they feel

animals are not just things that we can put in one place or another, according to our interests - animals actually have their own interests, which, by the way, are very similar to ours: the simple and straightforward interest in enjoying life, for example


behind a happy meal or any animal product we can find in the supermarket hides the suffering of someone who wanted to be free and, in return, we condemn him to death

behind a carton of milk hides the pain of a mother who wanted to spend more time with her child, to breastfeed him, and it was taken away from her to keep the food that nature created for him, not for us

from some we took away their freedom, from others we took away their life

from some we steal the honey, the eggs, the fur, the feathers, the skin, the legs, the wings, the horns, the tusks, the flesh, the entrails, the fluids

to others we subject them to strenuous labour or painful punishments

still others we simply destroy their habitat, expose them to the world that we have created for ourselves

and they have had to accept it all quietly because we don’t understand and don’t want to understand their voice

because they don’t matter and have never mattered

because the whims of the oppressor have always been more important than the suffering of the weak

because no one is going to come and claim it from us

they are absolutely defenceless before the insatiable voracity of the human being: that is why those of us who are able to see it cannot and must not be silent

in the face of such injustice, i repeat, we cannot and must not remain silent

let us raise our voice
until the last cage is empty!

let us raise our voice
until every animal is free from oppression!

let us raise our voice
until total animal liberation!