The Captured Souls
Voice of selfless creatures
Humans talk about racism, sexism but they (we) fear to talk about speciesism. Am I right?
We know well that we are not the only species on this Earth instead we share this Earth with millions of other species, still, we dominate and exploit all the other shareholders.
Now let’s talk about our holy cow, As I come from a Hindu family from India, where cattle are worshipped and are believed to be sacred.
But I started doubting this, (do we treat other species humanely?) as I was growing up, the reason may be that I was born in the era where Homo sapiens were dominating this planet.
Now coming back to my holy cow.
I, Sorry everyone might have seen a calf being born in a house to a mother tied to a rope, and who grows up while being tied to the same rope and ultimately gets old and die while being tied at the corner, within the walls of the same house.
This is the lucky case when the calf is female, if it is male he certainly would not make it to the old stage ( you might better guess why?)
The life of most of the cattle starts with a rope around their neck and ends with it at a corner of the house or a shed.
It seems that freedom is a term simply not meant for them.
Their sole aim is just to fulfil our protein and fat requirements with their milk and flesh.
Moreover, we feel proud and grateful that at least we are providing them with food and shelter and have no signs of regrets for the everlasting mental and physical suffering we cause to them.
There was a time when cattle were treated as family members, there were pasture lands. The cattle would be living a contented life. They would be having emotions like happiness which they certainly lack now. They would be certainly willing to give their leftover milk to their masters.
But now the scenario is completely different. Humans desires are increasing exponentially. They are busy fulfilling them at any cost and to satisfy their baseless desires all the other species including cattle are giving the price of their priceless lives.
Now the cow factories have been set up where thousands of cows are kept for their complete usage from milk to flesh for their entire life.
“Mothers were birthing outside my window and I was listening to their labor pains all night, and then watching them loving and cleaning their babies until my husband came with the tractor and cage to take those babies… You realize you’ve been blind to this holocaust going on all around you...Once you break through that barrier of social conditioning to eat meat, you wake up in a world of horror" -Jess Strathdee (former dairy farmer)
When I try to keep myself in their places and try to imagine what those selfless creatures would be thinking for their entire life within the walls about humans as they only encountered us throughout their lives. It makes me wrecked from inside and in front of this all my sufferings of life seems baseless.
I simply believe that drinking one’s mother’s milk might be one’s choice but not of other mothers.
“The screams of the mothers … I still hear the sound. It won’t go away. I keep thinking about it. I still live in a state of denial that I used to be a farmer. Now when I look at calves in the eyes or look cows in the eyes…all the sorrow that I caused to them is forever engraved upon my heart. I have no idea how many mothers and babies I put on the trailer to send to slaughter. How many mothers were left without their babies? And they cried and called for their babies. If someone would touch my daughter or my son… I don’t know what to say, just the thought of it frightens me. When I worked on the farm, somehow, I saw no problem with it.” -Michelle (former dairy farmer)
But we humans have crossed the limits and we still believe that “human being is a social animal". We claim to be the most civilized among all species.
Still, we forget to admit that we humans are just one of many creations of this mother nature.
Humans are simply inhuman believe me or not.
But the time has come when we all need to go under introspection.
We just feel black lives matter but shouldn’t we feel every life matters.
