It's 7:24pm. Cat in a blender. Those four words on their own are meaningless, but if searched on that little blue app can produce one of the most disgusting videos imaginable. I like to consider myself mostly apathetic to most things online, human gore, insensitive words, and videos of graphic pornography tends to leave me more entertained than truly stunned. The animal videos of beheadings, beatings, or animal cruelty is what gets me though.
More than once, humanity shows it's true colors in moments of boredom. To these people, animals are nothing but inferior playthings, to be tossed, thrown, gagged, and drowned as they see fit. In my opinion, it is what really defines humans. On twitter, I stumbled onto the video only by a meme page, one that poked fun at shocking people than to really cause harm.
It does disappoint me though, that this video circulates and conjures up the most goblin-esque type audience. Ones that truly enjoy the torture and mutilation of animals. In more ways than one, I see myself as objectively empathetic towards our mammalian friends, but there's a catch.
For since the ways of old, they served us as a means of sustenance. Butchering, frying, and sautéing flesh for a subtle taste of delicacy, seems at the time one of natures true gifts. At the same time, these gifts are given from beings capable of showing emotion. I remember seeing a picture of a PETA ad, where it is to illicit empathy from people, only to be mocked and shown pictures of flesh wrapped in plastic. I am disgusted, and surprised more often that humanity lives in a state of denial, too blinded by the high horse of how horrible their actions of the many they share.
"It's fine because Mary, Bob, Eric, and Victoria all are meat eaters. I don't have to think about it." I disagree, I think to really eat meat, we must fully embrace the slaughter, the butchering, the flesh being ripped from bone of the animal. Let us open our ears to the whines of cows being herded into a metal cage, to meet their ultimate demise. Oh, but suddenly it's "cruel" it's "inhumane" I'm suddenly "disgusted". How blind we are, truly, to such complete horrors of reality. So here I sit, poking at the red meat, delighted by the scent, and holding back my last dinner by the mere grace of god.
