Reverend Father Robert Culat (vegetarian) – Voice of Awakening for the Animals, Part 2 of 4

In the previous episodes Father Robert Culat spoke about why he wrote ‘The Age of Metal’. Today, Father Robert Culat spoke about his vegetarian journey.

“For me it wasn’t a decision. There are some people who might say the day I became a vegetarian was such a day. No, for me it wasn’t done like that, it was a gradual process, I became interested in the world food system and I said to myself, it’s a question we all ask ourselves sooner or later I think, how come that there’s still famine in the world, that there are still children dying of hunger while wealth overflows from everywhere?”

“I became interested in this question of food, why there is famine, why all that. And logically, after a while if you study this theme, you’re bound to come across a sub-theme called the meat industry, it’s inevitable, overfishing. And then you start to understand things, and you say to yourself there’s deforestation, that we hear so much about in Amazonia or Indonesia or elsewhere. That’s why we massacre these forests which are an extraordinary heritage of humanity and which are also vital for our survival.”

“Obviously, I thought about the animals themselves, not just the ecological damage of this meat industry, so I will come back to the animals, then also to the fact that the exact figures, I don’t have them anymore but they are on the internet, everybody can find it, but I think it’s about if I remember correctly, it’s about 70% of the cultivated land in the world, 70% of the world’s food is not used to feed people directly, but is used to feed farm animals.”

“It’s perfect, so we have to put an end to this logic, and the continuation ‘while waiting,’ and that’s very interesting ‘the world of exacerbated consumption,’ the overconsumption of many things, but also of animal products of course, of meat, so ‘the world of exacerbated consumption is at the same time the world of mistreatment of life in all its forms,’ ‘mistreatment of life in all its forms,’ is again a perfect definition of what the meat industry is today, the slaughterhouses, industrial livestock and all that, ‘the mistreatment of life.’”