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What we do as animal rescuers and advocates matters. It matters to the fortunate animals we help. It matters that we save pets from shelters, that we foster the homeless, that we make phone calls and send emails, that we get a friend or family member to go vegan.
But in the scheme of things, we are pissing into the wind. We are trying turn back the tide with tea cups.
Imagine a world in which all of our efforts were successful:
- Imagine every dog and cat having a home.
- No more strays, puppy mills or pet shops.
- Imagine no more death camp "shelters."
- Imagine the end of the dog meat trade.
- Imagine no more whaling or sealing. No more dolphins in captivity.
- Imagine the end of hunting and trapping.
- Imagine no fur farms, fur stores, and people who wear fur.
- Imagine the end of circuses, zoo, and rodeos.
- Imagine no more vivisection and animal testing.
- Imagine no horse racing, dog racing, dog fighting and bullfighting.
- Imagine no consumption of bear bile, rhino horn and tiger penises.
- Imagine no demand for ivory.
If each of us were a hundred activists, we wouldn't see such progress in our lifetimes.
But if we did, can you imagine the world?
It would be a world which is still Hell on Earth for cows, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, and turkeys. A world which still murders a BILLION animals a week in slaughterhouses!
Clearly, our present course of action won't begin to change the world.
Our mindset and perspective is not focused on the obvious truth:
To win animal rights we must bring down the capitalist system that enslaves them, the governments that enable it and the religions which condone it.
Nothing short of a revolution!
A revolution in thinking.
A revolution in understanding.
A revolution in political action.
And, eventually, a revolution in the streets.
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