repost from @nomyourself ❤ Painting by Jackson Thilenius. If you think your pain is completely different than animals (not even comparable in a way), think again! If you think the war we have between humans today has nothing to do with billions of animals being slaughtered every year, well think again too! Consciousness is a shared experience, not just for humans but for every living beings on this earth. If we don't change the way we see them, change their story from prison like captive life to slaughterhouses, then that means we don't care about our own suffering too. What you eat has a major effect on how you think in my opinion. If you keep eating an animal suffered, and stressed its whole life and prisoned until it's a dead food on your plate, then one way or another, you will feel sick too. You just won't be conscious enough to know why! I can't expect everyone to go plant based but we can definitely be more conscious about what we eat and how my food choices affect our environment, our kids, other human beings. If it's not for animal cruelty, it could be for health; if it's not for health, it could be environment; if that's not enough reason for you to eat less meat, then you don't care about future. Plants are future. Whether you get on board or not.