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“The fact that we yearn for escaped animals to live speaks volumes about how we value their lives once they become separated from the anonymous herd. We then acknowledge that they are individuals with their own personalities and a clear desire to live. We recognize that there is something they are trying to escape from, that they are fearful and in a situation they do not want to be in, which is so troubling that they would rather take the risk of running into the unknown than allow what is happening to them to continue. In essence, we view these animals as underdogs, heroes overcoming adversity, and yet the adversity they are trying to overcome is us.”
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“A movement is always made up of individuals, and it's the cumulative effort to these individuals that creates change.”
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“Furthermore, it seems back to front to worry about the extinction of animals who have been selectively bred and don't exist naturally to begin with when our current system of animal agriculture is the number one driver of species extinction more generally.”
― This is Vegan Propaganda
― This is Vegan Propaganda
“We have destroyed millions of years of evolution in the blink of an eye, quite literally bulldozing our way around this finite planet.”
― This is Vegan Propaganda
― This is Vegan Propaganda
“The reality is that if we took the legally sanctioned practices from the animal farming industries and then applied them to other situations, we would think those practices horrendous. For example, if dog owners were cutting off their pets' tails and chopping their teeth out, we would condemn that as being horrific animal abuse. But we do it to pigs and call it high welfare. If someone was killing puppies by thumping their heads against a wall or dislocating their necks, we would call that evil, yet that happens to animals such as piglets and chickens and we call it humane. But the experience is the same for the individual animal, regardless of what species they are.”
― This is Vegan Propaganda
― This is Vegan Propaganda
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