The Price of the Crime

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28 October 2005 07:51

The price of the crime

 

The price of the crime

 

We read it in the newspapers, we hear it on the radio every day,

every hour, that 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 life, desperately

flapping their wings, we hear their cries of terror as they are

brutally grasped by men in masks and overalls, piled on top of each

other in containers and either gassed or 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 and raise their

voices to say out loud that this is not a way to treat sensitive,

living beings, and that this is a crime and a heavy collective guilt

for which we unfailingly will have to pay.

 

The price may be the loss of our migratory birds, along with the

devastating and unimaginable consequences for the environment and for

our own survival.

 

Migratory birds with their potential to spread avian flue 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 that are flying into our lands at this

time, day after day, to pass the winter on our lakes. And in certain

eastern European countries we can already see hoards of humans

roaming about destroying birds nests in panic-stricken fear of 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 of birds.

 

What in heaven's name has yet to happen before we recognise 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 catastrophes still need to occur before

we understand that the vile and stupid maxim of " mankind before all

else " is leading us to ruin?

 

October

2005

FRANZ WEBER FOUNDATION, Switzerland

 

 

Fondation Franz Weber

1820 Montreux

Switzerland

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Fax +41 (0) 21 964 57 36

 

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