Every animal should have such a great life every day … True, we cannot guarantee that pain &suffering won’t ever enter the lives of the innocent, and yet we most certainly CAN see to it that we are not the ones causing the same … Please stop paying people to enslave and torture and murder animals … Please go vegan … Thank you.

“Language is important. The very definition of slavery is the treatment of one group as property — to be bought, sold, and forced into work by another group. If non-human animals are not slaves, then are they free? … Cows do not clock in and clock out. They don’t go home to their families. They don’t have conversations in the lunchroom. And the only retirement package available to them at the end of their painful lives is a terrifying, bloody, violent death when their usefulness to us has run out … Of course, coming to terms with the sobering reality of slavery is probably the most difficult mental hurdle to overcome when having these discussions. Because when we are forced to acknowledge that slavery is wrong and that non-human animals are indeed slaves, then we suddenly acquire the moral obligation not only to talk about abolition, but to walk that talk. The repercussions for our own social structures could prove to be uncomfortable, and yet I imagine such courage wasn’t easy for pre-Civil War Americans either.” ~ inspired by Christopher-Sebastian McJetters

 

Filed under: Sanctifying Sentience by Scaughdt