Posts tagged peace

“Animal rights advocates spend their time, energy, and resources speaking out for animals not because it’s fun, not because it’s lucrative, not because we get lots of praise for it. We are compelled to engage in this struggle because it’s right, because what’s happening every second of every day to millions of animals is wrong, because it has to change, and because we were once where you are, and we know that you have kind souls and the capacity to get where we are now, to a place of compassion, a place where you can envision a more peaceful way of living.

The struggle for animal rights, for animal liberation, isn’t about winning something for ourselves. The heart of animal rights is not about power, politics, or money. It’s not about exerting control, violence, or superiority. It’s certainly not about what people think of us. This struggle on behalf of nonhuman animals is about love and compassion and living in a way that is peaceful and just and without contradictions. It’s about opening our eyes and hearts to the possibility of a new and better world, new and better not just for the nonhuman animals on this planet, but for us too. There is a better, less violent, more loving and peaceable world out there, and we’re just trying to get to it. And maybe that is a possibility and a goal worth considering and investigating rather than attacking and dismissing.”  (via grimmjow)

Over the holiday weekend, I left 2 of these posters at a slaughterhouse that is just minutes from my childhood home.

A memorial for those who are so often forgotten.