What You Can Do

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." —Anne Frank

Throughout their lives, farmed animals are subjected to immeasurable suffering and degradation. Shortly after birth, they are ripped from their mothers, if they even ever knew them. And then, without anesthesia, they are castrated, branded, and even have their teeth, horns, beaks, ears, and tails mutilated. After these injuries, they suffer through months—and sometimes years—of intense confinement, only to be followed by unimaginable slaughter. They are considered mere property; worthy of little—if any—moral consideration.

The abuses forced upon animals every day at livestock auctions, on factory farms, and in slaughterhouses exist only because we allow them to through our purchases of meat, eggs, and dairy products.

Despite our routine exploitation of farmed animals, they are individuals with distinct personalities. Like us, they experience both pain and pleasure. Like us, they desire to live and to be free from misery.

While animals may not be able to liberate themselves, each one of us can take a powerful stand against the cruelty and abuse they suffer. Throughout history, those with power have ruthlessly exploited those at their mercy. But, there has always been resistance to this might-makes-right attitude. By becoming vegan, we can become a part of that resistance and can begin to establish a relationship between humans and other animals that is not based on violence and tyranny, but rather, is based on compassion and respect.

Please, speak out for the voiceless. Stand up for the oppressed. Please, go vegan.

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