Friends at Farm Sanctuary. Acton, California, USA, 2014. Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals
“No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.”
The difference between a dog and a pig or a cow is all in our perception. They all are sentient beings capable of showing affection, feeling joy and grief, having interspecies friendships, and can learn and play and experience sadness and pain. Here are some videos that will make you smile…
Is it really fair of humans to love dogs and cats unconditionally, but eat other animals?
If we can live happy and healthy lives without harming animals…why wouldn’t we?
Is it fair to act like humans are better than other species and can inflict whatever pain and suffering we want on them?
I hope those made you smile!
Perhaps this could be the start of a new relationship with animals– Here are some more questions to ask yourself.
Will you choose empathy, or apathy? Compassion or ignorance?
To learn more about our relationship with animals and how we can be the change we wish to see in the world, check out the following:
Animal Agriculture is Destroying Earth
Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the life of a cow on a feedlot, or a monkey in a laboratory, or an elephant in the circus, or a bull in a rodeo, or a mink on a fur farm. Then people would be awakened from their soporific states and finally understand the horrors that are inflicted on the animal kingdom by the vilest species to ever roam this planet: the human animal!