the online vegan

When you maintain that an animal’s dearest wish for continued existence, and its entire potential lifetime of meaningful experiences, are worth less than the non-essential taste of bacon, hamburger, or cheese; that animals should actually be killed for these fleeting and replaceable pleasures, despite an abundance of healthy plant-based alternatives; then you are saying in effect that these animals are trash.” ~Ashley Capps, in her article “No Matter How ‘Humane,’ Eating Animals Means Treating Them Like Trash,” which explores how so-called “humane” animal farming ideologically reinforces and entrenches the very system of “factory farming” it claims to oppose.