And I'm Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks, which I founded to empower people to make informed

food choices and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. You can learn more about who we are and what we do

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Let's talk about the difference between the animals themselves and our perception of animals. To the animals,

to the animals, it's all the same, and it's all quite simple.

They want to live.

If they have wings, they want to fly.

If they have legs, they want to walk. If they have voices, they want to communicate. If they have

offspring, they want to mother them. To humans who perceive animals as inferior, their lives are here for us to end.

Their wings and legs are ours to eat, their voices are ours to silence or ignore,

and their reproductive cycles are ours to manipulate and use.

It's not the animals themselves,

but our perception of the animals that enables us to do all sorts of horrific

things to them.

As with any kind of prejudice, first you have to lower the societal status of the group or

individual before you can actually oppress them. And we do this with animals across the world. of the

status of the group or individual before you can actually oppress them.

In the language we use that denigrates them, calling people pigs,

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