“ Anyone who can try and explain the ‘ correctness ’ of a cage has never been in one ; never felt the sides of it pushing and clamping and constricting ; never felt its walls & wires denying access to the natural world … When a mother therein wants to make a nest for her young , she cannot . And we now know what happens to her children – regardless of her particular species , her babies are always forcibly taken from her ; always taken away to be mutilated just as she was and imprisoned just as she is ; just like her , deprived of their dignity and starved for happiness and purpose … And then they will be brutally murdered – all of them ; they will be killed and eaten by beings who do not need their flesh to survive ; they will be killed just because of ignorant stupidity or callous convention or raw greed .” ~ inspired by Marji Beach
“ All animals have the same capacity for suffering , but how we see them differs – and that alone is what determines what we will tolerate happening to them . In the western world , we feel it wrong to torture and eat cats and dogs , and yet simultaneously find it perfectly acceptable to inflict the same torment on other animals equally as sentient and equally as capable of suffering . No being who prides himself on either morality or rationality can continue to support such blatantly irrational and obviously immoral behavior .”
~ inspired by Twyla Francois
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