Habitually, unquestioningly, daily you participate in our gratuitous violent abuse. As if it says nothing about you, as if it poses no problem, as if it’s neither the bearer of information nor serious questions. As if you’re anaesthetised to atrocities. We are #OneBillionScreams

Farm Transparency Project installed cameras at TQM slaughterhouse, Australia, capturing the brutal treatment & slaughter of thousands of sheep & week-old calves, many who were pushed, thrown, beaten & even killed while fully conscious. www.farmtransparency.org

Torn from our mothers & considered worthless by those who force bred us into existence, weighed down by the chains of impotence & fear, we await our own brutal death at the hands of our icy hearted killers whilst you beneficiaries of violence lick your empathy devoid lips We are #OneBillionScreams

Hear hear Not to mention the smell of those visually sterilized aisles containing the body parts of animals who died in terror. The stench is undeniably foul once one’s senses adjust to solely eating food that was grown, not born & killed. Especially the ‘seafood’ aisle. Disgusting.

Insulated in your relative comfort, wrapped in deceitful narratives of “natural/normal/necessary”, you ignore our pain, our terror, our violent abuse, our brutal deaths, as if distance absolves you of accountability, as if lies & euphemisms justify your atrocities. We are #OneBillionScreams

If we ignore injustices that others are subjected to, if we only care about oppression when it’s happening to us, then we clearly don’t care about injustice. It’s not convenient to fight for what’s right, but that’s it, eh? You only care when it inconveniences you We are #OneBillionScreams

And people wonder WHY humanity is doomed? Look at all of the victims?

You see yourselves as doing nothing evil, nothing out of the ordinary, just behaving innocuously like everyone else. Yet simultaneously you’re the reason slavery, cruelty, violence, mutilation & brutal death is inflicted upon us. You demand eternal massacres & bloodbaths. We are #OneBillionScreams

If we refuse to cease our needless, eternal violence then we’ve failed. If we continue to act upon self interest rather than ethics then we’ve failed. If we refuse to extend full moral consideration to all then we’ve failed. If we continue to mistake our failure for civilisation then we’re a joke.

It’s utterly astonishing how many people think that their self-serving opinion upon needless violence is more important or relevant than the perspective of us victims of violence. It’s piss easy to rationalise & excuse it if it’s not happening to you, eh? We are #OneBillionScreams

We surely have a duty to interrogate the cultural norms we are conditioned to accept. We surely have a duty to not only reject any that cannot be justified, but to fight against them. Social justice has never been advanced one inch by unthinking conformism. We are #OneBillionScreams

You serve me your social norms & your morality & expect my unquestioning obedience. But your norms are indefensible violence, your morality is self-serving iniquity, a monstrous hypocrisy. So to obey I must abandon ethics, critical thought & integrity. Nah. No chance. #OneBillionScreams

From the moment they’re cognisant, you must condition your children to be indifferent to cruelty lest they judge you for not only your own indifference to cruelty, but your willing participation in systematic, egregious cruelty on an unfathomable scale We are #OneBillionScreams

If we define power only as the ability to dominate & subjugate, violence will remain an inevitable manifestation of power. If we define power as collective agency, contingent upon equal moral consideration & mutual aid, then solidarity & social justice become certainties We are #OneBillionScreams

. . their own selfish refusal to care for animals & cease their participation in violence. It’s a sly way of deceiving yourself into believing that “this issue doesn’t require my attention”.

Absolutely. It’s just imposing a hierarchy of care that falsely suggests that caring for nonhumans is hostile to caring for humans, when in actuality violence against humans & that towards animals is interdependent so caring for both is essential. People just impose the hierarchy to justify . . .

The argument that humans should only worry about human suffering is disingenuous at best. It’s really just a lame excuse. Anyone with the slightest bit of intelligence knows it’s not binary.

“Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality.” - Bernard E. Rollin

. . And additionally, all oppression isn’t just related, one form engenders & constitutes the next. It’s no coincidence that the average raging anti vegan is nearly always also xenophobic/racist/transphobic/misogynistic/ableist etc.

💯% Similarly with “natural”, and “normal”. They are words employed as moral escape hatches by those who refuse to interrogate the ethical implications of their unquestioned, unthinking actions.

It’s so sad that we have failed to evolve past the might makes right mindset, esp considering the global uncertainty & everyone’s rights being increasingly threatened by billionaire psychopaths. & now it’s morphing into yet one more toxic feedback loop - ‘we have bigger problems than animal ab/use’

Veganism is the refusal to support a violent system that prioritizes profit over life and reduces individuals to products and commodities, a direct rejection of exploitation in all its forms.

Contrary to what many seem to believe, veganism is so much more than a diet. It’s about abstaining from intentionally causing or supporting harm to all sentient beings. There’s no valid moral argument against that goal. The only honest argument is taste, and a life is worth far more than that.

'Culture' is not a shield for cruelty and inflicting unnecessary suffering on the vulnerable.

🧵 1/2 You may claim to you know how us exploited animals are treated but most of you are lying & couldn’t care less. Instead you employ “bad faith”; a type of self deception whereby you hide the truth from yourself to avoid moral accountability for your sickening actions We are #OneBillionScreams

2/2 Amidst your indifference & despite your wilful ignorance, we’re born into a world of suffering. Denied of meeting even our most basic of subjective needs, we struggle, resist & try desperately to escape. We are political animals subjected to your vile ideology. We are #OneBillionScreams

To assign the right to moral consideration on the basis of species membership rather than upon sentience & whether an individual can suffer & feel pain, is to ignore the most significant moral criteria & act upon arbitrary, prejudicial, self-serving speciesist grounds. We are #OneBillionScreams

#FAIL 👎🏻 NonVegan animal welfare &/or environmental initiatives continue to miss the mark, as was affirmed yet again via a segment on the news this morning re the #GlobalGhostGearInitiative. Always a bandaid solution, never a focus on accountability or prevention. It’s honestly fn pathetic this point

Inconvenient truth time 📢 Being thankful for the end products of unnecessary animal exploitation and harm is self-soothing nonsense. Please, help put an end to our ongoing ab/use of animals & learn to live vegan ⚖️ #Veganuary #DitchDairy #DitchEggs veganuary.com #AnimalRights HowDoIGoVegan.com

F cultural habits and traditions that include animal abuse. Progressive people don’t cling to outdated barbarism

Much like Santa & the Easter bunny, it’s time to stop believing in the bucolic fantasies we’ve been fed since childhood. The simple truth being there is N O T H I N G symbiotic about our relationship w nonhuman species in modern times. WatchDominion.com #Veganuary veganuary.com

It may seem counterintuitive, but a vegan society would require less land/crops than our current outdated, cruel & ecologically catastrophic ’food’ system. And yes, that is taking grazing land into account. #Veganuary

‘If the 🌎 adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use fr 4 to 1 billion hectares - - We could reduce the amount of land used for grazing & croplands used to grow animal feed’ ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

The feeling you get when you see me being slaughtered, that disturbing sense of repulsion & discomfort, that’s your right supermarginal gyrus, the part of your brain responsible for innate empathy operating healthily & rattling your moral conscience. What’s it telling you? We are #OneBillionScreams

You excuse the cruelty & violence that is inflicted upon us by pretending it’s an unfortunate but unavoidable fact of life, something a bit sad but best not thought about. Within this fabrication, this obfuscation, this perjury, this lie you absolve yourself of culpability We are #OneBillionScreams

A society wholly premised & built upon eternal systematic violence inflicted upon the most vulnerable, upon those who are unable to organise & fight back, dreams of peace. If the devil existed, he could hope for nothing better. We are #OneBillionScreams

‘If the devil existed, he could hope for nothing better’… 😞😞😞

Consuming the end products of the exploitation & killing of nonhuman animals is a dominant, conditioned, institutionalised, violent cultural ideology. The ideology of domination & subjugation, of entitlement & tyrannical oppression, of gross normalised injustice. We are #OneBillionScreams

Most people are determined to ensure that violent atrocities eternally continue unabated. Most people want needless violence inflicted upon the vulnerable to continue be normalised. Most people want a callous, merciless, gratuitously violent world. We are #OneBillionScreams

Unseen, unheard by you, hundreds of billions of us scream in torment, struggle, resist & desperately try to escape your tyranny. But in vain; you refuse to care. You’ve already sacrificed your empathy, compassion & integrity on the altar of self gratification. We are #OneBillionScreams

Spare a thought . . . but that’s it eh? You refuse to consider what I endure. You lack the courage to empathise, let alone the decency change your behaviour so that billions like me may be saved from this egregiously cruel fate. Our lives don’t even register in your thoughts. #OneBillionScreams

Inconvenient truth time Humans are the least important species on the planet 🌏

The goal is NOT a flexitarian world or even a vegetarian world, but a VEGAN world. People need to be fully educated. They need to SEE and HEAR what the animal ag industry tries so desperately to hide. They need to watch Earthlings and Dominion. They DON’T need excuses for animal exploitation.

1 in 3 pets are homeless ‘Forever home wanted…’ 🐕 ‘Looking to rehome…’ 🐹 ‘Had a baby…’ 🐈‍⬛ Abandoned animal after abandoned animal after abandoned animal interspersed w irresponsible animal breeders selling/promoting profitable breeds. Enough Is Enough. No more excuses. #AdoptDon’tShop #Spay&Neuter

Your laws don’t protect me, nor the stated values or dubious claims to decency of you who unthinkingly continue to buy the end products of my violent exploitation, so I’m left in the hands of merciless people who only want to profit from my cruel abuse. We are #OneBillionScreams

“Humane Slaughter” The arrogance of thinking that the salient issue is how you personally feel about the method of murder, rather than the perspective of the murder victim who doesn’t want to die, reveals a gross level of self-serving moral ineptitude. We are #OneBillionScreams

If there was a scoring system for oxymorons there’s absolutely no doubt that “humane slaughter” would be the all-time leader. “Humane slaughter“ is a lie designed to assuage the guilt of those who support the exploitation, torture, and killing of animals by buying animal products…nothing more.

🧵1/2 Our indoctrination at the hands of those who themselves have been indoctrinated begins the moment we’re cognisant. Already conditioned to be indifferent to atrocities, they ridicule our compassion, teach us to suppress our innate empathy & become as unfeeling & merciless as them.

2/2 Housed in unnatural, cramped, distress inducing environments, denied of meeting their most basic of subjective needs, traumatised pigs may gnaw on cages, workers or each other, so their teeth are clipped to protect profits & workers. We are #OneBillionScreams

Suffering is universal to all sentient individuals. When others suffer, if we’re not overridden with prejudice & have any empathy at all, consequently we feel their suffering. So, if we care about more than just ourselves, it’s incumbent upon us to cease our participation in all oppression.