The tyranny of humans over nonhumans really is the “moral blindspot” of our time. How can such brutality exist with so little opposition? If people were to learn that I confined my dog to a cage every day, that I mutilated her body, slaughtered her and ate her flesh, people would be horrified. They’d call me sadistic. And yet every year, so much worse is done to the trillions of animals tortured in factory farms, laboratories, and fishing operations.
Despite this horrifying scale of harm, the issue receives very little attention. Worse, some people actually try to justify this cruelty. There is no justification for what we do to these animals.
Every year, trillions of fish sucked from the oceans, left to slowly suffocate. Billions of chickens, pigs, & cows, crammed into claustrophobic cages, tortured, mutilated, and slaughtered. Millions of rabbits & mice, abused, dissected, and disfigured. What kind of society allows this? Where is the outrage?
Unfortunately for these individuals, animal exploitation remains the state of affairs. I hope by the end of my lifetime this is no longer the case. I hope I live to see the day when the factory farms, the animal laboratories, the fishing, fur, & leather industries, they all crumble.
I think that day is coming. The animal movement will grow & work its way into the mainstream. We will put an end to this systematic abuse, to this needless brutality.
Please join us. This movement needs everyone. Together we can create a world where cruelty & violence are no longer the norm.
Taj 