Lies

So many people think that animal rights advocates are lying, or at the very least exaggerating, when we talk about what happens to animals in our society. They think we make the conditions animals are kept in seem worse than they really are, and that we make the animals seem more aware of what's happening to them than they really are. They think we make up all of these horrible stories about things that happen to animals on factory farms, and yet they believe everything they hear from the animal agriculture representatives.

People even believe those fucking "happy cow" commercials. Would you be happy if you were raped every year and then had your baby, the only positive thing that has every happen to you in your life, ripped away from you as soon as he was born? Would you think " it's just so sunny and warm here I can't even feel the crippling grief of losing my baby, or the pain from the pus-filled growths that have developed on my breast from the constant abuse"? Somehow I doubt that you would. I've watched a lot of horrifying videos of animal abuse and I have never seen anything more heartbreaking than a mother cow watching her baby be taken away. Trust me, no matter what state she lives in, she will never be happy.

Why do people believe the "happy cow" people and not us? We have nothing to gain from lying to people and they have everything to gain. Animal right activists would have no personal benefit if the entire world stopped eating meat tomorrow. None of us are going to get rich from convincing people not to eat eggs. We won't become famous or powerful by getting you to drink soymilk. The only thing we will ever get from achieving our goals is the comfort of knowing we helped to create a better world for nonhuman animals. The people who are truly dedicated to fighting for animal rights actually make large personal and financial sacrifices in order to further the cause. Some even risk their own freedom in order to provide freedom for animals. Still, somehow, people assume we're the ones who are lying.

The animal agriculture industry, on the other hand, depends entirely on convincing people to use their products. If they can't get you to buy meat, milk and eggs they lose everything, and "everything" is a lot. They know you wouldn't buy something that you knew caused extreme suffering, so they just tell you that it doesn't. The point is, the people who own the large meat, dairy and egg companies have gotten very, very rich from lying to you about what happens on their farms.

So here's my question; why would you believe the people who can become millionaires by lying to you and not the people who have absolutely nothing to gain from it?