For all their lives, animals farmed for the satisfaction of human taste pleasure as well as utility are subjected to horrors that are often kept out of sight and out of mind. We are often told that the animals we subject to cruelty are nothing more than drones, beings with little cognitive function that cannot even understand what is happening to them. This could not be further from the truth. Animals are conscious; they feel joy, love, and ultimately pain and suffering. We are taught as children that they must be respected and looked at with wonder, yet when it comes to deciding whether they deserve to live lives free of exploitation, humans commonly brush their capacity for suffering to the side in the name of a sandwich.
It's time we stop pretending we have the authority to decide whether a conscious, thinking, feeling being deserves to die. Collective change is the only way to ensure that humanity stops forcefully breeding, exploiting, and murdering sentient creatures that want nothing more than to live.
Below you will find many resources documenting what happens to farmed animals. Make no mistake, these are not isolated instances. Cruelty is inseperable from their exploitation, there is no right way to do the wrong thing. You cannot humanely end the life of someone who does not want to or need to die.
"The worst scream I have ever heard, by far, is a mother cow on a dairy farm screaming her lungs out day, after day, after day for her stolen baby to be given back to her. And why do they steal babies from their moms? Well, the dairy industry can't have little babies sucking up all that milk that was meant for them. Every time you have a glass of cow milk, some calf is not."
- Gary Yourofsky
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