Fear Factory - 5/24/2009

I've discussed fear before in greater detail than I will right now, but I've had a thought recently that's worthy of exploring further.  You see, I believe that animals are conscious.  Probably not like you or I, but I feel they operate from a collective unconscious and that they most certainly feel pain.  Regardless of ones spiritual beliefs, most people will concede that animals feel pain as a purely evolutionary imperative, as it ensures their survival when faced with danger.  They're not going to go walking into the jaws of a vicious predator because there's an awareness there.  A genetic memory of pain, and thus....to avoid this experience, there's the presence of fear.  Fear is what activates the fight or flight mechanism inherent in every conscious being.  So, since I've established that fear and pain exist within the animal kingdom (or at least I've established this theoretically through my own BELIEFS...bare with me here)....I have to ask, what kind of world are we creating with our present system of meat harvesting?

Surely the countless slaughterhouses throughout the world create some sort of negative energy.  There's no way that approximately 90,000 cows are butchered a day without spiritual repercussions.  And that's not taking into account all the sorts of other wildlife and domesticated animals that we slaughter for future consumption.  And there is no way you can compare this the hunter-gatherers of antiquity.  There's was a matter of survival, and there was no malicious intent underlying their actions.  Today, we harvest and breed vast quantities of domesticated animals simply to sell their meat and organs for profit.  It's not even about consumption anymore, not for those that are running the slaughterhouses.  It's all about money.  And the fear that these places create in the collective consciousness of the animal that is being raised and fed for the sole purpose of DYING is no doubt released into the ether to...what, disappear for eternity?  Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, so that fear has to go SOMEWHERE!!

Well guess what?  It goes into us, into our beings.  We consume it when we eat our hamburgers, or chicken breasts, our steaks, our bacon, our turkey, etc...  We breathe it in when we step outside, for the energy of death is all around us.  It is a palpable presence of fear and suffering that is perpetuated, not by some outside agents.  Not by a secret order of the powerful elite, nor archons, or demons, or anything our imaginations can create.  No, this energy is created exclusively by our actions, ones which we perform routinely again and again without caring about the consequences.  Well, you can see the state of the world.  Why is there so much pain, fear, and suffering in society?  Because we are inflicting those experiences on "lesser" mammals for personal gain, day in and day out.  This energy will never dissipate until we all become true vegetarians, or at least bring an end to the injustice and barbarism of death farms throughout the world.