Day 43f: Oh, that we could all live fully Free … (05/27/2019)
What is so hard about comprehending the simple fact that ALL sentient beings fear pain and yearn for happiness; and that they ALL — each & every one; even those as meek and seemingly silent as the fish — clamor against confinement and dream each day of freedom? 🙁
Please have the humility to remember this simple Truth today — and please have the decency to act accordingly.
Thank you … S
“If we would simply have the patience to truly listen, the animals in our lives would be heard constantly voicing their preferences and regularly yearning for freedom. In truth they speak to us every single day and veritably scream the same — when they cry out in pain while shying away from our prods and knives and stun guns; when they pace or swim back & forth (and back & forth, and back & forth) in enclosures much too small; when they struggle mightily in every kill chute and when they writhe so desperately on the deck of every fishing boat — moaning for lives that will soon be taken from them; gasping for ‘air’ that is no longer theirs to breathe … Indeed, animals express themselves quite clearly all the time, and all of us innately know it. Why else are factory farms and slaughterhouses hidden from view and designed to constrain any choices their victims might have to live instead? Why else do we instinctively shy away from watching the videos that so graphically witness their most brutal and quite undeserved slaughter?
In truth, we humans have to deliberately choose not to hear our cousins’ calls for freedom — the lobster banging on the walls of a pot of boiling water, the hen past her egg-laying prime struggling against the human hands enclosed around her legs and neck, the pig screaming for air in the slaughterhouse gas chamber, the fish writhing and gasping while being denied the very same oxygen …
In short, animals are anything but voiceless, my Friends, and it is high time for us to begin to listen to them and heed their calls for justice and freedom.” ~ inspired by Sunaura Taylor
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