Sometimes animal advocates are described as “sentimental”, “emotional”, or simply “animal lovers”. And certainly many advocates do have a strong fondness for animals, but it must be stressed that animal liberation is not a matter of sympathy, it is a matter of justice.
You don’t have to be an “animal lover” to realize the great unfairness of their situation. Imagine being brought into this world, having done nothing, only to be torn from your mother, kept in isolation & confinement, deprived of exercise, of the outdoors, of adequate food & water. Imagine being tortured your entire life, only to be shipped to a slaughterhouse to become someone else’s dinner. Imagine the only life you ever know being the pain & misery of the factory farm. Please imagine, just for a second, what it’s like to be them.
That humanity has abused its intellect & strength to oppress the more vulnerable creatures of this earth is an injustice beyond words. This has to end. We can be so much better.
Taj 