the act that goes unrealized

While a plate of well cooked, deliciously appealing beef may sound an amazing meal, that piece of meat suffered and went through a lot of pain to reach this destination. No one heard his cries when he prayed not to be killed. Every tear drop that fell from his eye would have contained pains unmeasurable, prayers asking for mercy. No one felt the pain when his blood got drained and flesh removed even before his heart stopped beating.  There is nothing unlawful, nothing that makes us look ugly in enjoying the beautifully prepared dish. But the truth is; we are all just a merciless, selfish, greedy and heartless flesh eater and blood sucker.Thoughtfully speaking, we humans are the most frightening creature to ever have walked this planet.

Just the other day, my mates were discussing on how horrible it is to kill animals in the name of worshiping a figure. It so happened that a neighbour of ours has this tradition of having to actually kill a goat with their own hand and worship some sort of a god. So back at my place, my friends got into discussion on how wrong the act is. Basically they were just trying to say, the person is a heartless killer and condemning the sort of religion. Well this is so wrong; i agree but let us not blame religion. Blame those sick people who had it misinterpreted. Religions (any/all) lost its essence since the time when their followers started killing and discriminating each other in the name of religion. (Back to my talk)  The irony here is, these people are hard core non-veg themselves.  What is so a big difference in being the butcher and the consumer? As a matter of fact, I am a non-veg as well.

Now you see when a child is born. He is an innocent soul, an angle dropped straight from heaven. Under care and protection of his parents he starts seeing the world. The world he experiences at that stage is a perfect one. In that perfect world he gets to enjoy the best of everything. When a child is served with a well prepared meat, the only thing that turns him on is the taste. He is too innocent and young to wonder about what it takes for the piece of meat to come to him. The ugly act of killing goes unrealized for this child as he grows old because he has been eating meat from the very beginning and now eating meat has become just so normal to him.

Would there have been any difference if the child was exposed to the act of killing prior to serving? Haven’t we lost the right to say ‘I love animals’, the day we started enjoying their flesh. If being compassionate means being able to feel somebody else’s pain, then i wonder..?? Irony, the world is its best example. 
(inspired by KFC exposed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABMlrQOywM8&feature=share )