Patty Mark's Call-Out to Vegan Activists Everywhere
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FROM Patty Mark, Animal Liberation Victoria
July 2019

We know most animals we see and try to help have no hope, this is our cross to bear and it's damn heavy. But without us, they have NO hope.

Call out to vegan activists everywhere. Sometimes it gets too hard and we feel like we'll explode. We cry, we ache, we scream. The day will come when our family and friends truly understand that we live with perpetual traumatic stress.

We are always surrounded by those we love and respect so deeply being tormented, bullied, tortured and killed with abandon. Then only to have their dead bodies cut up in pieces, sometimes before our eyes.

It's hard to keep strong and persevere, but we must. Take breaks when needed, this is so important. So much has changed over the 41 years I've been an activist, (when the word vegan couldn't even be pronounced properly much less understood). And we are nearing a tipping point as the climate necessary for us all to survive is breaking down.

We know most animals we see and try to help have no hope, this is our cross to bear and it's damn heavy.

But without us, they have NO hope.

Solidarity and Strength xx

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Originally posted on Patty's Facebook page, July 1.

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