Wednesday, July 4, 2007

...and we talk about mercy

Ever wonder how many times in our life all talk about the word Mercy? We use this word a lot of times but we hardly know what it means because we are so narrow minded. We assume that this word is meant only for human beings and not for innocent animals.

Pigs are roasted alive in many parts of the world. Does it not feel pain?

In Norway, baby seals are killed by smashing its head with an iron rod. This is a 'Winter Sport' and there are some heartless tourists who visit Norway only to "Murder innocent Baby Seals". Shame on them.

Animals are murdered in the name of religion (by the way this is prevalent in all religions).

Lobsters are boiled alive in a cooker. Imagine yourself in a Sauna for more than 15 minutes, which is 1/1000 the intensity of the cooker. Does it not deserve MERCY?
In Goa, there is a popular sport, where a piglet (baby pig) is skinned alive. They first tie all four legs of the piglet, and then they rip open its skin by their mouth (piglet is still alive). Imagine when you were trying to cut vegetables and the knife cuts the edge of your finger, how much you cried in pain. Now imagine the amount of paing the piglet (a child) endures when people are biting it and skinning it alive.

In the so-called developed world, where even murdering animals is automated. In the "modern" slaughter houses, the cows are suspended by their hind legs and a machine slits the throat. Even before the cow is dead, another part of the machine starts to remove the skin off. We call ourselves civilized, but we are still as barbaric as our ancestors were.

Crabs are killed by frying them alive on a hot frying pan with oil in it. Imagine when a drop of oil fell on your forearm while you were cooking. You cried in pain and applied the cream to heal it. Now imagine the pain the crabs suffer while their whole body is being burnt with burning hot oil.

It is a shame that we do all these inhuman acts and still expect God to forgive us. Talking about Mercy is not what matters, but what matters most is to practice it. The word Mercy does not apply only to humans but even to the innocent animals around us.

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