People who profit from animal exploitation like to call animal-rights advocates "extreme."But what's extreme about not wanting to see animals suffer?
What's extreme about eating a plant-based diet?
Eating plants is innocuous, but hanging a chicken upside-down, slitting her throat and throwing her into scalding-hot water are extreme.
Banging a piglet against a concrete floor and tossing him into a garbage can while he's seizing are extreme.
Pumping a cow full of hormones so she produces 10 times the milk she'd naturally produce is extreme.
Tearing a calf from his mother's side and locking him in a dark crate for 20 weeks before slaughtering him are extreme.
Supporting these acts by purchasing animal flesh and animal secretions (ie. milk) is extreme.
Eating plants and volunteering on behalf of animals who cannot speak for themselves are compassionate, rational acts.
(Photo courtesy of Mercy For Animals.)
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It seems so obvious that it's laughable.
"Treat others as you wish to be treated."
I do not want to be skinned or disemboweled while still alive.
I want to live to old age free to avoid pain.
We've worked so hard to remove ourselves from the "animal kingdom" that we forget that on the most basic levels, we share so much with our animal brethren - including the capacity to feel pain & pleasure.
Amen sister
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