150 million screams … (08/18/16)
It’s estimated that 150,000,000 sentient beings are killed every single day through land-based animal agriculture alone. That’s 150,000,000 innocent individuals — all of whom felt emotions, all of whom had thoughts, all of whom had a family, all of whom wanted to avoid suffering and be happy … 150 MILLION beings today alone who had every desire (and every right) to live out their lives in peace, and yet who had their lives violently stolen from them in their adolescence (many in their early childhood) … 150 MILLION lives a day — every single day.
And all of it completely unnecessary — all of it incredibly damaging to human health — and all of it disastrously damaging to the planet as a whole. My Friends, this practice is absolutely INSANE — there really no other way to describe it. It is not only a mass murder, but a mass suicide to boot!
And yet we vegans are supposed to remain quiet about this? Seriously? We vegans are supposed to refrain from making others aware of the real consequences of their food choices? — from educating the ignorant about the massive suffering they are unknowingly inflicting upon the innocent? — from recommending far healthier vegan options that will prolong and enhance the quality of their lives? We are supposed to “be respectful” and remain silent about all of that? Seriously?!?!
Well sorry (not really) — it ain’t going to happen; at least not on my watch. As long as you folks keep sticking your heads in the sand by continuing to pay others to confine & mutilate & abuse & then murder my Friends, then you better believe I am going to keep prying your sand-filled ears & eyes up from the depths and reminding you what’s really going on around here!
The animals have no voice (at least not a voice that you all are willing to hear) so someone has to speak for them — and that someone will continue to be me — those someones will continue to be we vegans.
So if you are one of those people who think that our spreading awareness about animal cruelty (and how to stop supporting the same) is annoying or silly or even amusing (really?!?!), what your insults & your annoyance & especially your jokes are actually showing is that you actually get it — that your conscience knows damn well that torturing & killing a pig or a cow or a chicken is just as awful as torturing & killing a dog or a cat or a horse. It shows that you already know what you have known since you were a toddler — namely, that there is a way to live in wonderful health and with sheer Joy that does not involve purposefully causing any other animal any harm at all.
So cut the jokes, my Friends — for animal cruelty isn’t funny …
And cut the ridicule — for animal abuse is nothing to sneer at …
And cut the excuses — for there are no valid ones.
Animals suffer just like humans, my Friends … So please stop making them suffer … LIVE VEGAN instead.
Thank you.
(~ inspired by Tara Katlyn)
“Someone asked me today why I always speak up about veganism and animal rights, why I can’t just accept that some people don’t want to change. I asked them: If someone was murdering your family in front of you, would you stand there and watch or would you do everything you can to stop them?” ~ Rob Wolter
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