Reddit reviews Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries

Sounds like your head and your heart just have a bit of a disagreement then, I understand. It’s so hard to hear how damaging the meat and dairy industry is to animals. The best thing to do is simply not to contribute to it.

Do you buy meat?

Animals are killed long before their natural life expectancy. The flesh inside their bodies would not be optimal for a meat eaters idea of a nice meal if they were killed at their actual life expectancy age.

Regardless, even if an animal died happily, in no pain, at a ripe old age or let’s say somehow humane slaughter has been invented (even though this is literally an oxymoron and impossible)...it still wouldn’t mean that we have the right to take an animals flesh. They are individuals, not commodities.

Some people find that tricky to get their heads around, if they don’t truly love animals. That’s a vegan’s stance.

But there are plenty other great reasons to stop eating meat, like the fact that animal agriculture is the result of nearly 90% of deforestation of the Amazon. Or that nearly half the plastic waste in the oceans is from discarded fishing nets etc.

Or the health reasons might be more your thing, if animal rights aren’t. Lots of great reasons 🙏🏻

Edit: ps, you might like this book - the animals are treated as proper individuals and not exploited for what we can take from them, it’s really lovely.