Fwd: Humanities Heinous/Bizarre War On Birds!
Hi all,
I thought you might be interested in this article. I
was thinking the very same thing when I was watching
MSNBC the other night and they showed these men all
decked out in nuclear waste-type outfits casually
stuffing live birds into garbage bags. The commentator
did not make one mention of how tragic this bird flu
epidemic was for the birds.
Something has GOT to change.
Jennifer
The price of the crime
We read it in the newspapers; we hear it on the radio
every day, every hour. Hundreds of thousands--nay,
millions--of chickens, geese, ducks and turkeys are
being pitilessly exterminated all over the world.
We see them on television running for their lives,
desperately flapping their wings; we hear their cries
of terror as they are brutally grasped by men in masks
and overalls. They are piled on top of each other in
containers to be gassed, burned alive, or thrown into
pits and buried alive.
And we accept it. There is no outcry, no protest, no
scream of indignation. Even the World Federation for
the Protection of Animals (WFPA) is keeping quiet.
Nobody DARES to accuse the administrations who are
responsible for this...to speak up and object that
this is not a way to treat sensitive, living beings.
No one DARES to protest that this is a crime
conferring a heavy collective guilt for which we
unfailingly will have to pay.
The price may be the loss of our migratory birds,
along with devastating and unimaginable consequences
for the environment--and for our own survival.
"Migratory birds with their potential to spread avian
flu" have suddenly become the mortal enemies of man.
�Killerenten��� � killer ducks � is the
name given by a popular Swiss newspaper to the
innocent wild ducks and geese flying into our lands at
this time to pass the winter on our lakes.
And in certain eastern European countries we can
already see hoards of humans roaming about destroying
bird nests in panic-stricken hysteria over some
hypothetic virus. In blind and furious determination,
they are demolishing and burning down nesting areas
and barricading all openings to cow sheds with netting
and meshing to stop swallows from building their nests
under the roofs and beams � a clear death sentence
for that already heavily- threatened species.
What in heaven���s name has yet to happen before
we recognize in our unrestrained consumption of meat
and our abject and highly dangerous methods of factory
farming the very source of our misery? How much more
hardship, suffering, and catastrophe still need to
occur before we understand that the vile and stupid
maxim of �mankind before all else��� is
pitching us headlong toward utter ruination?
October 2005
Franz Weber Foundation
1820 Montreux
Switzerland
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