However, as Williams points out, it was just as crazy an idea to give women rights so many years ago. Even African Americans were perceived as animals and they eventually earned rights. Perhaps, years after this is read people will wonder why it had taken so long to have animals treated fairly. Alice Walker linked the abuse of all species together when she said, The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
Many people choose the vegetarian life because of the cruelty of slaughtering innocent animals.
The inhumane treatment of these animals is shown below. Every year, more than seven billion animals are raised, transported, and slaughtered under grossly inhumane conditions. Animals are crammed into small crates, dragged to auctions with chains, and slaughtered while they are fully conscious. All of these practices are considered normal agricultural operation and have become business as usual in a system driven by profit. The food industry treats animal as commodities, not as living, feeling animals.