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Episode 8 - The Sin of Slaughter · Vegetarianism and Occultism

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  Section eight, the sin on slaughter. Hitherto we have been speaking of what
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  we have called the physical and selfish considerations which should make a man give up
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  the eating of this dead flesh, and turn him, even though only for
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  his own sake, to a purer diet. Let us now think for a
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  few moments of the moral and unselfish considerations connected with his duty towards others.
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  The first of these, and this does seem to me a most terrible thing,
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  is the awful sin of unnecessarily murdering these animals. Those who live in
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  Chicago know well how this ghastly, ceaseless slaughter goes on in their midst,
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  how they feed the greater part of the world by wholesale butchery, and how
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  the money made in this abominable business is stained with blood, every coin of
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  it. I have shown clearly, upon irreproachable testimony, that all this is
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  unnecessary ary, and if it is unnecessary, it is a crime. The
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  destruction of life is always a crime. There may be certain cases in which
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  it is the lesser of two evils, but here it is needless and without
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  a shadow of justification, For it happens only because of the selfish unscrupulous greed
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  of those who coin money out of the agonies of the animal kingdom, in
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  order to pander to the perverted taste of those who are sufficiently depraved to desire
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  such lowsome ailment. Remember, it is not only those who do the obscene
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  work, but those who, by feeding up on this dead flesh, encourage
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  them and make their crime remunerative, who are guilty before God of this awful
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  thing. Every person who partakes of this unclean food has his share in the
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  indescribable guilt and suffering by which it has been obtained. It is universally recognized
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  in law that k asset per alium facet per se. Whatsoever a man does
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  through another, he does himself. A man will often say, but it
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  would make no difference to all this horror if I alone cease to eat meat
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  that is untrue and disingenuous. First, it would make a difference, for
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  although you may consume only a pound or two each day, that would in
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  time amount to the weight of an animal. Secondly, it is not a
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  question of amount, but of complicity and a crime. And if you partake
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  of the results of a crime, you are helping to make it remunerative,
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  and so you share in the guilt. No honest man can fail to see
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  that this is so. But when men's lower luss are concerned, they are
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  usually dishonest in their view and decline to face the plain facts. There surely
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  can be no difference of opinion as to the proposition that all this horrible,
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  unnecessary water is indeed a terrible crime. Another point to be remembered is that
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  there is dreadful cruelty connected with the transport of these miserable animals, both by
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  land and sea, and there is often dreadful cruelty in the slaughtering itself.
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  Those who seek to justify these lowesome crimes will tell you that an endeavor is
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  made to murder the animals as rapidly and painlessly as possible. But you have
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  only to read the reports to see that in many cases these intentions are not
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  carried out, an appalling suffering ensues. End of Section eight