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As advocates for the vegan world that has finally been recognised as the only hope for our species and the planet we share with all others, we cannot afford to relax for even a moment.
Every day I see posts using fanciful estimates about the number of
individuals our species slaughters each year. There are even suggestions
(often circulated by those seeking to claim credit – and frequently,
donations) that slaughter numbers are falling.
They are not falling. The slaughter of land-based species has actually
increased by almost 700,000,000 since the last available statistical year.
(Statistics by
FAOSTAT)
The numbers above, which average at 2,374 individuals per second(!), do not
include numerous other groups including:
Not one of these deaths is necessary. Not one.
Make no mistake. We are now in the midst of the fight of our lives; the
fight for THEIR lives, and the fight for the very existence of our living
world. We no longer have options. Anyone who tells us differently, has a
vested interest in lying to us.
I should like to add one further point to ponder.
Every one of our victims is and was an individual. The world of pain and
fear that was inflicted on each of them to fulfil the demands of nonvegan
consumers was made no greater and no less by how many of their friends and
family were suffering alongside them. To brutalise one defenceless and
innocent individual without cause or conscience, is to brutalise one too
many. Only by ending consumer demand for harm and killing can harm and
killing cease to be profitable.
As advocates for the vegan world that has finally been recognised as the
only hope for our species and the planet we share with all others, we can’t
afford to relax for even a moment. We need to know the facts and we
absolutely must keep our focus firmly where it needs to be; on our victims.
Be vegan.
Please read about our dying planet: Why is animal agriculture so bad for the planet?
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