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But it's not an act of kindness to not needlessly hurt someone. If we walk down the street and don't kick a dog, that's not an act of kindness. In the same way, avoiding forcing animals into gas chambers and mac-erators and onto kill lines isn't an act of benevolence - it's an act of justice and respect for the basic moral consideration that all animals deserve.

it is estimated that globally around 220 million land animals are killed for food every day,' and when you factor in marine animals that number increases to somewhere between 2.4 and 6.3 billion? Every. Single. Day. That means that somewhere between 28,000 and 73,000 animals are killed every second,

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The Paradox of Animal Welfare Legislation: The idea that animal welfare is important because it means that we are not causing as much suffering to an animal as we could. But just because we could do something worse, doesn’t mean that what we are doing is ok.

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"The issue of animal exploitation far transcends the purchasing of eating meat and is instead fundamentally an issue of how we view our relationship with other sentient life. Consumption is only a symptom. The real problem is our mentality, a mentality that judges some lives to be less important because of the pleasure we get from consuming their flesh or wearing their skin."