“It’s a Beautiful Day”

For whom?

For the millions and millions of hens living in battery cages or broiler sheds?
For the cows, pigs, and chickens getting their bodies mutilated without anesthesia?
For the cows standing on feedlots of mud and disease and manure, packed together as tightly as they possibly can?
For the animals getting anally electrocuted or their skulls crushed then being de-skinned while conscious and experiencing a painful, slow death for a fur coat?
For those having their feathers viciously and repeatedly ripped out for a soft Down pillow or bedspread?
For the mulesed or flystruck sheep that provide wool, and/or who are transported long distances in cruel confinement with no food or water?
For all the fish who will be suffocated to death?
For all the lobsters who will be fried or boiled alive though there is clear unflinching evidence that these beings can feel pain?
For the tigers, bears, elephants, whales, dolphins, and seals who were kidnapped, enslaved, and forced to perform inane tricks?
For the snakes, alligators, crocodiles that are brutally murdered for the sheer ‘like’ of their skin?
For those who will have their necks or legs broken today at the rodeo – those bulls and horses spurred into aggression they do not even possess?
For all the dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, hamsters, gerbils, ferrets, and other ‘disposable’ pets that will be euthanized today while uncaring people go buy MORE animals, many of whom will also end up homeless or being euthanized because they are ‘unwanted’?
For all the rats, mice, monkeys, dogs, cats, and other animals stuck in animal testing facilities so researchers can do more nonproductive science for no cure and ever-rising disease rates to keep the profits flowing?
For all the lizards, snakes, turtles, spiders, fish, etc., that are banished to a life in a glass bowl?
For all the wildlife choking to death on our plastic refuse all over the world, or being ruthlessly culled to protect FARM animals?
For the approximately 925 million people starving people in the world?
For all the cold, homeless and forgotten beings, both human and animal?
For the rainforest - of which approximately 20 acres is cut down or clear-burned each day? (mostly because of our thirst for animal products/meat)
For our waterways and the aquatic life (frogs, toads, fish, etc.) that the manure lagoon are leaking into and turning it into a giant ecological toilet?
For all the beautiful, docile animals who possess a will to live and be free - just like you like you and I - standing terrified, waiting in line for their brutal death as they hear the screams and terror of others being slaughtered?

It is only a beautiful day for some. If you are having “a beautiful day” then you are very lucky indeed.

Your everyday choices matter a GREAT DEAL to those who are not so lucky - every day, every choice...IT MATTERS. You affect someone with every single choice you make, no matter how small.

I sincerely wish for every being on Earth to have a beautiful day - filled with love and compassion for all