A Follow Up To Our Four Night Vigil
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM

Joanna Lucas, Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary
August 2014

[Note from All-Creatures.org: Please also read "Hoofin It" with HSUS AND Our Vigil - Bison AND Our Vigil - Lambs and Sheep AND Our Vigil - Pigs AND Our Vigil - Cows]

We call on all vegans to please realize that the consequences of opposing "factory farming" instead of "all animal farming" are devastating for the animals.

Promoting the feel-good lie that "humane" farming is, or can ever be, anything but an atrocity results only in increasing the demand for its blood products and, with it, in perpetuating the horror that the victims are forced to endure under the label "high welfare."

It is with heavy hearts and exhausted souls that we had to shine the light of truth on the HSUS sponsored "Hoofin It" event which, as egregious as it was, was only one of countless events and partnerships that HSUS has had with animal killers for years.

HSUS' crimes against the animals have been hidden in plain sight for anyone to see.

Although our original four-night Vigil series was intended to present the "hoofed animal menu" victim's perspective during each night's horrific event, the entire Vigil was also meant to expose a much larger, more pervasive trend that not only the HSUS has been engaging in, but most major animal "rights" organizations, as well as major sanctuaries.

Their insistence on using the language of "factory farming" rather than "Animal Farming", and their focus on "humane" reforms -- which imply that animals can be enslaved, raped, kidnapped and murdered "humanely" -- is what opened the flood gates for events like the HSUS sponsored "Hoofin It" atrocity, and many others.

This was not the first of its kind and will not be the last of its kind -- sponsored by, sanctioned by, and created by the animals' advocates' refusal to include all animals in their advocacy.

What we've seen is a swapping out of one group of victims for another, and organizations calling it "progress".

What we've seen is that huge multinational corporations (Tyson, Goodtimes Burgers, Chipotle...) are now using the language that animal protection organizations have given them, to promote the sale and consumption of "non factory farmed" animals.

What we know is that, when confronted with the horrors of factory farming, the public's default response is now to look for products of animal misery that are labeled "humane"-- thereby increasing the demand for animal suffering and death -- instead of understanding that the only way to end this massive injustice is to become vegan.

At Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary, we know the victims of all animal farming, and we know that our job as their advocates is to tell the public -- and Vegans -- the whole truth about the cruelty and injustice inherent in all animal farming/ use.

We call on all vegans to please realize that the consequences of opposing "factory farming" instead of "all animal farming" are devastating for the animals.

Promoting the feel-good lie that "humane" farming is, or can ever be, anything but an atrocity results only in increasing the demand for its blood products and, with it, in perpetuating the horror that the victims are forced to endure under the label "high welfare."

Please tell the whole truth in your own advocacy, and call on all animal protection organizations and sanctuaries to do the same.

Live vegan and educate others about the vegan imperative.

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