Animal Slaughter

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Over 56 billion farmed animals are slaughtered every year by humans. These shocking figures do not even include fish and other sea creatures whose deaths are so great they are only measured in tonnes.

It is estimated that, each year: 970 – 2,700 billion fish are caught from the wild, of which. 450 – 1,000 billion fish are caught to make fishmeal and fish oil. 37 – 120 billion farmed fish are killed for food.

Animals and fish are not simply food products, but beings that think and feel, who want to enjoy their lives. An animal's life is as important and irreplaceable to them, as ours is to us. But as children we are conditioned to view cows, pigs, chickens, sheep and fish as inferior beings whose reason for existence is to provide us with meat, milk and eggs. This way of seeing other species is known as speciesism. It's time for us to change the way we see the other animals with which we share the planet. We need to stop thinking of them as just resources, and to start viewing them for who they are: individual sentient beings whose lives deserve to be respected and valued.

Guru Nanak Sahib Ji said;

ਜੀਅ ਜੰਤ ਸਭਿ ਮਾਸਹੁ ਹੋਏ ਜੀਇ ਲਇਆ ਵਾਸੇਰਾ ॥
Jī▫a janṯ sabẖ māsahu ho▫e jī▫e la▫i▫ā vāserā ||
All beings and creatures are flesh; the soul has taken up its home in the flesh.

ਅਭਖੁ ਭਖਹਿ ਭਖੁ ਤਜਿ ਛੋਡਹਿ ਅੰਧੁ ਗੁਰੂ ਜਿਨ ਕੇਰਾ ॥
Abẖakẖ bẖakẖėh bẖakẖ ṯaj cẖẖodėh anḏẖ gurū jin kerā ||
They eat the uneatable; they reject and abandon what they could eat. They have a teacher who is blind.

~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, Guru Nanak, Ang 1290

Guru Angad Sahib Ji said;

ਜੀਆ ਕਾ ਆਹਾਰੁ ਜੀਅ ਖਾਣਾ ਏਹੁ ਕਰੇਇ ॥
Jī▫ā kā āhār jī▫a kẖāṇā ehu kare▫i ||
Animals eat other animals; this is what God has given them as food.

~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, Guru Nanak, Ang 1290

Bhagat Kabir said;

ਕਬੀਰ ਖੂਬੁ ਖਾਨਾ ਖੀਚਰੀ ਜਾ ਮਹਿ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤੁ ਲੋਨੁ ॥
Kabīr kẖūb kẖānā kẖīcẖrī jā mėh amriṯ lon ||
Kabir, the dinner of beans and rice is excellent, if it is flavored with salt.

ਹੇਰਾ ਰੋਟੀ ਕਾਰਨੇ ਗਲਾ ਕਟਾਵੈ ਕਉਨੁ ॥੧੮੮॥
Herā rotī kārne galā katāvai ka▫un ||
Who would cut his throat, to have meat with his bread?

~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, Bhagat Kabir, Ang 1374

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