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Humans are naturally kind and compassionate. Most of us would turn away from scenes of suffering or try to stop it if witnessed. If asked, most of us would say that we would never hurt another living being. We would never mutilate, confine, or kill.

Although we would never do it ourselves, and may even call ourselves an animal lover, we ask others to do it for us by the use of our money. Each time we pay for meat or dairy, we are in essence saying to those industries “please make this animal suffer.” Because meat and dairy come from a place of fear, misery, and pain of other living beings.

Instead we experience cognitive dissonance. Dairy comes in packages and cartons of happy cows while meat does not look the abused animal it once was. This makes it easier to pay for them without making the connection to the cruelty to another living being.

Humans are naturally compassionate. Let’s make the connection between our naturally compassionate instincts and what we pay for.

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