Day 078n: Liberty for all Livestock … (July 01, 2019)

It was at around this time that I saw something that was simultaneously intriguing and heartwarming; a place in the barbed wire fence running alongside the path where a few local sheep had obviously escaped their human-laden captivity …

You have just dined, and however discreetly the animals are kept in their mountainside paddocks or how scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity … And so it is that we need, in a most profound way, to work thrice as hard to help others understand that non-human animals are fellow creatures, and that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.” ~ via Ralph Waldo Emerson & Cesar Chavez