Comments on: The animal must feel loved

By: Willemijn

Willemijn — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:43:34 +0000

Hürriyet Daily News
Friday, December 18, 2009 – Yurdagül Şimşek
‘Boundaries of animal rights to be extended’:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=boundaries-of-animal-rights-are-extended-2009-12-17

By: Anatolian

Anatolian — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:20:59 +0000

Thank you for bringing this article to our attention,

I believe that we can have a perfectly healty life without killing of animals for food. it is not necessary to eat meat, to eat meat do more harms to human body than good such as risk of hypertension, obesity, coronary artery disease and diabetes etc.

20 million people die annually due to hunger and its effects. Although this is a result of many complex interrelated geographic, social and economic factors, the remedy to this tragedy is ideally quite simple.

Compare the following facts about food production:
It takes 23 gallons of water to produce a pound of tomatoes.
It takes 5,214 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef.

One acre of land can produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes.
One acre of land can produce 165 pounds of beef.

It takes 1 pound of grain to make 1 pound of bread.
It takes 20 pounds of grain to make 1 pound of beef

for more details click below links.http://www.britishmeat.com/49.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/07/food.foodanddrink

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3956

By: Fréderike Geerdink

Fréderike Geerdink — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:31:59 +0000

@brigitte: This was in Çengelköy on the Anatolian side of town (part of Üsküdar). Every year at bayram the Istanbul municipality publishes a list on their website with all the ‘Satış ve Kesim Yerleri’ in town (dozens!), see next year at http://www.ibb.gov.tr

By: Claudia

Claudia — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:28:55 +0000

Thank you for sharing this story, Fréderike. I had a similar experience in India which turned me off meat for life. It’s a pity that in the western world those things happen mostly behind doors (http://www.earthlings.com/).
I don’t think this is the attitude in which Abraham would have sacrificed his son, and surely not a way to show our love for animals.
Mahatma Gandhi said: ?The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated?.

By: brigitte

brigitte — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:07:24 +0000

Thanks for your article. As I live in Istanbul aselle, can you telle me where was this place ? Next year, I will try to see that …
Thanks !