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You’re not a bad person for eating meat. But continuing to do it when you know the suffering it causes, is not a positive behaviour. If you like to think of yourself as a good person, do good things; eating the limbs and flesh of innocents is not a good thing to do, it’s pretty evil really. Don’t ignore the reality of meat just so you can feed it to your child guilt free; engage with the reality you are ignoring, and choose something that doesn’t cause animal suffering. Your child will thank you later. Withholding the truth about what had to happen to make their ham sandwich isn’t a good thing. If you are a good person, stop supporting animal abuse. If you care about your child’s health, stop feeding them class 1 carcinogens. If you care about their future, stop destroying it through your meat purchases. You are a good person, now behave like a good person! 💙💙💙 by @johnm_35

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It is hard not to become emotional when the suffering to animals and damage to our world is so pervasive. Allow yourself to feel empathy, consider the animals perspective, and their pain is at the forefront of the mind. They are innocent, like your pet dog, like your child. Why would we turn a blind eye to their suffering? Despite the sadness, I recognise I need to be more compassionate to people who are not being compassionate to animals. Respecting someone’s choice not to respect animals and our planet is a skill I am still developing. Words can hurt, but we need to also recognise the real victims are losing their lives, not sleep. I hope those without compassion for animals can learn to be benevolent towards them too, as I learn to be more understanding. 💙 by @johnm_35

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I stand by being the voice for animals, I stand by what I say because not doing so would be advocating for animal suffering, and I’m not for that. Silently standing by is not neutral. So I won’t deny that I wish for a more compassionate world. Assuming that my sadness towards animals abuse translates to thinking people are bad, or not liking them is incorrect however. I don’t like the behaviours that cause suffering, but the people causing that suffering are not bad people, they are just entrenched in a society that values dissonance towards these issues, not awareness. It is hard not to become emotional when the suffering to animals and damage to our world is so pervasive. Allow yourself to feel empathy, consider the animals perspective, and their pain is at the forefront of the mind. They are innocent, like your pet dog, like your child. Why would we turn a blind eye to their suffering? Despite the sadness, I recognise I need to be more compassionate to people who are not being compassionate to animals. Respecting someone’s choice not to respect animals and our planet is a skill I am still developing. Words can hurt, but we need to also recognise the real victims are losing their lives, not sleep. I hope those without compassion for animals can learn to be benevolent towards them too, as I learn to be more understanding. 💙 by @johnm_35

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Not eating animals isn’t about extremism. It’s about empathy extended beyond convenience.

I can still love people deeply, acknowledge they are kind in many ways, and still refuse to collude with harm.

It’s not about trying to be superior. I’m trying to be honest in a world that prefers distance.
And honestly? That’s how change has always started. If you could still buy whale products at the super market, would you, just because you can, knowing what you know about whales? Or would this be something easier to say no to now that more of society is on board with protecting whales?
What about shark fins? Would you buy those at the shops if you could?
Or did not growing up with an attachment to eating them make it easier to choose compassion for these marine animals?
Do you see how your consumption of other beings’ flesh and secretions is no different? You are supporting suffering that you don’t need to, just because you’re used to it and nobody is questioning you, so you happily live in dissonance, ignoring the suffering you could easily stop supporting. You don’t like to know about it happening, you wouldn’t watch animals being killed each time you eat them, so don’t perpetuate their suffering. Do you think people should have not fought for women’s rights? Do you think people should have not fought for children’s rights? Gay rights? Do you think people should have stayed silent and been compassionate to people enslaving others ? Should we have avoided conflict by turning a blind eye to oppression? Or are you happy there were people fighting the oppressor for these victims? Why do you feel animal rights are so different? You would be proud of someone turning a blind eye to suffering? Or ashamed they ignored a chance to help someone in need?
Are you sad at the end of Chicken Run when the animals don’t get made into a pie? Do you cry when Nemo saves a school of fish from death in a net? Are you unhappy that Cruella couldn’t make her coat? Look inwards, if you aren’t on the side that we would all consider evil, why are you behaving like it every meal time? by @johnm_35

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Imagine yourself in a situation. Someone you love and care about is harming and causing suffering to something else you love and care about. It’s actually something they all love and care about but are not aware or choosing to ignore the harm and suffering they are supporting. What do you do in this scenario? Do you stay silent and let the victims continue to suffer? Do you try and get your loved ones to seek mercy? Do you try and share the reality of the situation with others so that hopefully we have a future with progressively less harm and suffering? Or do you stay silent like they ask you to, don’t make a fuss because they don’t want to hear about the suffering they support?
Staying silent eats me up inside. If I was a victim, I’d want someone to fight for my life. If you think you would do anything other than walk away and ignore someone’s puppy crying out, tangled in blackberry thorns, unable to escape, you can understand why I can’t ignore the suffering occurring to 80 billion land animals each year, and over 2 trillion marine organisms. We can’t ignore this, we can’t be complacent, we need to change for the sake of life on this special planet. Behaviours are the problem, not people. People are good, most of us don’t like animal suffering, that’s why we wouldn’t watch slaughterhouse footage before our steak. Don’t confuse this with hate for individuals, this is about pointing light on ignored consequences of our behaviours - something we can choose to change if we want to. And if you don’t ignore the issue, you will want to change. It’s a moral double-bind:
• Stay silent → protect relationships, but betray your values and the victims.

• Speak up → honour the victims and your conscience, but risk being seen as “difficult,” “too much,” or hurtful to people you love.

Silence is not neutral.
Silence doesn’t stop harm; it just makes it quieter for the people benefiting from it.
Behaviours are the problem, not people.
This is such an important distinction. Most people genuinely care about animals — the system relies on distance, language, and avoidance to keep that compassion from activating. Naming consequences isn’t cruelty; it’s honesty. by @johnm_35

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Hoping more people will choose compassion for animals isn’t about being “right” or morally superior.
It’s about grief.

Grief for animals whose suffering is normalised, hidden behind words like food, tradition, and celebration. Grief for violence that has to be looked away from so comfort can be maintained. Wanting honesty about where food comes from doesn’t come from hatred of people, it comes from care for beings who don’t get a voice.

Throughout history, every justice movement has been told the same thing: be quieter, be gentler, don’t disrupt. This was said about the abolition of slavery, women’s rights, civil rights, environmental protection, and it’s said now about animal liberation. Discomfort has always been the cost of moral progress.

It’s possible to hold two truths at once:
That hoping for a more compassionate world is not wrong, and that confronting people can still hurt. Impact matters as much as intent. But silence is not neutral when victims exist. Silence protects the status quo, and the status quo has casualties.

Words are not violence. Knives are.
Naming harm is not the same as causing it.

This kind of speaking doesn’t come from anger so much as from witnessing, from the pain of seeing preventable suffering treated as normal, even loving. There are no funerals for these lives, no permission to mourn them publicly, so the grief has to go somewhere.

If this makes you uncomfortable, I understand.
Discomfort is often where honesty begins.

This is not about shaming.
It’s about refusing to pretend there are no victims at the table. by @johnm_35

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Paul says that even if something is lawful, it isn’t always beneficial! and that sometimes we give things up not because they’re sinful, but because love calls us higher…

Choosing not to kill animals when I don’t need to feels like that kind of choice! It’s not law, but conscience.

I’m not asking you to change overnight or even agree with me.
I just want you to consider whether eating animals is something God allows, or something He desires, because those aren’t always the same thing.

And if one day you ever chose to eat less meat or none at all, that could actually be you leaning further into faith, not away from it!
Selectively breeding animals is seemingly blasphemous if they were created perfect. Deciding they don’t lay enough eggs or produce more milk than they need for their own baby; is that really our right? I do think we can be happier if we choose love over suffering. 💙💙💙 by @johnm_35

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The prophets paint a picture of God’s future kingdom, and it’s not one of killing.

Isaiah says the lion will lie with the lamb and no one will hurt or destroy in God’s holy kingdom.

If that’s where God is taking the world, I don’t think it’s crazy to ask whether Christians might be called to live toward that future now, where we reasonably can!

This isn’t to say you are sinning by eating meat!
It’s so say: if we have the option to cause less suffering, and it doesn’t conflict with God’s word, wouldn’t choosing mercy actually be more Christlike? 🤩💙💙💙 by @johnm_35

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When I look at Jesus, I don’t see someone who took the maximum allowance of what was permitted, I see someone who always moved toward mercy.

Jesus says, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.”
He says the greatest commandments are love, not just to God, but outwardly.

Proverbs says, “The righteous care for the needs of their animals.”

Animals are still God’s creation, and the Bible says “the earth is the Lord’s and everything in it.”

Nobody is forcing your hand, nobody is making you choose cruelty, except you. You have the power to reduce suffering, use it! 💙💙💙 by @johnm_35

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