Myth # 61 : " But I love animals ."
Myth # 61 : " But I love animals ."
I ' m sorry my Friends , but there really is no possible way for you to truly “ love animals ” while financially supporting an industry that is systematically imprisoning them , abusing them , mutilating them , raping them and ultimately murdering them . Now you might indeed truly love your own dog or cat ( or dogs or cats in general – or horses , or hamsters , or parakeets , or whatever other species your own personal “ pet ” happens to be ), and yet if you are eating the flesh or consuming the secretions of cows or goats or pigs or chickens , then you are only a “ personal pet lover ”, NOT an actual Animal Lover .
Indeed , it is standard practice in the meat & dairy industry – even on so-called “ cruelty free ” & “ humane ” farms – for animals to be forcibly impregnated , to have their babies stolen from them immediately after birth , to have male calves & male chicks brutally murdered ( as they can neither produce milk nor lay eggs ), and to have all other animals slaughtered after only a few short years of life ( via having a bolt shot into their brains and then having their throats slit – often while still conscious , or by driving an electrocution rod into their rectums to stimulate terminal grand mal seizures , or by being painfully suffocated by foam or carbon dioxide gas , or simply by being repeatedly struck in the head by boot or hammer ). If any one of these practices alone would be inflicted on any of our fellow human beings , we would rightly consider them horrible crimes of violence , if not versions of genocide . And if any one of these practices alone would be inflicted upon our beloved companion animals , we would reasonably cry out for the perpetrators thereof to be prosecuted on charges of animal cruelty .
And this all brings us to a most salient Truth : that what is wrong when done to humans or cats or dogs is just as wrong when done to cows or pigs or chickens or fish . My dear Friends , you know this is true in your Heart of Hearts , just as you know in your Heart of Hearts that you are by nature indeed true Animal Lovers .
Please start acting accordingly today . Thank you .
Current status of this Myth : Revoked Justification it provides for eating animals : NONE
“ Animal abusers aren ’ t only the dog fighters , the puppy mill operators and the backyard breeders of the world . When you consume animal products you too are an animal abuser . If you pay the hit man , then you are also the murderer .”
~ inspired by Marlaina Mortati
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