"Writer Isaac Singer grew up in Poland, and escaped the Holocaust by coming to the U.S. in 1935. He won the Nobel Prize for literature, and in one of his short stories, he wrote the famous comment that "for animals, life is an eternal Treblinka," referring to the infamous extermination camp of Nazi-occupied Poland.
The son of rabbi, Singer gave up traditional Judaism. He wrote that "eating meat or fish is a denial of all ideas, even of all religions. How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? Every kind of killing seems to me savage and I find no justification for it."
I would love to read his work - will get it from the library.
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