I originally sat down and wrote a blog post about Animal Liberation V’s Vegan Education from a neutral perspective, to give the reader an opportunity to make up their own mind. Except, by the time that I had finished it neither position came out a clear winner to me. I had managed to make a pretty convincing argument for both sides.
As I was sitting at a train station going over what I had written making the odd correction here and there, a fully laden cattle train rolled on by, heading for the Dinmore slaughterhouse.
Looking at all the sad and confused faces on the cattle that went by, and whilst we humans may think that they have no idea where they are going, you can see it in their eyes. They know that where they are going, can’t be a good place. They were wet and probably cold because today was a wet and cold day in Brisbane, and there is no shelter from anything once they are loaded on to the cattle wagon.
It was a depressing and emotional thing to see the first wagon full of sentient beings looking out at you as they went past. They are looking for someone that can explain to them what they did that was so wrong to deserve being treated like this.
Then the second wagon rolls by and all the eyes looking out at you between the horizontal bars have that look, that for those of us that have an affinity for animals is just too painful to bear, and it just reaches down into your soul. The eyes were the same on the third, then the forth and every other wagon after that.