“We all desire joy and freedom, and seek to avoid suffering.”
Friday, December 13, 2019
What We All Share
Thursday, February 23, 2017
The Fur Is Dying: Still Unfashionably Cruel, Fur Industry Faces Major Backlash
Mink farm in Ontario, Canada. Photo by Jo-Anne McArthur/WeAnimals, 2014.
The thrill of glimpsing a wild animal in their habitat is as much in our true nature, as it is in the animal’s to desire freedom. We are a culture of Planet Earth documentaries, awed by the unbridaled beauty of the animal kingdom. Yet on fur farms, those same animals endure the indignity of captivity so severe it strips them of all the natural behaviors we find so enthralling. In this time of our heightened awareness of societal injustice, mindfulness can extend to what we eat and wear. As a moral species, we have long acknowledged that inflicting suffering on sentient beings for trivial means is wrong. Fur, and other materials that are the products of oppression, therefore have no place in the modern wardrobe.
Friday, November 18, 2016
Imagine What a Vegan World Would Look Like
David and Piopito at Santuario Igualdad Interespecie in Chile. Photo by María Gabriela Penela.
For thousands of years, the human species has relied on the exploitation of our fellow inhabitants on Earth – the nonhuman animals. It has long been our society’s status quo, the norm. There are over 7.5 billion people on the planet. Nearly eight times that many farm animals are killed by humans annually. But what if the use of animals was no longer part of the equation?