A Holy Week prayer for the animals

Mother sheep are kind and attentive.  But they only have a short time with their new babies every year. The lambs will then be sorted out from the herd, taken from their mothers who bleat and cry. The lambs, who are still so leggy and fuzzy, are put on transport trucks and sent to be brutally killed, taken apart and sold in pieces. Cultural traditions that don’t serve the causes of justice and empathy shouldn’t be continued. There is no familiarity, no nostalgia, no religious habit that can justify taking a baby away from its mother and killing it.