Tag: animal stories
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How Pigs are Treated in the Meat Industry VS at Sanctuaries
In the pork industry pigs are treated like commodities. They are confined, forcibly impregnated, have their babies taken away, have their teeth, tails and testicles cut off without anaesthetic, weak piglets are killed by being smashed on the ground, and all of them end up being packed onto trucks and taken to a slaughterhouse where…
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Pigs Going Into Slaughterhouse – Did You Pay for This?
These images were taken by activists at a slaughterhouse in Whanganui. Look into these pigs eyes. Can’t you see their fear? Can’t you see that each one is not a commodity but a someone, a living, feeling, individual? Do you really want to pay for them to be killed? These pigs will go into this…
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“You Are Not Alone” ~ Poem by Aylam Orian
This heart-wrenching poem was written by Aylam Orian and has been presented at multiple National Animal Rights Day events to commemorate all the innocent animals who die at the hands of humans. The introduction below is adapted from that in a YouTube video of the 2015 NARD event in North America, for the 2022 event…
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Speech for National Animal Rights Day 2022
Below is the ‘call to action’ speech I wrote and presented for the National Animal Rights Day Event in Wellington 2022. I think when we talk about the oppression of animals, because it is so systematic and on such a huge scale that sometimes you begin to see just the numbers and you can start…
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Does Taste Justify Eating Animals?
Pleasure does not justify something when there is a victim. By choosing vegan, you can still enjoy delicious flavours and textures but just not at the expense of someone else’s suffering. WATCH DOMINION See for yourself the reality of animal agriculture in this shocking documentary. Using undercover footage, “Dominion” exposes the true horrors you are…
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Lamb to Slaughter
In this short story we experience the true horror of the abattoir through the eyes of a most innocent victim. This is a story about a lamb. She doesn’t have a name, but for the sake of this narrative lets call her Molly. Molly sits at the back of a cattle truck. She is tucked…
For Animals. 