There are quite a few excellent articles out there about becoming animal activists — about taking the sorely needed step from passive veganism to courageous advocacy, and yet if you are not into reading them in their entirety, here is a three sentence summation that applies to each & every one: If you see a child being beaten, it is immoral to join in. And if you see a child being beaten, it is even immoral to merely refuse to participate. Indeed, it is a simple truth that when you see any innocent being being abused, the moral baseline — the very LEAST you should do — is loudly speak up and tell the abusers to stop (if not directly intervene to physically encourage them to do so).

Deep down, each & every one of us knows this Truth already. And as such, I gently ask the following questions to all of you out there to whom they pertain: Why do you sit back passively and do nothing while millions of innocent children are enslaved, abused & murdered every day? Isn’t it time for Justice to reign once more in our world? Isn’t it time for Compassion to finally come to the fore in your Heart & in your life? Isn’t it time we ALL rose up to take a stand for the downtrodden?

Here’s a hint: YES … IT … IS!!!

There are so many ways for us to actively protest the horrific crimes being committed against the innocent in our communities … We can hold silent vigil outside our local grocery stores … We can chain ourselves to meat counters & fish markets … We can place pro-animal/anti-cruelty stickers on animal-based products … We can physically liberate animals being held prisoner against their will … We can speak up to family, friends & strangers about the immorality of animal abuse & using animals as mere things … We can go vegan and share our experience with others … We can post on Facebook and send emails and write letters to prominent figures asking for their support … We can blockade the entrances to animal “processing plants” (murderhouses) … We can paint pro-compassion graffiti on stop signs and train cars and highway overpasses … We can distribute vegan literature at local stores & malls … The list is almost endless. End the end, it doesn’t really matter how we stand up to make our Moral Voice heard — and yet to be true to your own Soul, it IS crucial that we find at least one way to do so.

No child deserves to be enslaved, my Friends. No child deserves to have its body parts burned off or torn away (even with anesthesia), and no child deserves to be murdered — regardless of its species. So PLEASE — help me put an end to this madness.

Thank you … Peace.

“A recent Gallup poll showed that 32% of the population – higher than the percentage who supported LGBTQ equality in 1996 – currently believe that animals should have the same rights as people. Moreover, this percentage is increasing quickly, while animal exploiting industries are waning in size and scope. Agriculture, for example, is a vanishingly small percentage of the American economy, and calculations show that it would take a mere 1-2% of US GDP to rescue every single animal currently in captivity and place them in a sanctuary for the rest of their lives!

Furthermore, animal issues are becoming dramatically popular in our broader culture. The Dodo founders have pointed out that animals are among the most shared subjects on social media, and an astonishing 79% of people in America say they must be protected from all suffering and harm. As Frank Bruni of The New York Times points out, windows into the world of animals are growing, both big and little. And the more we SEE the animals, the more we realize: THEY ARE US. They are our family members, they are our our children, and they are our friends. And when we see they are us, we see, too, our duty to defend them from cruelty and harm.

In the face of all these incredible reasons for optimism, it’s time for us to discard our cynicism and doubt. It’s time for us to be inspired, not to lonely inaction, but to EMPOWERED ACTIVISM. And it’s time for our movement to take a new and more confident tone: That we are strong … that we are right … that we are inspired … and that we will succeed.” ~ inspired by Wayne Hsiung