Upton Sinclair asks if there is a god of hogs. Yes, there is. God is love and god is within you, Leo Tolstoy would say. “Each of these hogs was a separate creature….And each of them had an individuality of his own, a will of his own, a hope and a heart’s desire; each was full of self-confidence, of self-importance, and a sense of dignity. And trusting and strong in faith he had gone about his business, the while a black shadow hung over him and a horrid Fate waited in his pathway. Now suddenly it had swooped upon him, and had seized him by the leg. Relentless, remorseless, it was; all his protests, his screams, were nothing to it—it did its cruel will with him, as if his wishes, his feelings, had simply no existence at all; it cut his throat and watched him gasp out his life. And now was one to believe that there was nowhere a god of hogs, to whom this hog personality was precious, to whom these hog squeals and agonies had a meaning? Who would take this hog into his arms and comfort him, reward him for his work well done, and show him the meaning of his sacrifice?” ― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle The life of a moment, and the life of a thousand years: your life and the life of all the visible and invisible beings in the world, are equal…Afterwards he went about as a wanderer through the towns and villages, preaching to the people that all life is one, and that when men wish to harm others, they really do evil to themselves. ― Leo Tolstoys short story Esarhaddon, King of Assyria Thank you Margaret Park Bridges for sharing Uptons ever poignant quote. Photos from Golden Horseshoe Farmed Animal Saves weekly vigil taken this week. TorontoPigSave.org
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:20:33 +0000
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