Myth #61: “But I love animals.”
I’m sorry, but there really is no possible way for you to truly “love animals” while you are financially supporting the industry that is systematically imprisoning them, abusing them, mutilating them, raping them and ultimately murdering them. Now you might indeed truly love your dog or your cat (or dogs or cats in general — or horses, or hamsters, or parakeets, or whatever other species of animal your own personal pet happens to be), and yet if you are eating the flesh or consuming the secretions of cows or goats or pigs or chickens, then you are only a “pet lover”, and quite clearly NOT an animal lover.
Indeed, it is standard practice in the meat & dairy industry – even on so-called “cruelty free” & “humane” farms – that animals are repeatedly forcibly impregnated, that their babies are stolen from them immediately after birth, that male calves & male chicks are brutally murdered shortly after birth (as they can neither produce milk nor lay eggs), that all animals are slaughtered after only a few short years of life – by having a bolt shot into their brains and then having their throats slit (often while still conscious), by driving an electrocution rod into their rectums to stimulate terminal grand mal seizures, by being painfully suffocated by foam or carbon dioxide gas, or simply by being repeatedly struck in the head by boot or hammer. If any one of these practices alone would be inflicted on our fellow human beings, we would rightly consider them horrible crimes of violence, if not torturous genocide. And if any one of these practices alone would be inflicted upon our beloved companion animals, we would reasonably call for the perpetrators to be prosecuted on charges of felony animal cruelty.
My dear Friends, this all brings us to a most salient Truth: that what is wrong when done to humans or cats or dogs is just as wrong when done to cows or pigs or chickens or fish. You know this is true in your heart of hearts, just as you know in your heart of hearts that you are by nature indeed a true animal lover.
Please start acting accordingly today.
Thank you.
Current status of this Myth: Revoked
Justification it provides for eating animals: NONE
“Animal abusers aren’t only the dog fighters, the puppy mill operators and the backyard breeders of the world. When you consume animal products you too are an animal abuser. If you pay the hitman, then you are also the murderer.” ~ inspired by Marlaina Mortati
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