Welcome to Small Bite Sound Bites, a midweek segment of food for thought podcast where I,

your host, Colleen Patrick-Gudrow, share short, succinct, thoughtful responses to typical

questions, myths, and misconceptions related to plant-based eating, veganism, and animal

protection.

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Many people who say they don't care about farmed animals or domesticated animals or they

don't care about what happens to farmed animals who are bred and killed for meat-dairy

and eggs are people most likely who do care about wild animals who do care about wildlife.

What they may not know is that wild animals suffer immensely and die unnecessarily because

of our insatiable appetites for the flesh and fluids of domesticated animals of farmed

animals.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture led program, euphemistically called Wildlife Services,

spends millions of U.S. tax dollars to shoot, snare, or poison.

Over 1.5 million coyotes, wolves, bears, mountain lions, otters, foxes, birds, and thousands

of other animals at the behest of ranchers every year.

Let's over 200 wild animals killed per hour.

Even if we don't care about the suffering of cows, pigs, and chickens, we should know

that when we buy animal products, we're supporting the killing of wild animals.

Everything we buy has an impact on someone else.

The question we need to ask ourselves is do we want that impact to be negative or positive?

Those are only two choices.

There are no neutral actions.

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