No matter how slimy, how scaly, how smelly, or even how scary, animals’ lives now matter to us. Why?
Why do we care about other animals? Why do we care about beings whose lives are seemingly so removed from ours?
These are questions that I have been trying to answer over the past twenty-five years, ever since I first added my voice to countless others who stood up against cruelty to animals. I added my voice when I was a teenager because I questioned the ethics of how we use animals as tools for experiments and toys for entertainment. But as I grew older, I started to realize that our lives are more intertwined with those of animals than we ever thought possible.
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