Nine Steps To Eden - The Humane Route To Paradise (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

“Nine Steps to Eden” demands an end to the livestock industry. No more meat. No more dairy.This is not only easy to imagine, it is easy to achieve. We just need to make different choices about the foods that we eat. This is a book that asks us, through nine simple thoughts, to reject “the meat delusion” - the lie that says that it is okay for us to kill trillions of animals every year with extreme violence, and in our desire for animal flesh plunder the world’s seas and oceans, rainforests and savannahs, and ruin our health and bodies as we eat the bodies of those we have killed.This book is about our attitude towards those animals on our farms and slaughterhouses. As such, it is about violence and cruelty and brutality and killing. It is about why none of that needs to happen anymore.“Nine Steps To Eden” asks us to think again. To think again about how we regard those other lives with whom we share this world. To recognise the lie that says that we can remain unconcerned about the pain and suffering, despair and misery endured by animals at our hand, the lie that says that we can decimate and destroy the environment as we please, mutilate and torture animals at will, and kill them and eat them as we choose.This book describes not the what that we do to animals (I think that we all know well enough what we do to them) but the why that we do those things to those animals. We may believe that as well as understanding what we do to them we also know well enough why we do those things. But there is a profound, indeed tragic failure to understand who those non-human animals really are and also who we are and also the role that we each must play in supporting the environment around us. We base our beliefs about non-humans and about ourselves on a series of lies, a package of deliberate untruths that together we may describe as “the meat delusion”, a falsification of reality, a corruption of the evidence that surrounds us on all sides. This is a fantasy in which we wrap our lives, a cloak and hood of deceit that we pull over our eyes and blanket our minds so that we do not see and we do not know what it really means to “render” a feeling, knowing being with the promise of so much life and joy into a slab of a corpse, sliced and diced for our delectation.”Nine Steps To Eden” calls for the greatest revolution in our history since we began to use tools and fire, a revolution which will forever change our world ... creating an Eden-like paradise on Earth.