“If you buy animal products, you’re paying someone who makes a living off of commodifying animals — artificially breeding them, raising them quickly to ‘market weight’ and then violently killing them in their youth, at just a fraction of their natural lifespan.

Even ‘high welfare’ and ‘humane’ labels permit the slashing of the throats of stunned yet conscious animals, the driving of an electrocution rod up the animal’s rectum in order to cause a grand mal seizure, &/or the murder of animals by poison gas or direct suffocation.  And if any of these practices were inflicted on human beings, we would quite correctly consider them to be not only cruel and abusive, but torturous and even genocidal (if performed on the obscenely massive scale that the animal agriculture industry perpetrates them today) … And if any of these practices were inflicted on our companion dogs or cats, the perpetrators could be criminally prosecuted on felony cruelty charges.

And the conclusion that can be reached from these simple facts is a simple one — If it is wrong to abuse humans and companion animals in these ways, then it is equally wrong to inflict these same abuses on farmed animals.” ~ via Ashley Capps

 

Filed under: Sanctifying Sentience by Scaughdt