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Meet ‘Lucy’, an Australian sow. She is as intelligent as a three year old child, yet she spends days on end trapped in a tiny metal cage so small that she can not even turn around. Her piglets are subjected to painful surgical mutilations – without anaesthetic. These sensitive animals need your help.
AnimalsAustralia.com has an impressive team of not only highly skilled, creative artists working for them, and it goes to show how easy it can be for us to ignore the day to day mind numbingly barbaric factory farm practices that hopefully one day will be looked upon with shame and disgust by future generations.
It’s so easy to ignore issues surrounding where our food comes from.
That’s why it must be such an enormous challenge to reach the public and educate people on the reality that really is so hideous I find myself just wanting to avoid thinking about it altogether. Because it forces one to really take a hard look at not only our individual choices, but to look at our society and what’s deemed acceptable.
The EU wants to ban the importation of seal hides from Canada because of the cruelty, and this is a commendable step, but how can this be applied to only certain animals. Is it because seal hides are not food, or because they’re more photogenic and appealing to the heart strings?
What about pigs, and cows?
We cannot plead ignorance about whether or not animals have feelings, intelligence, and the characteristics we apply to determine whether a creature other than ourselves is deemed sentient enough to warrant us refraining from treating them as objects.
Gone are the days when people could justify their actions by claiming than animals like pigs and cows have no feelings, and no thought processes worth acknowledging. Science has proven otherwise, and I think even without science, our hearts tell us otherwise.
I suppose that’s why organizations such as these try to appeal to the heart and conscience of people who know with their hearts and minds that animals should not suffer like this. Sometimes it takes some imaginative media campaigns to get the point across.
