Currently, my retirement options are a) homelessness and b) suicide. I have over $23,000 in credit card debt. I should be like the average human. I should care much, much more about money than animals. But I can't. I just can't. I care more about animals than money every second of every day.
I was watching a movie that I like the other day called The Boost, which is about drug addiction. James Woods buys an expensive car, and a dog, for his wife (Sean Young). I'm relying on my memory, but he essentially said, "A $50,000 car and a $2 mutt-go figure." That line saddened me immediately and deeply, because, in our society and world, it's true. I don't agree with that. I truly believe the life of one mouse is worth more than all the money in the world. Animals are flesh and blood; money is paper and metal.
But, in our society, money is worth more than life. That's one of humankind's contributions to this world. It can safely be said that, in our society, all these items are worth more than the lives of countless animals: smartphones, cars, houses, clothes, shoes, hoverboards, bikes, motorcycles, coffeemakers, toasters, furniture, cutlery, guns, bombs (including nuclear and hydrogen, of course), missiles, chemical and biological weapons, tanks, aircraft carriers, battleships, destroyers, submarines, computers, microwave ovens, stoves, furnaces, real estate, parking lots and garages, refrigerators, radios, stereos, TVs, watches, alcohol, drugs, alarm clocks, and so on. I could go on and on, but the sad truth is that almost EVERYTHING is worth more to meat eaters than the lives of the animals they eat. Actions speak louder than words.
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