Since high school i have wanted to work as a voice for animals. I once asked my mother why Humane Society commercials get more response than commercials raising money for starving children. Me being a kid, she made something up. She said that people feel less bad for humans because we are too close to the situation and cannot allow ourselves to picture someone we know hurting that bad. Animals are distant enough from us that emotion sets in. They are our family as well, and are generally more defenseless than humans. I have no idea if this is psychologically correct, but it makes sense to me.
Animals are the same as humans in my eyes. They, however, do not have a voice or a way to defend themselves from inhumane acts. They are caged, beaten, slaughtered, separated from their young, and killed slow painful deaths. We would never consider this ok to be done to humans, but most of society doesnt think twice about doing it to animals.
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