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Tourist pleads guilty after throwing chicken named Betty White into an alligator pond (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca -2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

We are conditioned to ignore the sentience and right to exist of non-human animals. It makes capitalists more money for us to act like animals are morally equivalent to plants.

The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children. They are owed the exact same unconditional love and protection.