Tony Matthews VEGANPROUD
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Novelist and historian. Introverted recluse. Vegan for 43 years. Author of almost 40 books. Animal-rights advocate. #veganproud #SayNoToCorpseFood
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My new book:
'Softly Softly - Capturing Hitler's Spies -
🤓 Has just been released.🤓
Here is the video trailer. The book is available online and in bookshops, for example Amazon Australia, Booktopia, Big W. etc.
Anyone who likes true spy stories will love this.
Enjoy!!
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I am a vegan writer and I am using my fingers to fight for every single animal on Earth. Join me in our struggle to create a kinder, more compassionate world for all our precious animal friends. I promise to fight, fight, fight for animals and NEVER stop!
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Every year countless millions of male chicks are placed onto conveyor belts to fall into 'macerator' machines with industrial blades to be ground up while still alive.
Humans are the most brutal and callous form of life on Earth.
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A single glass panel separates freedom from captivity. The human on the outside looks in with curiosity. The non-human inside looks out with longing. No animal deserves life imprisonment. Freedom should be a universal right for all species.
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The human capacity for slaughtering our precious wildlife is prodigious. We have a cruel talent for dispensing death and destruction.
Imagine how much the world would progress if we turned our destructive agenda into one of non-aggression. We could change all this horror.
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These are calves after being transported by sea to Israel for 26 days. They are covered in faeces and some are blinded my ammonia fumes.
It's horrific scenes like this that demonstrate my resolve to fight for animal rights until the day I die.
Please stop eating animals.
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All our beloved animal friends are here to be looked after and loved. When we treat them like this, we should be ashamed, yet they will work doggedly until their hearts literally burst. Mine breaks when I see them being treated like this. Do my compassionate friends here agree?
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When humans eventually evolve and learn that all life forms on Earth - both human and non-human - are precious, and are to be respected and protected, we might finally have found a way of also respecting and protecting our planet.
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I'm a bear. I have intelligence and emotions. I love my cubs. I have a life. I want to live. So why are humans still legally allowed to hunt me just because they enjoy killing? I love my life. I have fun. Please don't shoot me. I've done no harm.
Peace and love to you.
Big Bear.
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There are only three things that should be tested on animals: freedom, compassion and love.
That's it!
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My profound love for elephants rebels against scenes like this. Elephants are the gentle giants of the world, yet they have been abused like this for thousands of years. You'd think that somehow humankind would finally learn to stop torturing and enslaving them in this way.
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Live sheep exports are among the worst forms of cruelty worldwide. Many countries such as Serbia and Australia are guilty of this.
In Australia, the Labor Party has promised to ban these hideous exports, so please, Australians, vote ethically and compassionately for the animals.
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Two strong men would be required to carry just one of these milk churns, and they would only be able to carry it for a short distance without rest.
This is brutal animal slavery at its worst.
Humans MUST STOP enslaving and torturing other species like this.
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These male chicks are about to be killed because they cannot produce eggs. They will either be gassed or shredded alive in a macerator.
Honestly, scenes like this make me ashamed to be human.
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I have found that we vegans usually become isolated from the rest of humanity because of our beliefs. Friends and family treat us differently once we become vegan. It's as if we have taken on alien form. But we ARE different. We have found profound compassion. And it's beautiful!
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Okay, I'm just a bear. I sleep for months, but every time I come out of my cave some idiot comes after me with a gun. I can't figure it. Don't you guys know that I'm great at seeding and fertilising your forests? I'm a furry environmentalist. Why murder me for that? Really!
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Humans seem to think that they have an unassailable right to torture and kill all other species. Hunting is a part of that misconception.
My passion is to drive home the fact that ALL life is precious, and when humans mindlessly kill like this, it betrays ALL humanity.
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A donkey being taken to market, probably for slaughter.
Sometimes I see images like this and wish I could somehow change the world and magically save all our precious animal friends from the endless suffering humans inflict upon them. I am proud to be a voice for the voiceless.
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I fight against animal injustice continually and this bleak photo epitomises the reason.
Live export calves arriving in Israel for slaughter.
How anyone, even brutal carnists, can treat animals like this is beyond me.
I am proudly vegan and will always fight such horrors.
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I've been bitten by a few spiders in my time, but I still love them. Spiders are nature's way of keeping insect numbers under control. They might look a bit scary, but please protect and save all spiders. I even save the poisonous ones because life - every life - is precious.
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The baby monkey in this undercover photo is about to be separated from the mother in what has been described as a 'deprivation experiment'.
Personally I'd like to deprive the experimenters of their liberty for a very long time.
Anyone agree with me?
Credit: Brian Gunn, IAAPEA
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Okay, I know that with everything else going on in the world right now, no one wants to know about spiders, but I'm begging you, please, do not kill them. Spiders are great for the environment and keep mosquitoes under control.
P.S. This guy is wearing Armani sunglasses.
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Humans appear to be sliding ever deeper into the cesspit of cruelty.
This turtle is about to be slaughtered. What kind of human treats beautiful and precious creatures like this?
Stop the world. I want to jump off now!
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We share this fragile world with countless species, many of which are also fragile. Be kind to all forms of life - every single one - from ants to elephants and everything in between, and that care will be rewarded when you least expect it.
All animals are precious beyond words.
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Every single vegan on this planet is my sincere friend and I welcome you into my heart with love and kindness. I cherish all vegans and animal protectionists for everything you are doing to assist, protect and speak loudly for the precious animals everywhere in need of our help.
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I have not consumed meat for 41 years. Being vegan is the quintessential form of living a life filled with love and compassion, and a gateway to peace. To harm no others, to refuse to bring horror, brutality and death to all species, is what I call: 'Discovering the Lifelight'.
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Yes, well, if you have to save a bear then this is definitely the way to do it.
Well done guys!
😀🙏😀🙏😀
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A tiny donkey loaded down with water stands in a stony landscape where even the sheep must struggle to survive. We humans appear to have a talent for creating bleak, dystopian environments for animals where life is unbearably insufferable?
Animals deserve much better than this.
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This photograph makes me feel physically sick. What we do to animals, how humans treat them with such disregard for their precious lives, is a dark stain on humanity that will endure for millennia, long after we are all gone to ashes, and a vegan world looks back in disgust.
The first time they see sunlight is on their way to the slaughterhouse.
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TINNED WILD BEAR MEAT!!!
Okay, I've had enough!! This is tinned wild bear meat on sale in Japan. I'm already sick of the Japanese' despicable penchant for murdering dolphins and whales, but this horror drives me to the very edges of true hostility.
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A mother rhino and her baby, killed for their horns. I'm not sure what kind of monsters would do this, but they are just the scum at one end of a long supply chain of creepy people who provide powdered horns to idiots who think the horns will cure erectile disfunction!
Evil!
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Fox hunting is a typical example that humans love to kill just for fun. There is no purpose to fox hunting other than the pleasure it gives to those who love the sight of blood and hope to torture and kill a defenceless animal.
That means unequivocally that fox hunting is evil.
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When you give a permanent home and love to an animal in need, you save two lives.
Yours is one of them.
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I love animals [that's no surprise to any of you] but I also love people who care for, love and respect all forms of animal life. This is a beautiful story and photograph.
Thank you Angie.💚
Compassion, respect and kindness... ❤
He released the swan that’s hooked to a net and momentarily held him in his arms and felt his heartbeat gradually calming, then the swan wrapped his neck to his.
How precious it is to feel the trust of an animal.
Credit : Born To Explore
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This is my Christmas promise to all non-humans, from elephants to ants and everything in between. For as long as I draw breath I will be here to give you voice, to fight for you, to protect and to love you. I will fight endlessly for your rights. I will NEVER stop.
This I vow.
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A TRUE HORROR STORY.
Male chicks being ground-up alive on the day they are born because they are regarded as being just waste-product.
Humans are endlessly proving that they are the capable of unimaginable horrors.
I am
#veganproud
and you can be too.
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Many of my followers on Twitter are introverts, and often reclusive vegans, like me.
I extend my hand of friendship, love and respect to all of you. Be strong and happy in your life choices knowing you are strengthening yourself through gentle compassion for all life forms.💚🙏💚
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The killing of a duck, known as 'Killing Me Softly': the duck is defeathered alive, beaten with a slat until blood flows, the neck is slit for bloodletting, then the bird is scorched over a fire to burn out the feathers. I ask you: are humans the most abhorrent species on Earth?
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I have a dreamwish that every vegan on Twitter follows every other vegan so that we can form this massive meatless army to rid the world of evil using the power of our collective words, imagination, love, friendship, perserverance and compassion.
A fighting force for Good.
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The world is a special place but I am conflicted with the majority of its human inhabitants who continue to believe that any species not human is a commodity to be used, brutalised, tortured, killed and eaten.
Why are most humans born so callous? Do they have zero feelings?
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Bullfighting is simply evil and a curse on the world created by cowards and sick people who get off on blood and suffering. It should be banned universally and those who practise it should be imprisoned for hideous animal cruelty.
Kick every bullfighter in the balls!
Le visage de la douleur, de la souffrance et de l'humiliation.
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I am convinced that many humans have a bottomless well of evil. I see it on their faces, in their eyes, or a quirk on their lips which gives it away. They are the people who do this to animals. The killings that are not thoughtless, but calculated. I see the darkness within them.
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This is a 'battery bear', farmed for bile across many Asian countries. Bile brings in about $2 billion per year. Countries allowing these practices should be sanctioned by Western nations, and those responsible placed into exactly the same cages and fed nothing but bear poo.
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We believe that justice and equal rights are important, yet it's fair to say that we can also blind ourselves to the plight of others. As humans, we constantly demand to be treated fairly, and although our non-human friends want exactly the same, we still chain and enslave them.
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We are humans and regard our freedom as an unalienable right.
Our animal friends also cherish their freedom.
So why do we steal that from them?
All animals must live free unless they cannot survive free.
Then we must love and care for them.
But this is neither love nor care.
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This year I celebrate 42 years as a vegan. I celebrate over four decades of peaceful living filled with joy and love for all creatures.
Vegans are evolved humans and Veganland is a truly beautiful place.
Thank you everyone for your many years of wonderful support.
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How can we hope to maintain our marine life when we decimate our turtle populations so callously. Turtle eggs should never be considered as being food. They are a precious element of nature and should be totally protected, not sold at markets like this.
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These male chicks are being ground up alive because they cannot lay eggs.
Humans are an abhorrent species without 'humanity'. We teach kindness and compassion to our children but hide scenes like this from them because they reveal the true horrors of brutish animal farming.
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Yes, I'm just a baby piglet and yes, as you can clearly see, I'm dead and this idiot is about to cut me into pieces. So, I have to ask: do you think I'm happy? Let me answer that for you: NO! I'm NOT. So maybe it's time you went vegan because this is [literally] my horror story.
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There is so much horror in the world right now that it's becoming difficult for me to tweet. Every day I see images of unimaginable terror being perpetrated against our beautiful animal friends - I'm ashamed to be human. We must work towards creating a better, kinder world.
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I'm a vegan recluse, animal rights advocate and total introvert so I guess my intergalactic genes are apparent.
Does anyone else feel as if they don't belong on this planet?
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When we torture, kill and incinerate sentient beings like this, we are not just being barbaric, we are also debasing ourselves as so-called intelligent, compassionate humans.
This takes us back to the Stoneage.
It's time we evolved out of the hell we have created for animals.
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Humans have a fascination with killing. It allows them to enjoy a glow of superiority in their ability to take a life without retribution. They [relatively] rarely kill humans because they fear retribution, but animals have little or no protection.
Stealing life is sick & evil.
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Okay, I know a lot of my vegan friends are going to puke now.
This is baby-mice wine. Upon birth, the mice are dropped into rice-wine while alive. They drown, of course, and the brew ferments. The wine is then drunk with all the boney little corpses.
I'm SO proud to be vegan!
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Pigs are among the most intelligent and trusting animals on Earth. These are about to die because most humans have a discorded penchant for eating the dead.
They are frightened right now. They can smell the brutal death that awaits them.
Please stop eating murdered corpses.
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One of my heroes was the mathematician Pythagoras who shunned meat, stating:
'As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lesser living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.'
He was 'Evolved'!
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This was a highly intelligent, [more intelligent than a dog] loving and fun-loving animal. Then the quintessential form of cruelty came along in the shape of humans and this was the result. We don't need to torture and kill animals like this. Violence against animals is sick.
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The human concept of the value of life is largely limited to the value of human life. When it comes to the value of non-human lives we use a sliding scale, and at the bottom of that scale are farmed animals. We need to balance our values to level the field.
ALL life is precious.
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We may not be humans but we are intelligent, loving, sentient beings. We have lives and families. We feel pain and sadness. We worry and get depressed. We struggle through life, just like humans.
But humans make our lives far worse. Please stop abusing us like this.
Please!
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A lifetime of slavery hauling huge loads of water through the streets. There can be little comfort or happiness in the life of this clearly overworked donkey.
Animals should never be slaves; they should be our friends and companions.
I weep as this beautiful donkey weeps.
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This world is more beautiful and fragile than we can ever know. All animal life is precious. Animals are our everything. They keep this planet beautiful and safe. Our environment depends on them. Please stop killing animals for any reason. They ALL deserve to live in peace.
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An Alcatraz for monkeys - only worse! Historically, animals have been used for experimentation for years, but what goes on behind the scenes is often kept secret.
Secrecy allows for even deeper abuse. No animals should be used in testing. We should be well beyond that by now.
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I love this tweet and photo. If the entire human population of Earth could relate to all animals as this child relates to this young deer, this would become a very special world in which to live.
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Wreathed Hornbills eat fruit, complete with seeds, and are wonderful distributors of seeds throughout the forests.
Hunters kill them for food, feathers or their guts which are used as 'medicine'. Every bird killed causes more destruction of our planet.
I DETEST ALL HUNTERS!!
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Open the doors. Let in the light. Allow people to hear the screams of dying animals, smell their blood, listen as they die. Let in the cameras. Let the world see that meat is not meat, it is death and horror, pain and suffering, and it's all kept in the darkness of deep deceit.
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Bears enslaved for gallbladder bile are sometimes rescued like this lucky guy, but the traffic in bears for all kinds of purposes continues. Bears can be dangerous but they are an integral part of our planet and vital to the well-being of our forests. They deserve protection.
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I can't tell you what I feel about people who kill beautiful ducks and geese [or any other animal] because I'd be banned to Twitter-Siberia. But you all know what I'm saying. Killing defenceless birds is the ultimate form of barbaric cowardice and I detest those responsible.
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When humans keep animals in these types of conditions, it demonstrates very clearly that the word 'humanity' is a complete misnomer. This is not humane. This is unbelievable horror. Activities like this will cause diseases that will eventually extinguish human life on Earth.
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Today I've seen images of horses being killed and hung to be butchered, and rabbits hanging from one leg waiting to have their throats cut for their fur and meat. I won't show you the photos, but I am howling at the moon in horror.
We must change our cruel. world.
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Boycott EVERYTHING Chinese until this hideous trade is stopped.
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I have to admit that Christmas makes me blue. I'm saddened because of all the animals that will now be killed needlessly, and also sad that animals like this kitten will be gifted and perhaps later abandoned or given up. Our animal friends bring us joy. Please never abandon them.
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Most humans are capable of telling right from wrong, good from bad. Yet we still support cruelty like this - not because we're are being deliberately cruel, but because we choose to ignore reality. This is reality. Please remember this image the next time you eat eggs or chicken.
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All animals have emotions such as joy and love. They have a sense of fun and can laugh. Rats, for example, 'chirp' at 50 kilohertz when tickled, which scientists believe is a form of laughter.
Being fully sentient, animal equality should be a universal right across ALL species.
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Swimming pools are lots of fun, but not for insects. If you see an insect struggling in a pool, please rescue it and give it another chance at life, and if you own a pool please install little platforms that insects can use to save themselves.
Your karma will smile. 😀🙏😀
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These fish had a life. To them it was really important. Like most life-forms, they enjoyed living. Then someone came along and stole their lives, extinguished them with no thought. And all for just a few mouthfuls of food.
Humans have a tragic disregard for the lives of others.
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The locks and chains we use to incarcerate and enslave other species are exactly the same chains that prevent us from realising that we are still living in the Dark Ages. Holding animals captive also prevents our souls from being free.
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Just putting the finishing touches to my next book about living an introverted vegan-reclusive life.
Question: Do you like animals more than humans?
Reply or dm please.
[Book title:
'Invisible - the Essential Guide for Aliens Stranded on Earth'].
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I love it when someone calls me a crazy vegan activist. [It happens a lot].
And yes, I Iike being crazy if it helps to prevent animals like this being tortured, killed and turned into cremated corpsefood.
I am proudly vegan and will give my voice to animals until the day I die.
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The beauty of wildlife gladdens my little Welsh vegan heart. I photographed these beauties on the garden fence. Enjoy!
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Only humans would sink this low, and this is not just a hideous lack of compassion - it's an atrocity.
We humans must begin to understand that the most basic form of our humanity - its quintessential element - is compassion.
And this ain't it!
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When you love somebody, don't hold back. Just tell them! [And that especially goes for all the beautiful animals you love, because they understand completely].
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Protecting those we love is a natural element of our lives. Non-human beings are also sentient beings. They love life, protect their young, and need food, care, comfort and warmth. So why do humans constantly deny them those rights?
Please love all species unconditionally.
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If humans could show this kind of concern and love for all animals in need, this world would be a special place. We can still learn compassion. Our teachers are the animals we continue to abuse, torture and kill. Learn to love from this beautiful example of sheer determination.
Be this monkey in our troubled world💕
Credit in the video
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This is a deer hunt for 'sportsmen'. My opinion is that no matter who you are, killing animals for fun is not sport, and those who kill them are not sportsmen.
All hunting is cruel and it is especially cruel when it's carried out for recreational purposes.
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Most humans haven't figured out that ALL life is precious, not just human lives. These animals want to live their full natural lives, but here they are, terrified, in an abattoir, minutes away from death. Humans have done that because most humans still live in the Dark Ages.
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I'm finding it really scary that we do this to millions of farm animals every day - gas them, decapitate them, strangle them. If we can do this, what other horrors are humans capable of? Clearly there is no limit because this is deemed to be acceptable.
And that's truly scary.
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This is just so adorable. If you love elephants [who doesn't?] watch this to bring massive joy to your day and note how the last elephant thanks the car driver for stopping while the herd passed.
Priceless!
😀🙏😀
After crossing the road she gives thanks !
A wonderful creatures ♥
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Most humans have a capacity for cruelty. To some it's active cruelty, up close; to others it's passive cruelty, distanced, not participating, but the cause if it.
Bullfighting is a sickening example of the human capacity to revel in violence without getting one's hands bloody.
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An elephant working in chains has no place in this modern world - or any world. Humans have to learn that we cannot go on treating our precious non-human friends as slaves.
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Generations come and generations go. Yet every generation of our wildlife continues to suffer and die because of human malevolence. We must find better ways to protect all wild creatures, and in particular prevent the malignant intent of those who hunt for pleasure or profit.
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Most humans are blindly callous. It doesn't matter to them that this was once an intelligent, sentient being capable of feeling love, anguish, fear, pain and horror.
Eating rotting corpses is singularly the epitome of cruelty and callousness.
Please stop eating the dead.
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All animals experience despair.
For non-human animals it's unrelenting, continuous, insufferable. They have no recourse. Their only road from birth is to follow a track to a brutal death that has been laid down for them by [in]humans.
Vegans are working to change this horror.
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When I see photographs like this my extremely low opinion of humans generally sinks even deeper into the abyss.
“I looked into their eyes & I realised the monster was me”
I am so sorry & I will spend the rest of my life making up for my pre-vegan existence.
#Vegan
#GoVegan
#AnimalAbuse
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I know it's difficult to ask the world to find real love for all our non-human animal friends who share this world with us.
So how do we reach into that human 'Heart of Darkness' to find real compassion, and end the brutal era of terror and tyranny over animals?
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BORN TO DIE
Crocodiles born in farms are destined to die just for fashion. Killed brutally in ways too horrible for me to describe, many are skinned while in the throes of dying.
Please think carefully before buying crocodile-skin fashion accessories. You are buying brutal death.
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Elephants are far too precious for humans to destroy them for their ivory or for any other reason. As we continue to wreak death and destruction on our animal friends, we also drift farther away from our own humanity.
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And this is what 'civilisation' looks like!
This has nothing to do with being civilised.
This is brutality.
This is barbarism.
This is horror.
Being vegan is like stepping into a kind and gentle future where people no longer eat the dead.
Why not join me in that future?
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Hunters terrorise animals and therefore, logically, animals regard hunters as terrorists. When hunters go after a sentient being with a gun, they have nothing in their hearts but the kind of darkness that will engulf them. Hunting is not fun or cool. It's pure unnecessary evil.
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Prison is prison, no matter what the species, and life behind bars for committing no crime is unconscionable.
When humans finally begin to treat all non-humans with love and real respect, all this will change. Sadly, humans still need to evolve significantly to get to that point.
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Apart from all my wonderful vegan friends here on Twitter, I am more at home and comfortable with this little furry person than with any humans. Animals have a special capacity to recognise empathy and affection. They are at peace with vegans because they sense no threat of harm.
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