“No age has ever been more solicitous to animals, more curious and caring. Yet no age has ever inflicted upon animals such massive punishments with such complete disregard” [Dominion by Mathew Scully]. Animals are more than often a reminder of an honest life, of an angelic attribution to nature, and of our regards to a type of moral stability. We are often reminded that kindness is among the nobler gestures of a human being, though rarely do we realize that it is among the least things that we can do. We are consumed at the thought that animals are here for us; to fulfill our desire for the barbarous, to unquestionably fit our needs and only our needs. They are created with blood, a brain and a pair of lungs. We stand above the pedestal, why degrade them far more? Not because they have a right to equality, but precisely because they don’t, because they hold no power over or close to a human being.

When dozens of chickens are cramped in a small pen, never being able to stretch a wing or learn to stand; when thousands of pigs are brutishly hung alive, while they see their blood spill until the last drop falls; when cows are artificially inseminated to provide milk, not for their calf, but for us; it is time to question this mentality and supplant our own beliefs of what we, as individuals, believe to be morally and ethically correct and ask what we are doing and what form of mercy we perform.

The reason why people feel as though they should tolerate animal cruelty is because they believe that we should focus on other injustices happening in the world ? genocide, war, natural catastrophes. Through we don’t realize that animal cruelty, when done in the smalls regards, produce one of the harshest outcomes.



It has been proven that children who commit cruelties against animals most often commit graver crimes against humanity. It is the mentality of disregarding a living, breathing creature.



Take it as you want. Deep in our minds we understand that animals deserve much greater attention that we give them. Deep in our minds we understand what it takes to produce one hamburger patty. Deep in our minds we understand that there is no difference between a pig used for pork and a dog crowned as a pet. Though what we don’t understand is why we still participate in such great crimes.



We’ve been brought up to believe that the consumption of animals is morally correct. But, I suppose, its up to us to think for ourselves.