I came across this site whilst looking to compare notes with others and am surprised to see those who take the supposed moral high ground – why are you even looking at this site? If I understand correctly, the countless beetles/slugs/snails consumed by these birds should also have the right to a judge and jury????

Please let us all live the way we want to – we all enjoy different things and should never make others ‘comply’ with what we personally think is right and wrong (provided it is within the law).

Merry Christmas, enjoy your festivites and meal – whatever you might be eating, and don’t forget those who are less fortunate than yourselves.

“These birds were beautiful in so many ways, they were massive birds each with different plumage and colored feet”….How de-sensitized, how lacking in compassion and emotionally dead are those who are capable of taking the lives of these magnificent creatures, just to turn them into a slab of dead meat for the dinner table; just to satisfy the insatiable appetites of deluded, misguided, arrogant, self-anointed “slow food mavens”! When the process leading to the slaughter of a feeling, intelligent, sentient being is defined as “an amazing experience, humane, healthy, natural” it becomes necessary to question the moral/ethical foundations of such a view. To those who understand, ordering and/or participating in the execution of an innocent, fully sentient being, is an act of murder. Who and what gave YOU the right to determine that it is OK to kill another living being?

Unfortunately, our Christian traditions, do not include compassion and mercy for all living creatures. For the 45 million victims of the Thanksgiving Day Massacre, the only hope for our species is a shift in moral/religious views, to one that values and cherishes the sanctity of ALL life. There can be no place in a modern society that values “liberty and justice for all” in archaic rituals, superstitions, traditions and beliefs that demand the sacrifice of the lives of “others”.

“It is the essential characteristic of a wise person that he/she does not kill any living being. One should know that non-killing and equality of all living beings are the main principles of religion” Jain sutra

” Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.”
~ His Holiness The Dalai Lama

“It is clear that we have reached a time in the “evolution” of our species, where there exists a great divide between those with conscience, clarity and compassion and those who continue to dwell in the dark, dank caves of inhumanity, ignorance, cruelty and indifference. How much longer can we wait???”

There remains a group who are so persistently abused and marginalised that their suffering is ingrained in our everyday lives. If animals could talk, their chorus of cries would drown out every other noise in the world. We are all animals. We are all living, breathing beings who share the same Earth. We all feel pain and suffer when we are hurt or deprived of our lives, our families, our freedom; we all have the right to experience kindness, compassion and dignity.”