images posted are to raise awareness and save lives from senseless killing of adoptable animals. Today billions of animals are slaughtered, experimented on, shot, poisoned, beaten by "professional trainers," chained, drowned, and dissected. This happens routinely despite our ability to choose alternatives and even though scientific proof and common sense show that animals have the ability to think
and to feel pain, love, joy, terror, and other emotions. It happens because animals, with their communication, appearance, and interests that, on the surface, may seem so different from ours, are powerless to stop us. Just as it was always wrong to oppress and abuse less powerful humans, it is wrong to abuse and oppress animals. Because today's victims of tyranny are unable to defend themselves, it is vital that people of principle speak out for them. Animals' lives are as important to them as ours are to us. We must stand up for them, just as good people from other eras spoke out and even risked their own lives in order to defend women, children, African- and Native Americans, and other oppressed groups. Every day, animals lose their lives in awful ways. From the factory farm to the dinner table, they are mutilated, crammed into cages, and killed in painful ways. They are shackled, beaten, and forced to perform for entertainment. They are poisoned and blinded in experiments. And they are skinned alive for fashion. They suffer, yet they cannot ask for the abuse to stop. Proverbs 31:8
Speak up for those who can not speak up for themselves.
