"Beef Cattle"

Cattle raised for meat, and also possibly leather, are called 'beef cattle'.

I take huge and deep offense to this term and this concept. It's a thing of nightmares.

Who are we to force animals to give birth according to our wishes, to control them for our 'needs' (wants, means of livelihood, wealth) and slaughter them (even calves!) to supply meat for human consumption?

There is something deeply wrong about what we're doing. We have stopped even thinking about these things any more, it has become taken for granted so much.

People will sneer and laugh at my outrage because they think this is how things are done, have always been done, and will continue to be done. They will say 'You can't take these stupid moral attitudes for this sort of thing' - they expect everyone to blinker their senses and kill off any such questions and rebellion that come up within them and just go with the trend, go with the flow.

We're living off other creatures. We're not just ordinary parasites, we're cunning, cruel, vicious parasites.

This has got to stop. At least let us stop cheating ourselves into thinking this concept of beef cattle, mutton sheep, and the like are OK. It's not. Remember, it's not acceptable, it's not right, it's not normal.

Yes, we're omnivores, but we used to live differently back then when supply chains had not been invented. It would do us good to remember that.