In the rich countries, depending on the species, 80 to 95 percent of the animals we eat are produced in industrial breeding operations where their short lives are an uninterrupted continuity of pain. All of that becomes possible the moment we begin to regard other living beings as objects for consumption or reserves of meat that we can deal with however we please.
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Matthieu Ricard was French writer and buddhist monk. Matthieu Ricard is a Nepalese French writer, photographer, translator and Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal. Read more on Wikipedia →