I think about animals lots of times every day. As I've mentioned before, I'm constantly being reminded of animal cruelty and how many people are contributing to it with the choices they make. It's a big problem for the animals (and those of us that care about them) that people are being thoughtlessly cruel to them all the time.
I wouldn't buy leather: period. I see people wearing all sorts of leather garments. I imagine them in the shoe stores. I suppose leather is a thing to them: a material. In the shoe store, they probably aren't thinking of it as the dead skin of a tortured, enslaved animal who had been innocent and peaceful. I suppose they aren't thinking that, if they purchase those leather shoes, they will be supporting violence against cows.
It's the same with meat. It's a thing: a food. I suppose those that purchase it aren't thinking it's the dead, tortured flesh of an innocent animal that suffered for the sake of the consumer's palate. I recently called animal cruelty, especially that which is highly-organized and institutionalized, "the worst conspiracy" in a post here. It really is. It's billions of people (currently-I shudder to think how many people over the course of human history have contributed to animal cruelty) getting together and essentially saying, "Sure, what we're doing to animals is horrible, and unnecessary, but, if you do it, and act like you're not doing anything wrong, then I will too."
I'm sickened by animal cruelty. It contributes to my depression, which is nothing compared to the suffering that thoughtlessly cruel people are supporting whenever they buy meat, leather, fur, etc.
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