I am also one who doesn’t “need” the graphic photos and never needed them. When I heard about some of the atrocities, then educated myself by reading more, it was enough to make me vegan. The knowledge alone already was enough to give me nightmares, but the graphics do nothing but make me feel hatred against my own species and to make me feel so helpless and sometimes so depressed that I’m on the verge of suicide. That doesn’t help anybody, least of all the animals! I absolutely need that heavy insulation, too, to be able to continue to function and hopefully make a difference.

And as you said, if you share a lot of gruesome photos, you’re likely to be hidden or even unfriended. I had to hide several of my vegan friends, too. Would like to keep in touch with them, but can’t bear the graphics. Some of them won’t get the point though. They call you a coward, because you only have to see, while the animals have to endure it. This is true, but I absolutely need to stay functional so that I can try and work for the change. And if this requires protecting myself from these photos, then I have to block these friends.

So Thank You for this post. I am going to share it. Thanks!

I got into sharing when the picture of a dog was pleading for its life at the window of the gas chamber – I’m crying as I’m typing this – yes it is engraved in my heart and gut wrenches me to even think about it. But I needed to see that picture because it woke me to the fact that a practice I thought long gone was still being practiced in more states than not.

i share all the pups that need homes because maybe, just maybe, someone’s heart will be touched enough to snatch that one from death. I finally had the opportunity to do that from a posting – not getting the dog I thought was to come home but one that has enriched the other dogs and us humans alike.

I never will share a picture for shock, only as a call to action. I feel your heart, and your tears. There are days my face is a river and my heart and soul are tore to pieces. There are practices all over the world including our ‘civilized culture’ that put animals through horrific practices to put the meat on our table and scraped sometimes off into the garbage.

i know there are people against hunting and I was once but after seeing bloated carcasses lining a road after a moratorium for only two years on hunting deer in upstate New York, I have changed my mind. However, I deplore the unconscionable slaughter of all the wildlife around the globe and man’s greedy need for expansion at the cost of displacement and/or death of the lives we are to care for and cherish.

After sitting, writing this in reply, while crying buckets of tears, I am going to use this as a blog post after adding more. Thank you for opening this door, one needing to be entered.