Mahatma Gandhi

"The moral progress of a nation and its greatness should be judged by the way it treats its animals."
- Mahtma Gandhi

Animal rights are a big issue in this country. Luckily, the government has made it illegal to abuse domesticated animals. However, that does not account for the animals that we use for food. They are treated terribly their entire lives only to die and become a meal. The cows that we slaughter never feel the grass under their feet or breathe fresh air before they are hung by the feet in a slaughterhouse and gutted. Pigs and chickens are forced into over crowded pens which are so small they cannot even turn around or lie. We need to make the lives of these animals more tolerable before we end them for our own pleasure, and make their slaughter more humane. If we follow what Gandhi says in this quote, how does that make America look? Can we say that we are a great country when our animals are abused and treated so poorly? Much respect needs to be shown to the ideas of a man who can win a war with out violence.