HAVE YOU EVER SEEN: a “circus” animal being tasered and shocked into performing according to its master’s harsh direction? How about lions and tigers beaten mercilessly so that they will cower and do as they are commanded to do? What about the fact that they live in confined tight cages with no room to roam; and that they have lost any freedom to be who and what they are?
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN: a cow suspended in air and hanging by a hind leg for the blood to rush to its head, while it is crying and moaning from intense pain and smelling its upcoming moment of death; Its body being stripped of its hide/skin, and its body parts dissected and marketed as food?
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN: a mama pig with her newborn mass of piglets sucking from her tired worn out body, while she is pinned to a cold hard concrete slab so that her babies can grow big and strong quickly and the entire family can be taken to slaughter in order to be carved into ribs, chops, bacon, sausage, and hams?
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN: a rhesus monkey being prepared to be shot into space alone having no idea that it is being sent to its death in order to record atmospheric conditions?
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN: adorable sweet innocent bunnies with their eyelids removed and other torturous conditions so that they can test mascara and other makeup for human women?
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN: chickens by the thousands clothespinned to line so that they can have their throats slit and dropped into boiling water so their feathers will fall out while they are being dismembered for fried, baked, broiled, or grilled breasts, legs, wings, necks, and drumsticks.
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN: fish gasping for air as they are being dragged from the river, lake, or ocean to have their heads removed, then skinned, boned, to be eaten or better yet, to just be gutted and stuffed to be hung on a wall boasting of this trophy catch?
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN: a bear or deer shot with arrows or bullets while just wandering innocently and doing its thing in the woods and its bloody body being tossed on the roof of a vehicle to be taken to the taxidermist to turn it into a rug or wall hanging?
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN: newborn live baby chicks being thrown into a crusher that turns them into fertilizer?
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN: the unsuspecting mama cow being milked incessantly for supermarket sales, while her baby is whisked away to become calves liver and other brutal and cruel ways of “making money,” and the mama upon becoming “dry” gets carted to the slaughterhouse to finish her off?
These are just a few of the ways that we, humans, dehumanize ourselves for the sake of financial gain. Anyone not speaking out on behalf of these innocent victims of greed and numbness and rejecting living and being VEGAN, is equally responsible for the pain, suffering, and death of innocent creatures.
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN: Yourself in a mirror and had an honest conversation with your conscience?
WHAT KIND OF LIFE DO YOU CHOOSE?