A close up photo of the face of a young pig individual looking through the metal bars of the tiny cage where they are cruelly imprisoned in a darkened farm building.

A caring person, someone who upholds a minimum level of moral decency does not inflict harm upon the vulnerable. If we possess the slightest semblance of ethical integrity, we will not look for excuses to murder sentient individuals for our own nonessential purposes.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A close up photo of the head of young cow individual with a plastic number tag pierced into their ear. They are tethered by a rope around their head and mouth to hold them still whilst a farm worker burns away their horns.

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Using euphemisms like “humane” or “high welfare” to describe the practices of industries replete with violence, mutilation, incarceration, sexual violation & killing, reveals a society pathetically reliant upon utter deceit to placate its troubled conscience.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A young pig individual, covered in blood, cowers on the blood stained floor of a slaughterhouse as a worker stands over him wielding a knife.

Just because you don’t hear our screams, doesn’t mean they don’t continuously resonate around the blood drenched walls of the slaughterhouse. Our screams are a rupture your despotic human supremacist ideology that denies us our inviolable rights & our lives.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A still conscious, wide eyed, week old male calf on the blood stained kill table in an Australian slaughterhouse is being gripped about the head by the blue gloved hands of a worker who is about to slash his throat.

There’s something pathologically wrong with a society that constructs itself upon the basis of systematic mass violent exploitation & killing. There’s something deeply troubling about a society that doesn’t recognise, let alone acknowledge its own base iniquity.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A still conscious young cow individual who has been strung upside down by a back leg in an Australian slaughterhouse is being knifed in the skull by a worker who will then slash the cow’s throat. The floor below is spattered with blood. A second worker pauses from dismembering another cow to watch.

What you do to us, the violence inflicted upon us, what happens to us in the slaughterhouse, the fact that you fail to care, that you prioritise your own needless desire for self gratification is a mirror reflecting the true measure of your moral character.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A close up photo of the head of a distressed young sheep individual biting on the metal bars of the side of the slaughterhouse truck where they are incarcerated with countless others.

Justice, equality & fairness are more than mere ideas; they are a practice. We practice them by treating others, including nonhuman sentient individuals with full, symmetrical moral consideration & compassion.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A close up photo of the eye of a young pig individual in a slaughterhouse truck.

We buy into the myth of significant differences between humans & nonhumans because acknowledgement of the irrefutable morally significant similarities will force us to face the irreconcilable gulf between our stated ethical values & our obscene, violent actions.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A young, distressed, wide eyed male calf who has been cruelly removed from his mother and placed in a tiny hutch, looks through the metal bars of his prison.

Privilege is an extension of power. Only through the abnegation of ethical responsibility may we accept the privilege of being beneficiaries of unjustified violence. Only through unthinking societal collusion can such cruel injustice persist with impunity.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A wide eyed, still conscious, week old male calf on the blood stained kill table in an Australian slaughterhouse is being grabbed by a back leg by a worker who is about to slit his throat.

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Violence is intrinsic to any form of exploitation of fellow animals. Given that the end products of this violence are nonessential, that they are merely for our pleasure or convenience, this violence is by default indefensible.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A wide eyed, terrified young male calf who has been bundled upside down into a stunning chamber in an Australian slaughterhouse is about to be electrocuted.

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Basic Ethics for Beginners.

Inflicting violence upon vulnerable individuals for non essential purposes, is irrefutably, categorically unjustifiable.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A still conscious, wide eyed, week old male calf on the blood stained kill table in an Australian slaughterhouse is being grabbed by a back leg by a worker who is about to slit his throat.

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Violence is intrinsic to any form of exploitation of fellow animals. Given that the end products of this violence are nonessential, that they are merely for our pleasure or convenience, this violence is by default indefensible.

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @PolAnimalClass

Countless young pig individuals who have been forced into a narrow corridor in a filthy slaughterhouse are being led to their deaths. A slaughterhouse worker on the left outside of the aisle is using an electric prod to keep them moving forward.

That we could even imagine, let alone enact on an unfathomable scale, the domination, subjugation, violent exploitation & systemised mass murder of other sentient creatures for our nonessential purposes is nothing more than an expression of our wretchedness .

We are #OneBillionScreams

A close up photo of the face of a young pig individual who has been forced into a crowded slaughterhouse truck. Their face bears many scars.

For you it’s merely pleasure, convenience or entertainment. Just business as usual.
For us victims it is always violence, pain, abject suffering & brutal deaths.
You focus solely on the end products so you may ignore us & not have to face your own cold hearted iniquity

We are #OneBillionScreams

A newborn piglet shrieks in agony as a farm worker grips them tightly with one hand and uses a pair of pliers to clip away their teeth.

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All your acts of kindness, all your choices to treat fellow humans with empathy & compassion can never excuse denying those very same things to us fellow animal individuals. You remain accountable for the cruel, eternal, systematic violence inflicted upon us.

We are #OneBillionScreams

Our kin are murdered in front of us, and we stare at their remains in horror. You could have easily been born as us.

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A close up photo of the face of a young pig individual lying in their own blood on the concrete floor of the tiny, metal barred cage where they are imprisoned.

It’s astounding how many people think that their self-serving opinion upon needless, wanton violence is more important or even relevant than the perspective of us victims of violence. I guess it’s piss easy to rationalise violence if it’s not happening to you, eh?

We are #OneBillionScreams

The body of a dead young chicken individual lies on the excrement and urine strewn floor of a darkened farm building. They are missing at least half of their feathers. In the background are countless other young chicken individuals, also missing feathers.

Upon your plate is the butchered flesh of a once conscious, feeling individual who was cruelly abused & killed at a fraction of their potential age, but you mystify & represses that knowledge & relegate it to bullshit parables of fictional, idyllic pastoral scenes.

We are #OneBillionScreams

Row upon row, we live in this field of sequestered prisons. You may scoff at this term, but that only reflects how your standard, bureaucratic language anesthetizes you to our reality.

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A farm worker standing in the corridor between rows of female pigs, each cruelly imprisoned in a farrowing cage, swings a newborn piglet by their back legs to smash their skull on the concrete floor.

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Mass societal collusion in unjustifiable violence results in anger being directed at those who conversely uphold a fundamental moral baseline, hence the lash back towards vegans. Uncomfortable with their collusion in cruelty, people shoot the messenger.

We are #OneBillionScreams

Three murdered newborn piglets lie in their own blood on the metal grate floor of a farm next to their helpless mother who is cruelly incarcerated behind the metal bars of a farrowing crate.

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Because we shift the consuming of animal derived products from the comfort of an unexamined social norm to the uncomfortable reality of a needless choice, so unwilling to face their own complicity in violent abuse, people misdirect anger at us.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A close up photo of the face of a young cow individual who has had their head forced through vertical metal bars. Their nose is tethered to pull their head up whilst a farmer burns away their horns.

It is only due to unquestioning, bootlicking subservience to deeply conditioned violent social norms that you look at us askance & act affronted when we invite you to regard that needless violence from the only significant perspective; that of the victims.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A newborn male piglet being held tightly upside down around the legs by the gloved hands of a farm worker screams in agony as a second worker uses a metal tool to castrate him.

Humans invented humanitarianism to avoid facing how cold heartedly cruel they are. They clothe themselves in the garments of compassion to conceal their moral bankruptcy. They pervert the meaning of words so they don’t vomit when facing their own reflected image in the mirror.

#OneBillionScreams

A still conscious young cow individual who has been strung upside down by a back leg in a slaughterhouse writhes in agony after having had their throat slashed by a slaughterhouse worker (just visible in the background). Blood is gushing from the cow’s throat.hl

One might hope that the revelation that one has been duped into participating in extreme, needless violence might induce moral outrage, but no, perversely, in most it provokes infantile doubling down & defence of the gross excesses of human brutality.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A close up photo of the face of a young pig individual looks out through the bars of a slaughterhouse truck.

Claiming to abhor cruelty to animals whilst paying for 100s of billions of us to be force bred into short lives of violent exploitation before a brutal death in order to consume the end products of our abuse reveals an astounding level of stupidity & blatant hypocrisy.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A young female cow with her lowered head between the metal bars of the enclosure where she is imprisoned bellows in pain and anguish after being kicked by a dairy farm worker.

We are not voiceless. We speak, we scream, we give very clear indications of our wishes & interests. You just prefer not to hear us or ignore us because you are the reason for our pain, anguish & suffering. We are political animals. We will be heard.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A close up photo of the face of a young cow individual looking through the metal bars of the enclosure where he is incarcerated.

Refusing to view other animals as commodities & refusing to participate in their systematic violent exploitation are political acts. Not doing so is obsequious compliance with imposed tyranny. It’s bowing down to neoliberal capitalism & the politics of fascism.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A young black and white, wide eyed calf pulls hard at the tether that chains him to his tiny plastic hutch on an industrial dairy farm. In the background is a row of several other white hutches.

Resistance is what keeps us attached to life, to our desire to live according to our own will & pursue our own wishes & interests. It’s saying “NO” to the life that’s imposed upon us. We shouldn’t have to fight for our birthright, but we do. We’re political animals.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A close up photo of the face of a young pig individual screaming as he tries to free himself from his prison on a farm.

We are not objects for your commodification, utility, convenience, consumption or entertainment. Just like you, we are subjects with agency, interests & agendas who resist being controlled, owned, governed & exploited. Fuck your tyrannical, imposed human order.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A young cow individual in the knock box in an Australian slaughterhouse falls to his knees after receiving a bolt to his head. The floor is awash with spilled blood.

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. . were wrong, so conditioned into passive conformity, that we’d rather succumb to pathetic excuses & flawed, infantile rationalisations rather than reflect upon & modify our behaviour? We’d rather be cold heartedly cruel?

We are #OneBillionScreams

A close up photo of the face of a young pig individual chewing at the metal bars of the tiny cage where they are cruelly imprisoned in a darkened farm building.

In cold hearted malice, you demand my confinement, violent exploitation, mutilation & ultimate brutal death at a fraction of my potential age, not out of any need, not out of moral justification, but because you can do so without consequence, because you can get away with it.

#OneBillionScreams