“Humanity’s true moral test — its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: the animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.” ~ Milan Kundera (author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”) Please help me turn […]
Let us remember who we truly are as humans, by remembering how it feels to treat other animals with the honor and the respect they deserve. Amen … Let it be so. “I will not kill or hurt any living creature for mere convenience or personal pleasure, nor will I willingly destroy any beautiful thing, […]
*Did you know that turkeys are excluded from all so-called “humane slaughter laws”? This means that at most commercial slaughterhouses (where over 99% of all Thanksgiving turkeys are “processed” – a.k.a. murdered), turkeys are merely dragged headfirst through electrified water carrying enough current to paralyze them, not to desensitize them to pain, but rather to […]
“Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality.” ~ Bernard E. Rollin *Did you know that the domesticated turkey you will (hopefully not) be eating this Thursday was bred to grow so fast that she could barely walk at all the day she was crammed into a transport truck and hauled off to her brutal death […]
*Did you know that turkeys are just as sentient as your dog? *Did you know that turkeys typically like to eat breakfast and dinner together as a family? *Did you know that mother turkeys are fiercely protective of their young, and will risk their lives to save their babies? Indeed, it is the natural tendency […]
Did you know that in the quite recent past, the majority of U.S. citizens favored slavery, and openly resisted those who were fighting for the freedom of people of color? I wonder, if you lived 150 years ago and were white, do you think that you would be in favor of freeing the slaves — […]
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