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\"Avaaz<\/a>
Avaaz would have you believe all farm stock are ‘crammed’ in ‘windowless cages’. They aren’t.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fresh from supporting terrorists in Syria<\/a><\/strong>, and trying to overturn Brexit<\/a><\/strong>, the George-Soros-funded fake activists at Avaaz now want to turn us all vegan.<\/p>\n

And they are not above spreading some lies to achieve their aim.<\/p>\n

’56 BILLION animals are crammed into filthy, windowless cages and slaughtered every year to feed our meat addiction’, screams the latest email from one ‘Danny Auron’. He sent that to the 46 million people (like me) on the Avaaz email list.<\/p>\n

What does Danny want you and me to do? \u00a0Well it’s not ‘send them money’ this time. \u00a0Nor is it signing an Avaaz petition. \u00a0There is no ‘clicktivism’ involved at all. \u00a0He wants us\u00a0to ‘go meat-free just one day a week’.<\/p>\n

Perfect design – for our benefit<\/h2>\n

Leave aside that there are many people in the world for whom a couple of meals of meat a week would provide much-needed protein. \u00a0And with around two-and-a-half times as much protein in chicken as beans, that’s important. \u00a0No, this is directed at the West, where you can easily make up in supplements what you aren’t getting in your trendy vegan diet.<\/p>\n

\"Sheep<\/a>
Sheep spend most of their time grazing, converting poor-quality food (that’ll be grass) into protein for us to eat. No-one is eating Dawn or her lamb though. They are breeding ewes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is a lot of grass in the world and sheep and cattle are designed by our gracious maker to eat it. \u00a0We cannot eat grass. \u00a0However, they turn it into protein which we CAN eat.<\/p>\n

There is a good reason why a sheep spends nearly all its waking hours either grazing or chewing the cud. \u00a0And there is a good reason us (and the farm cats) spend around half an hour a day actually eating. \u00a0The grass they eat has low nutritional value. \u00a0What we eat in a balanced meat-inclusive diet has high nutritional value. \u00a0 Moreover, the Almighty has designed it like that, for our benefit:<\/p>\n

Psalm 104:14\u00a0 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Avaaz have lied about conditions<\/h2>\n

Now, if people want to go veggie or vegan, fair play. \u00a0But Danny, don’t lie to persuade them to do so. \u00a0Where does the ’56 billion’ figure come from? \u00a0Avaaz have lifted it straight off the Animal Equality website<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Not that Avaaz own up to that.<\/p>\n

The Animal Equality crew themselves are not averse to a bit of smoke and mirrors. \u00a0But at least they only say: ‘Over 56 billion farmed animals are killed every year by humans’. \u00a0Which makes sense. \u00a0Just under one billion are slaughtered in the UK alone, according to the Humane Slaughter Association<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Most of those are chickens.<\/p>\n

But for Avaaz, those animals, every single one of them, are ‘crammed into filthy, windowless cages’. \u00a0Well, ours aren’t. \u00a0Our cattle are in the yard right now, eating the silage we harvested for them in the summer. \u00a0Our sheep are out in the field, happily grazing. \u00a0On our farm<\/a><\/strong>, there is not a single windowless cage in sight. \u00a0Even in the poultry sector, the momentum is all against battery cages and towards barn-rearing, free-range and organic.<\/p>\n

Avaaz: ‘Fueling mass animal torture’<\/h2>\n
\"Danny<\/a>
Danny Auron, Campaign Director, Avaaz.org and product of Harvard Law School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But Avaaz will never use one egg in a pudding when a couple of dozen will easily do. \u00a0Accordingly, for Danny Auron, every ranch and every smallholding is a ‘disgusting factory farm’. \u00a0\u00a0Our meat consumption is ‘fueling mass animal torture’, he yells. \u00a0And of course, wouldn’t you know it, ‘it’s killing our planet!’<\/p>\n

Apparently, ‘Livestock contributes more to global warming than all cars, planes, and buses worldwide’. \u00a0‘It’s gotten out of hand!’ he shrieks.<\/p>\n

Well, here’s a funny thing. \u00a0For the World Wildlife Fund<\/a><\/strong>: \u00a0‘Global warming is caused by human activities like burning fossil fuels, deforestation and farming.’ \u00a0 LiveScience.com say<\/a><\/strong>: \u00a0‘Human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, are increasing greenhouse gas levels, leading to an enhanced greenhouse effect. The result is global warming and unprecedented rates of climate change.’ \u00a0So, yes, farming contributes, if you accept the global warming hypothesis, but it’s only one part of human activity.<\/p>\n

Bible: Dominion over the cattle<\/h2>\n

Theologically where is this coming from? \u00a0On their ‘About’ page, Animal Equality say: ‘Our vision is a world in which all animals are respected and protected.’ \u00a0 Therefore, we should not see them as the Bible portrays them, as ‘inferior beings whose reason for existence is to provide us with meat, milk and eggs’ \u00a0The Bible reports:<\/p>\n

Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That, apparently, is ‘speciesism. \u00a0‘We need to stop thinking of them as just resources, and to start viewing them for who they are: individual sentient beings whose lives deserve to be respected and valued,’ \u00a0say the activists.<\/p>\n

In that case, there will be none of them. \u00a0Farmers like us raise meat animals for slaughter. \u00a0No demand, no animals on the land, however sentient they are. \u00a0And make no mistake, animals are smart. \u00a0They evaluate situations and make decisions. \u00a0But they have no purpose in farming apart from their value to mankind. \u00a0Even in the wild, they are prey animals who will eventually, mostly, be killed.<\/p>\n

Emotional blackmail, dishonesty and hyperbole<\/h2>\n

People can go vegetarian or vegan if they want. \u00a0But why does it need emotional blackmail, dishonesty and hyperbole to make the anti-meat case? \u00a0In addition, if speciesism is a terrible thing, what have the animal rights folk to say about malaria or flesh-eating parasites? \u00a0Surely the mosquito and the worm have a right to life? \u00a0Intellectually and theologically their case is unsustainable, and it may well be it is ecologically bereft as well.<\/p>\n

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