Suffering

"Why do animals have to suffer? Why are horses slaves? Why is the end of the rabbit a tragedy? Why must the bird in the hands of a child suffer strangulation? And the animals that fall into the hands of a Chinese chef, whose breasts are sliced open alive to have a heart squeezed? The human soul rebels at the sight and the hearing of these things. But even on this earth, human suffering often finds a comforting explanation, so we must also think of animal suffering as an explanation: The mystery of God. And, above all, let us not forget that to set God before man's own condemnatory thoughts, as before some tribunal of law, - oh, this is folly!"