Our Human World Is Based On The Suffering And Destruction Of Billions Of Non-Humans

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.
( Robert Louis Stevenson )

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefited from the treatment.
( James Randi )

Animals Are Forced To Rely On Humans To Survive.

In a perfect world, animals would be free to live their lives to the fullest.
Raising their young, enjoying their native environments and following their natural instincts.
However, domesticated dogs and cats cannot survive free in our concrete jungles, so we must take as good care of them as possible.
People with the time, money, love and patience to make a lifetime commitment to an animal can make an enormous difference by adopting from shelters or rescuing animals from a perilous life on the street.
But it is also important to stop manufacturing pets, thereby perpetuating a class of animals forced to rely on humans to survive.
( PETA )

We vegans care about what we put in our bodies, and we don’t want animals to suffer for it.
( Rose Winfold )

Cruelty has cursed the human family for countless ages.
It is almost impossible for one to be cruel to animals and kind to humans.
If children are permitted to be cruel to their pets and other animals, they easily learn to get the same pleasure from the misery of fellow-humans.
Such tendencies can easily lead to crime.
( Frederic A. McGrand )

Eating ‘Doctored’ Meat Is A Serious Health Risk.

Animals in factory farms are injected with hormones and other chemicals to improve the output of meat.
A cow who weighs 400 pounds is more valuable than one who weighs 300 pounds.
Consequently, these animals become unhealthy, lame, and despondent.
The products you find on your store shelves are optimised for taste.
They include ingredients like high fructose corn syrup, added salt, and monosodium glutamate.
For food aesthetics, they’re unnaturally dyed.
There is nothing natural or healthy when you eat ‘doctored’ animal flesh.
In fact, eating ‘meat’ has become a serious health risk.
( Rose Winfold )

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters and all automobile accidents combined.
If beef is your idea of real food for real people, you’d better live real close to a real good hospital.
( Neal D. Barnard, M.D. )

Results from animal tests are not transferable between species and therefore cannot guarantee product safety for humans.
In reality these tests do not provide protection for consumers from unsafe products, but rather they are used to protect corporations from legal liability.
( Herbert Gundersheimer, M.D. )

A Dangerous Level Of Antibiotics Used On Factory Farms.

The use of antibiotics in factory farms in Asia is set to more than double in just over a decade, with potentially damaging effects on antibiotic resistance around the world.
Factory farming of poultry in Asia is also increasing the threat of bird flu spreading beyond the region, with more deadly strains taking hold, according to a new report from a network of financial investors.
Use of antibiotics in poultry and pig farms will increase by more than 120% in Asia by 2030, based on current trends.
Half of all antibiotics globally are now consumed in China alone.
The growth of Asian meat production in intensive units is also producing a rise in greenhouse gas emissions from the food chain, with emissions likely to rise by more than 360million tonnes, the equivalent of running 100 coal-fired power plants for a year.
There are knock-on impacts such as deforestation, as China’s need for animal feed is responsible for more than a third of Brazil’s soybean production.
( Fiona Harvey, 14.08.2017 )

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird.
He was laying there and something struck me.
Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning?
( Marv Levy )

Those who abuse and mistreat animals, those who work in slaughterhouses, are always found to be of low intelligence and morally deficient.
( Rose Winfold )

Diseases From Factory Farms May End Up On Your Plate.

Chickens, cows, pigs, turkeys, and other sentient creatures are brought into this world by humans with no purpose other than to be brutally killed.
As factory farming becomes more efficient, more animals are killed within shorter time periods.

Factory farming efficiency results in the pain, degradation, and slaughter of millions of animals.
The animals are forced to live in squalid conditions that result in severe injury, debilitating disease, no social outlet, no fresh air, and other depravities.
No animal deserves to be treated so cruelly, yet that’s how these companies make their huge profits.

Commercial factory farms take up land we could use for housing, reforestation, and enabling the natural lives of animals indigenous to various parts of the world.
Much of the grain production goes toward feeding the animals who are eventually slaughtered rather than into vegetarian and vegan products that humans could consume.
Factory farms and slaughterhouses are rife with bacteria and other germs.

Animals stand in their own filth, suffer from untreated disease, and pass diseases easily due to close quarters and continuous confinement.
Those diseases can easily wind up on your plate.
( Rose Winfold )

Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.
( Jane Goodall )

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
( Robert Louis Stevenson )

The Endless Suffering That Supports Our Society.
At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion.
Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.
( Sir Arthur Conan Doyle )

If any kid realised what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.
I was so moved by the intelligence, sense of fun and personality of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.
( James Cromwell )

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he’s been given.
But up to now he hasn’t been a creator, only a destroyer.
Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild lifes become extinct, the climate’s ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
( Anton Chekhov )

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
( Lord George Gordon Byron )

I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection.
I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the pretence of sparing me a twinge or two.
( Robert Browning )

The Will Of A Dog.
When I die, please do not say, “I will never have another pet.”
Instead, go and find an unloved shelter dog, one whose life has held no joy or hope, and give my place to him.
The place I had in my human’s loving heart, my happy home, my cosy bed, and all my toys.

Please Don’t Harm Me Or My Family.
I am America’s only native marsupial.
I am an Opossum.
Some people think I look like a rat, but I am more closely related to the kangaroo and koala bears, who are also marsupials.
I clean up your environment, eat ticks, and keep snakes away.
If you leave out food, I will eat it.
I get hungry too.
I don’t have an easy life, so if you can leave table scraps and water outside for me, that would be a great help for me and my family.
I may look scary, but I don’t have rabies, and I will do you no harm.
Please don’t harm me or my family.
( Opossum )

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.
( Leo Tolstoy )

Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of.
It’s like biting into your grandmother.
( Morrissey )

If man wants freedom, why keep birds and animals in cages?
Truly, man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them.
We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
I have since an early age abjured the use of meat.
( Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519 )

Should Children Be Taken On School Trips To Abattoirs?

TV star Ellie Harrison has called for children to be taken on school trips to abattoirs so they can see where their meat really comes from.
The Countryfile host believes the visits would let pupils decide whether they still want to eat meat.

Ellie said, “To my knowledge, there are no abattoirs open to the public or school trips.
I think it’s a shame. It’s the last connection to our food that’s missing amid the resurgence of interest in food provenance.”

Despite fronting a programme about farming, Ellie revealed she often struggles with eating meat.
She told Countryfile Magazine, “Pigs I’ve observed have traits of intelligence on a par with dogs. Lambs are uncomfortably young when they go to slaughter and it’s noted at the market shed that ewes mourn for several nights. Am I ok with that?  No”.
( Tom Bryant, 09.04.2016 )

There are two hells.
One humans fear and one animals endure.
( Rose Winfold )

He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man.
He who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck.
He who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig’s blood.
He who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol.
These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
( Isaiah 66.3 )