Apology to a slaughtered cow

Wow, this video is really moving and brought me to tears. John apologises to the spirit of a cow who was murdered brutally for food.  It is very personal and helped me connect to that particular cow, and all the particular cows and animals who are slaughtered every day for food.

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The not-so-heroic truth about Edison

How were we not told that Edison electrocute an elephant and numerous animals to prove the point that AC current is dangerous!   Not only this he paid for the creation of the first electric chair to kill human beings.

See wikipedia's extract:

" Edison carried out a campaign to discourage the use^[18] of alternating current, including spreading disinformation on fatal AC accidents, publicly killing animals, and lobbying against the use of AC in state legislatures. Edison directed his technicians, primarily Arthur Kennelly and Harold P. Brown,^[19] to preside over several AC-driven killings of animals, primarily stray cats and dogs but also unwanted cattle and horses. ^[20] Acting on these directives, they were to demonstrate to the press that alternating current was more dangerous than Edison's system of direct current.^[21] He also tried to popularize the term for being electrocuted as being "Westinghoused". Years after DC had lost the "war of the currents," in 1903, his film crew made a movie of the electrocution with high voltage AC, supervised by Edison employees, of Topsy, a Coney Island circus elephant which had recently killed three men.^[22]

Edison opposed capital punishment, but his desire to disparage the system of alternating current led to the invention of the electric chair. Harold P. Brown, who was being secretly paid by Edison, built the first electric chair for the state of New York to promote the idea that alternating current was deadlier than DC."

Here's a video of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmslGfaNls

The comments are almost as vile as the act itself. 

Here is some more horrific information about the history of the electric chair: http://www.capitalcentury.com/1907.html

Honestly, what is the explanation of such wanton and careless cruelty? Is it male ego? Really, what is it?