30 Days of Vegan (Day 27); and Animal Lovers That Eat Meat

Day 27..

I'd like to address some hypocrisy that's starting to make my skin crawl on a regular basis these days.

You see, this morning, I started seeing several posts on Facebook about this german shepherd that was running out of time in an Indiana shelter. The shelter was going to put him down today if they couldn't find a home immediately.

Sadly, within a couple hours, no home was found, and he was put down.

Then, I proceeded to read an outpour of 'heartbroken' posts in response to it. Here are a few examples:

"For some reason can't handle this post today...makes me ill and upset."

"Sickening that irresponsible people do this to man's best friend.... sick."

"This just absolutely breaks my heart. How can we, in America, kill beautiful healthy dogs in the prime of their lives? Will never understand this. So sad...Bless his heart."

And while I too, was extremely sad they didn't find him a home, I really wanted to ask every single one of these 'heartbroken' people if they eat meat.. and if they do, could they explain why?

It is hypocrisy at its finest, to claim to be an animal lover, to acknowledge how beautiful and sacred our 'pets' are when they are relatively 'kindly' put to sleep, but completely ignore the atrocities that are committed against farm animals.

Because the truth is, a dog is a pig, and a pig is cow.. when it comes to their capacity to enjoy life, to feel love, and to feel pain.

There is NO difference. And that is the most inconvenient of truths.