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we shouldn't kill other sentient beings if we don't need to.
and we shouldn't cause suffering if we don't need to
non-human animals have desires feelings
and the right to live free from oppression
people need to know that animals are here
with us and NOT for us.
Animal rights is part of the struggle for justice
because if we oppose violence, we should oppose it no matter who it's happening to.
My rescue traumatized "meat rabbit"
opened my eyes to seeing animals differently.
I have personally investigated factory farms
I can tell you without a doubt that animals are
routinely confined in cages so small they can't spread their limbs
or even turn around.
I can tell you
animals have their bodies mutilated,
and their lives robbed.
First and foremost, animal exploitation benefits animal industries, who line their pockets
from their suffering.
Animals are exploited, tortured, and killed on a massive scale because
this violence is normalized. It's socially acceptable,
and therefore invisible.
I cannot accept that it's a crime to try and end the practice
a force feeding animals until their bodies nearly
and sometimes actually do explode.
And I cannot accept the AETA.
exposing animal abuse
is not terrorism.
The AETA makes exposing cruelty to animals a worse crime
than committing animal cruelty.
With the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, the government is trying to muzzle an entire movement.
Today, I'm speaking out.