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holocaust and PETA

PETA wants to stimulate contemplation of how the victimization of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and others characterized as “life unworthy of life” during the Holocaust parallels the way that modern society abuses and justifies the slaughter of animals. Just as the Nazis tried to “dehumanize” Jews by forcing them to live in filthy, crowded conditions, tearing children away from their mothers, and killing them in assembly-line fashion, animals on today’s factory farms are stripped of all that is enjoyable and natural to them and treated as nothing more than meat-, egg-, and milk-producing “machines.” Hens are crammed on top of each other in small wire cages that do not afford them enough room even to lie down and have their beaks burned off with a hot blade to keep them from pecking each other for space. Pigs are kept in extremely narrow, barren, concrete-floored stalls and are castrated and have their tails cut off without painkillers. Calves raised for veal are torn from their mothers within hours of birth, causing acute distress to both mother and calf, and chained inside tiny, dark stalls, where their joints swell from trying to balance on slippery, waste-covered slats.

“The very same mindset that made the Holocaust possible—that we can do anything we want to those we decide are ‘different’ or ‘inferior’—is what allows us to commit atrocities against animals every single day,” says PETA Campaign Coordinator Matt Prescott, members of whose family were murdered by the Nazis. “We are asking people to allow understanding into their hearts and compassion onto their tables by embracing a nonviolent, vegan diet that respects other forms of life.”

There were several comments made about how it’s extremely unethical to compare the animals being killed in the meat/dairy industry to the human beings killed in the Holocaust. It is common knowledge that PETA uses photos of the Holocaust to show a resemblance between the suffering of a people and the suffering of a species. However, just because a comparison is being made, does not imply that those at PETA think the Holocaust is less of a tragedy. What it does imply is that in suffering, humans and animals are both capable of sentient feelings. They both feel pain, and both mass murders (for no matter how you feel about eating meat, you must admit that the industry does kill these animals) were commited or are being commited to a population of beings that are suffering.

I believe that the killing of animals in factory for all these years is far worse than the Holocauste which only lasted a few years. The ALF is doing what is right. If we dont go to extreme measures, these murders will not stop.