We cannot deny the feelings that each animal has. The ability to suffer pain and loneliness. And to fear. Like us also, each animal has the ability to express contentment, to build family structures and want of satisfying basic instincts and desires.
We pay others to do things that none of us would engage in personally. Just because we don’t see it up close does not mean we are not responsible.
This year, 65 billion animals will die in factory farms.
Suffering is suffering. Murder is murder. The more helpless the victim, the more horrific the crime.
As I strip away all the material belongings around me, I see that I too, am animal.
We’re family. Together. On one planet.