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Dear vegetarians: you aren’t doing enough.
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Photos from animal rights organization EligeVeganismo. This was the activity performed in commemoration of the International Animal Rights Day, on 10th December 2011. We were about 80 activists, some came from outside Santiago (Chile’s Capital).
These are all victims of animal exploitation. Their corpses were collected from factory farms, dairy, labs, street, and other such places.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5TSqaGu0n0&feature=colike Here’s the video.
“63 years ago, the whole world, unanimously, condemned the atrocities of World War II, trough a Declaration that pretended that none of those horrors would recur. Until today, millions of animals die on a daily basis; most of them to be made human food, in the most absolute and painful of silences. We get them usually in pieces, as meat, leather, fur, or substances like milk and eggs, others are caged beneath a glass on a pet store, caged on a zoo, or in a circus spectacle.
For this reason, the International Animal Rights Day is more than just a memorial, it’s a call to reflection and the will to leave inertia. If we apply non violence, and look for peace, this act is a call to practice every day respect for animals, those who don’t express on languages we do, and are out of our structures, but share with us the most basic characteristics, the will to live, to determinate their own lives, and the desire to fully live their freedom.” Isabel Collao Lemus, EligeVeganismo’s coordinator. Translation of the speech from video
“It is imperative to educate people that there is no moral difference between meat, and dairy. There is as much suffering in a glass of milk, than in a pound of steak. Indeed, given that animals exploited for dairy live longer, are treated worse, and end up in the same slaughterhouse as do “meat” animals; we can say with some confidence that there is probably more suffering involved in dairy products.”
~ Gary Lawrence Francione (American legal scholar)
