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Compassionate Living
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Reality Check CONTENTS
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Reality checks dramatize the plight of animal victims and demonstrate the extreme cruelty that is commonplace today.
Most of this material is vivid and includes disturbing photographs. To make a significant difference for animals, we must educate ourselves and bear witness to this exploitation.
Animal liberation is the most difficult liberation struggle of all because speciesism [human discrimination on the basis of species] is primordial and universal. Speciesism is arguably the first of any form of domination or hierarchy and it has spread like a deadly virus throughout the entire planet and all of human history. The problem is not limited to Western culture or to the modern world, such that there is some significant utopian past or radical alternative to recover. The problem is the human species itself, which but for rare exceptions is violent, destructive, and imperialistic. Universally, humans have vested interests in exploiting animals and think they have a God-given right to do so. To change these attitudes is to change the very nerve center of human consciousness. That is our task — no more and no less. — Dr. Steven Best From an interview, Vegan Voice, Fall 2004
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