Mass slaughter for our festive pleasure
Spare a thought for the pig which has such a short life (about six months) on a factory farm. It lives (if that’s the right word) and dies abruptly so that we can have our fill.
Think of the hundreds of millions of factory-farmed turkeys worldwide. All have short, stressful lives that will have been sacrificed in the months leading up to Christmas in order that we may enjoy the season to the fullest.
Was not the message and example of Christ a compassionate one?
How many nuns, priests, bishops and deans will sit down to a meal this Christmas that has its origins in such un-Christlike suffering, a meal that utterly compromises their lifelong dedication to compassion? The vast majority is the simple answer to that one.
Let’s not wait to take our lead on this issue from the clergy, for we’ll be waiting a long time.
Let’s simply say: ‘No killing for me this Christmas.’ Now that would be a novel way of celebrating Christ’s birthday.
Gerry Boland,
Keadue,
Co Roscommon.
