THE ETHICAL EVEREST: ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PROTEST AGAINST ORTHODOX JEWISH RITUAL

Source: Vos Iz Neias.

By Gundhramns Hammer
November 28, 2014
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No man is ever above what he thinks he is above.

All over the world, more and more people are becoming aware and waking up that humans are not the only living beings that feel pain. 

Nonhuman animals with a complex nervous system (e.g., chickens) do feel pain too. It is a scientific fact.

As scientists explore more and more the intricacy and complexity of living beings, they are discovering that a great number of organisms can feel pain. 

Perhaps one day they will find that this ability is intrinsic with being alive. 

At the same time, more and more people are also questioning their own programmed eating habits, those that were imprinted during their childhoods. Eating has a lot to do with memories.

There is also a large number of environmentally concerned people who are watching carefully the impact of what they eat at the table, what they shop at the markets and what kind of transportation they use in their daily life, amongst other things.

Because if this, the number of people who switch from eating meat to a plant-based diet is growing yearly. And at the same time, they soon notice that their health improves a great deal with this change.

But this deep questioning and acting does not stop here. It goes beyond and overflows even into their religious lives.

For example, there are Jewish and non-Jewish people who activily protest against the orthodox Jewish custom of killing chickens for atonement of their sins, a ritual known as "kaparot" and practiced on the eve of Yom Kikkur (Videos 1).

Video 1. Protest held against orthodox Jewisl ritual involving live chickens.

Those Jewish folks who see this practice as barbaric, which really is, use money instead of live chickens (Video 2).

Video 2. Use money instead of chickens.

We hope this custom will be a thing of the past soon. 

We also hope that Animal Rights activists in Israel or anywhere never quit protesting against this ritual.

Bravo to these activists in Israel!

A better world should not be only for humans. It should also apply to those living and fully sentient beings that have no human voices.

No man is ever above what he thinks he is above. 

Being so whimsical, weak-hearted and money-oriented as a general rule, he can only search for the path, place himself right on this track, follow this line and strive wholeheartedly to improve daily his actions along this path and only for the humblest and kindest ones is to reach the ethical summit.

Even if it takes a lifetime´s work. 

It is worth it. One´s life takes on a new dimension.

This is the climbing we all must do: The ethical Everest.