they communicate telepathically
and we cannot communicate with them, they look at the killing going on here on earth amongst humans, our lack of ability to
communicate with them, and decide that they are far superior intellectually. Then by our reasoning with our own fellow
creatures, they should be able to kill and eat us.
"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals." -- Albert Einstein
“But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion
of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.” — Plutarch (in Moralia)
(46-120)
“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling
to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it
is to protection by man from the cruelty of man." — Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Life is as dear to a mute
creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures." --
The Dalai Lama
"Spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures
for the sat isfaction of our bodily wants." -- Mohatma Gandhi
“The soul is the same in all living creatures,
although the body of each is different.” — Hippocrates (460?-370? BC)
“Never
believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot
help themselves.” — Dr. Louis J. Camuti (1893-1981)
"I have no doubt that it is a
part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals." -- Henry David Thoreau
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