My heart is heavy with sadness as I read the book, "The Dominion"

[peacebuzzard]

fivegan posted about this quite sometime ago and I put it on my to do list which I am just getting around to right now.

The disappearance of the elephant and whale in stark reality has me heavy with sadness.
Scully is horrifyingly successful in his descriptions of the nightmare world of decimation, slaughter, eradication and corporate profit that has occurred on our watch and in just a few decades while the maddening thunderous march of humanity is shunning every living and breathing creature all the while most human beings stand in silence, emotionless, apathetic and accepting of this holocaust.

I am just half way through this book and I am so blown away by the facts.




Thought I would just say hi to everyone here as no one in my world would understand the depths to which this is hitting me.....

[Dastard Stepchild]

1. This book had me in tears roughly every few pages...

but I forced myself to get through it regardless.

[peacebuzzard]

2. Same here. I am on a trip going to many cities and reading this mainly on the

plane. I have to stop often with tears welling up and breathe deep and put the book down for a short while. The facts are so intense, and this is a need to know subject. This is a slap to the face reality no one wants to know about.

[peacebuzzard]

3. This book is slapping me awake to the terror of the factory farms...

Until this book I have never given too much thought to these forgotten animals in our country. And to think that this factory farming industry is attempting to spread to other countries under the guise of ConAgra and others....I have been so far behind on this learning curve of our food supply. I knew about the rendering companies, and I knew about factory farming, I just never gave it too much thought. And now it has been haunting my psyche for days.

In Dominion I am now reading about the pigs and cows and other farmed animals in the dark and cramped pens. Unable to move, frozen and terrified of the "gods" (visitors, or lone workers) as they come and go and never alleviate them from their pain and despair. thousands of animals with no name and no home beyond these conditions. Their short life span will culminate in that one time they are freed from their cramped pens to make the short journey to the stunning gun, or electrocution before they are further brutalized before the kill.
(This just can't be happening)

This book has me heaving and my eyes are moist . I have put the book down. This book has carved wide open the dark side of this life. this single. hidden. horror. has been revealed to my reasoning abilities. This deep dirty ugly secret exposed in its maddening nightmare.

[CrispyQ]

4. Crap, even the cover has me in tears. --nt

[CrispyQ]

8. I don't know if Ican get past the fucking cover.l

I don't know if I can.......
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Argjj////////

[flvegan]

5. Remember...

"dominion" is an ego-based theory. Justice is not.

An excellent book and an enlightening, factual experience. Keep it well at hand when you read of people doing things for animals that aren't so well received...that answer to the mentioned, "Call to Mercy"

Don't be heavy with sadness, though. Be charged, rejuvinated...shit, be damn ANGRY about what you're reading. Absorb what you're reading, what you're learning. Leverage it. However you can, leverage it. Because you know what, the animal that died today, suffered today, can't feel your sadness. That animal can't use your sadness. In the end, when all is said and done, that animal has the very same day.

Turn that sadness into something. Let sadness be a change...an inspiration. Or, let that sadness evolve into positive action.

Or, let that sadness evolve into rage.

Use it.

[peacebuzzard]

6. This book has been around sometime....and since then millions,

probably billions of innocent sentient animals have been slaughtered....

I finished reading it just an hour ago and now at least I am more aware than before of all the industries created from the animals, alive and dead

For now, I am simply, haunted ..... the book blew open my realization to the annihilation of species and grim realities of the slaughterhouses. Yeah, I knew it was a living hell for the animals both the ones near extinction and the food animals but I saw the inside world of this hell through this book and I am sorry I haven't come to this fact acceptance before....

I know I will not be as shocked in a few days. I'll return the book to the library when I return home on Christmas Eve and see my faithful little rescue family (6 dogs, a cat, some chickens.....lucky, lucky critters). My horror will turn to something else over time and knowing me, I am sure I will try in some little way to help, and do something.... wherever and however I can and to talk to whomever I can hold a decent conversation with about this.

The book ends with a notation of a glimmer of hope that maybe this mad sucking sound to extinction for some of the species can be plugged .... if more people become aware of the tourism industry that can be developed. (But, like walking in a cold rain, you would like to be someplace warm but the frigid reality just makes you shiver)

P.S. Fivegan: this book which you recommended maybe a year ago or so here in this forum is a deserved must read. I have certainly been enlightened and influenced by this author.

[Critters2]

7. If it helps, there are Christians working against this idea of "dominion"

on behalf of the animals. A friend of mine, Steve Kaufman is founder and president of the Christian Vegetarian Association (www.christianveg.org). He has an amazing amount of energy, is skilled at writing and arguing on behalf of the animals, and never tires at his work to get Christians to understand these issues. He's truly an inspiration to me--especially when I feel overwhelmed by it all!

It's easy to get paralyzed by the evil and suffering. I'm so grateful for those who can fight the good fight (flvegan and Omaha Steve impress me in the same way) consistently.

Keep reading, but keeping working, too!

[peacebuzzard]

9. thanks. just bookmarked this site for later