If the pictures in this series don’t ALL move you emotionally, then you suffer from a severe case of callousness … And if you somehow see any difference at all between the horrendous crimes represented by the first image below (Jewish prisoners in the death camp at Buchenwald) and the just as horrendous crimes represented in the two images that follow it (caged dogs heading to a meat market in China, and imprisoned pigs waiting for their trip to the slaughterhouse in the U.S.), then you suffer from a more than mild case of bigotry.

And yet how fortunate we are that you are NOT a heartless person by nature … How fortunate we are that you are NOT a bigot from birth; that as a young child you used to care for ALL your fellow humans and ALL your animal cousins; that you have simply been conditioned by your culture to numb your emotional response to tragedies, and accept the lies you were taught about the “lesser worth” of other species.

Best of all: how fortunate we are that there is a readily available cure for all these disturbingly common moral diseases, and that cure is simply choosing to Care …

That cure is to choose to cease supporting the institution that inflicts such perverse cruelty & intense suffering on these innocent creatures …

That cure is to go vegan, and then to in-Courage others to do the same.

“Separation is our most insidious delusion. We must learn to relate to each other again. The Truth is quite simple: animals are emotionally evolved beings. Just like us, they think … and they feel. They love … and they fear … and they mourn … and they suffer. We are all connected. We are all One … It is high time we started acting like it.” ~ unknown

 

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