Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

In addition, these animals are sentient. Just like you and I, they have individual
personalities … Just like you and I, they have desires and they have fears … Just like you
and I, they care for their young deeply, they care for their mates deeply, and they care for
their own lives deeply. To kill them for our own convenience is nothing short of
reprehensible.
It is time fro us all to see eating meat for what it truly is:
It is MURDER … plain and simple.
“All animals have the same capacity for suffering, but how we see them differs
and that determines what we’ll tolerate happening to them. In the western world,
we feel it wrong to torture and eat cats and dogs, but perfectly acceptable to do
the same to animals equally as sentient and capable of suffering. No being who
prides himself on rationality can continue to support such behavior.”
~ Twyla Francois
Eating meat may very well be your “personal choice” to live the way you want to live,
and yet by making this choice you are robbing animals of that same right. When over
120 BILLION animals are killed every year across the planet for humanity’s “personal”
food choices – choices that are NOT necessary for our survival, but rather are based
solely on pleasuring our palate, eating meat ceases to be a matter of personal choice… At
that point, a point where we have all already arrived –
… eating meat becomes a crime.
“I am in favor of animal
rights as well as human
rights. That is the way of a
whole human being.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
“The time will come when
men such as I will look
upon the murder of
animals as they now look
on the murder of men.”
~ Leonard da Vinci
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats
meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act
in this fashion is simply immoral.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
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