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"It's My Personal Choice to Eat Animals and Animal Products"

From 80s Pop Animals
Facebook posting July 2023

Humans, dogs, chickens, cows, cats, pigs, ducks, lambs, turkeys, fish, horses, and many more animals are sentient beings. It doesn’t matter how smart they are, or anything like that. What matters is, if they can experience pain and suffering why would you make a deliberate choice to cause pain and suffering and death for nothing more than personal pleasure? 

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“IT’S MY PERSONAL CHOICE TO EAT ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS!”

What is a “personal choice”? From an ethical standpoint, is it a personal choice to deliberately harm and kill other sentient beings for taste pleasure, or for any kind of satisfaction?
A sentient being is anyone who is fully self-aware, who can experience emotions, who has the capacity to suffer, and who wants to live.

YOUR “PERSONAL CHOICE” HAS SUFFERING VICTIMS.

Humans, dogs, chickens, cows, cats, pigs, ducks, lambs, turkeys, fish, horses, and many more animals are sentient beings. It doesn’t matter how smart they are, or anything like that. What matters is, if they can experience pain and suffering, why would you make a deliberate choice to cause pain and suffering and death for nothing more than personal pleasure?

You may not be completely aware of what happens to animals who are exploited and slaughtered to create and become human food (perhaps because you don’t want to know), but you do know that they are sentient beings, and you do know that being slaughtered isn’t pleasant. You also may be unaware of the detrimental effects that animal agriculture has on the environment, human health, and world hunger. Please do a little research so that you can make informed, ethical decisions regarding what you choose to purchase and consume.

Causing lifelong misery and abuse to emotional beings who are eventually slaughtered for food that humans do not need is not a “personal choice,” but rather a selfish abuse of power.

It’s never a personal choice when you harm and kill sentient beings who were never given a personal choice to avoid suffering and to live free, especially when their lives are violently terminated.

The GOOD NEWS is that it’s very easy to GO VEGAN! Because food is the biggest part of it, you can begin by changing your diet. Check out the 66-page TOTALLY AWESOME GUIDE TO THE VEGAN DIET AND PHILOSOPHY. In this free guide, you will find lots of ideas, menus, product suggestions, and advice about going vegan! This resource is designed to get you thinking about what’s available for you to eat and drink that doesn’t come from animal suffering and violence.


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