Matthieu Ricard to thank you for standing over this important subject :)

60 billion land animals are slaughtered each year on Earth (including 1 billion in France), 1000 billion aquatic animals are caught during the same period of time .... An employee of a slaughterhouse in the US can kill 75,000 to 90,000 birds per night .... Tyson Foods kills 10 million per week ..... In the European Community, an estimated 39.6 million chickens per year which, for lack of technique and time are slaughtered without dizziness, see scalded alive ...

These astronomical figures lead us to ask ourselves the utility of it all. and ask the big question whether we have the right in a general sense to inflict untold suffering to animals. Matthieu Ricard, his kindness to every living being, we built the plea flawless.

He explores the contrast between the tradition of the monotheistic religions of Western philosophy VS Eastern traditions; In addition the majority of the population such has no idea what happens in a slaughterhouse or makes no relationship between a package of meat and live animals. He denounced the system without feeling the food industry, cruel animal shows, circuses, animal testing, looting and trafficking of wildlife, barbarism against cetaceans and the marine environment. It against the fallacious arguments of the philosopher Francis Wolff, an avid bullfighting.

In a world where 50% of all species on the planet have disappeared in the last 40 years, is that going to be enough? Probably not, but the spiritual component of this benevolence for all living creatures actually a book that will touch hopefully the heart of many readers.