There are so many powerful ideas to address here... But two stand out as interdependent, I think: _the right to know_ and _unity_.
The people have _the right to know_ what they are funding: the secrecy inherent in animal agriculture needs to be exposed to public scrutiny.
When what is hidden is revealed, the public can join us in our shared value of alleviating animal suffering. What is required on our part (for this _unity_ of purpose): to drop personal ego and put animals first. We need to lead by example in this: Wayne is showing us how.
Good luck to you on Thursday Wayne - I know you will gracefully accept any term of incarceration handed out to you, but I want you to be free and am hoping against hope that you will be released ❤️🌺
Everyone is thinking of you Wayne, disheartened. But as you said, "losing forward" . I hope that you will be released, if that doesn't happen, then this momentum will grow. I love you Wayne. Thank you for your sacrifice and pushing the movement forward, always 🙏
This was a brilliant analysis of the potential power of Wayne's conviction to stop cruelty in our food system, but only if we stop infighting.
While people like Wayne are in jail for helping animals, we must support them in any way possible. I got an annual subscription and if you can, please consider doing the same.
Brilliant observation of what success requires for the animals and the activists fighting for them. I so agree. Let's take the Ballot Initiative to every county. One by One. I love the fact that unlike prop 2, it's 100% enforceable by all citizens.
I fully share your observations and hopes, it is really necessary (even in Italy where I live and do volunteering + activism) that activists are united and kind to each other and towards the outside because both are powerful means to achieve great results. I really wish that on Thursday 30 November you will be released and freed but in any case you will be able to cope with even the most bitter and unjust event and you will come out of it even stronger. High peaks await you to climb and I'm sure you will reach them all!
Dearest Wayne ,As usual you come up with brilliant solutions for animal libration and compassionate movement . Your astonishing insights while sitting in jail prove so beautifully how suffering of animals is linked with war , violence and terrorism ravaging our earth. You are the best example and catalyst for transformation of human consciousness . Your ideas casts a bright and warm light on the precious web of life . Love and affection to you , also from all the animals you're fighting and sacrificing your life for. Can not wait for you to be free, even two more days is way TOO LONG !
I’m a bit confused Wayne. I read and commented on a recent post you wrote about how the owner of a farm testified on your behalf and that you were acquitted.
“To everyone’s shock, including me, I am acquitted by a jury a few days later.”
It appears I showed up late to the game. Is it that you are in jail now, today, facing another trial concerning animal welfare violations???
(From Wayne's team): Hi REW! There are several open rescue cases Wayne has been and remains a defendant in. The one you're referencing in the "Languages I Learned" post is from last year's Smithfield trial where he investigated the nation's largest pig factory farm in Utah. Today, Wayne is in jail for exposing factory farms in Northern California.
You can see a list of past and ongoing open rescue cases (some involving Wayne) at righttorescue.com.
Though an animal lover my entire life and on occasion have seen PETA commercials on TV and have followed mostly horse and small pet rescue organizations online, I am stymied about the vast numbers of all kinds of animals who are not protected by law or moralities. As was suggested by Wayne’s father when he was confronted by Wayne about seeing dogs in cages in the back of a restaurant in his home country, paraphrasing, “it’s just the way it is.”
As I suggested in my last comment to Wayne’s acquittal in Utah, with the billions of grocery stores and restaurants stock full of every kind of meat or seafood one could desire, it seems an untenable task to make legal challenges to protect all wildlife, even though most people and juries have a basic idea of the brutal nature of how the animals are raised and butchered.
Most of the farms today are vast compounds that are hidden away in some valley or desert. The average Joe has no clue about what goes on in glue factories or chicken processing plants. The rituals are completely foreign to those of us who buy our products already cut up and prepared and wrapped up in plastic. We didn’t see the little chic crack out of its shell and run to the comfort under its Mom’s wing. We didn’t see the horses rounded up by helicopters, herded to pens separating family members, then killed and sent to Mexico to become a steak on the plate.
Your cause is an honorable one, I truly believe, yet, as a consumer and living in a city which houses over three million hungry citizens, and which bans growing animals in our yards for food consumption, sadly, I can’t see much changing in how our food is grown and processed, ever.
I don’t know anyone who would willingly kill their dog or cat and then eat them. I do know most would shed a few tears at the heartbreaking way farm animals are kept in little metal cages, never to see sunlight, never to feel the soft brush of a human hand upon their face. Even these touching visual images though, have not been effective enough to capture the minds and hearts of the hungry.
It is a sad, sad, situation, and one I must admit, I contribute to.
(From Wayne’s team): Thank you for caring so much about animals! There’s a chart by Bloomberg that we’ve looked at on our team that gives me a lot of hope.
It shows that social change often happens very slowly and imperceptibly, leading people at any point in time to say “I’ll never see it in my lifetime.” Then an inflection point is reached, and change comes faster than people ever imagined.
With so much of animal agriculture relying on keeping the public in the dark, I’m hopeful that a courageous movement of people putting their freedom on the line to shine light on unconscionable violence will bring about change faster than many of us could have dreamed of.
Knowing that you all are working hard to change minds and hearts towards animal welfare rights, even willing to go sit in jail to make a stand, is more than admirable!
There are so many powerful ideas to address here... But two stand out as interdependent, I think: _the right to know_ and _unity_.
The people have _the right to know_ what they are funding: the secrecy inherent in animal agriculture needs to be exposed to public scrutiny.
When what is hidden is revealed, the public can join us in our shared value of alleviating animal suffering. What is required on our part (for this _unity_ of purpose): to drop personal ego and put animals first. We need to lead by example in this: Wayne is showing us how.
Good luck to you on Thursday Wayne - I know you will gracefully accept any term of incarceration handed out to you, but I want you to be free and am hoping against hope that you will be released ❤️🌺
Hoping for your release on November 30.
Everyone is thinking of you Wayne, disheartened. But as you said, "losing forward" . I hope that you will be released, if that doesn't happen, then this momentum will grow. I love you Wayne. Thank you for your sacrifice and pushing the movement forward, always 🙏
(From Wayne’s team): Great point. We have some exciting things coming up on the theme of losing forward. Stay tuned!
This was a brilliant analysis of the potential power of Wayne's conviction to stop cruelty in our food system, but only if we stop infighting.
While people like Wayne are in jail for helping animals, we must support them in any way possible. I got an annual subscription and if you can, please consider doing the same.
Much love,
From Canada eh
(From Wayne’s team): Thank you so much for subscribing and helping us boost this blog!
Brilliant observation of what success requires for the animals and the activists fighting for them. I so agree. Let's take the Ballot Initiative to every county. One by One. I love the fact that unlike prop 2, it's 100% enforceable by all citizens.
(From Wayne’s team): Yes! Historic changes start somewhere -- and we can start here!
I fully share your observations and hopes, it is really necessary (even in Italy where I live and do volunteering + activism) that activists are united and kind to each other and towards the outside because both are powerful means to achieve great results. I really wish that on Thursday 30 November you will be released and freed but in any case you will be able to cope with even the most bitter and unjust event and you will come out of it even stronger. High peaks await you to climb and I'm sure you will reach them all!
Dearest Wayne ,As usual you come up with brilliant solutions for animal libration and compassionate movement . Your astonishing insights while sitting in jail prove so beautifully how suffering of animals is linked with war , violence and terrorism ravaging our earth. You are the best example and catalyst for transformation of human consciousness . Your ideas casts a bright and warm light on the precious web of life . Love and affection to you , also from all the animals you're fighting and sacrificing your life for. Can not wait for you to be free, even two more days is way TOO LONG !
(From Wayne’s team): Thanks so much, Mina, for your support!
I’m a bit confused Wayne. I read and commented on a recent post you wrote about how the owner of a farm testified on your behalf and that you were acquitted.
“To everyone’s shock, including me, I am acquitted by a jury a few days later.”
It appears I showed up late to the game. Is it that you are in jail now, today, facing another trial concerning animal welfare violations???
(From Wayne's team): Hi REW! There are several open rescue cases Wayne has been and remains a defendant in. The one you're referencing in the "Languages I Learned" post is from last year's Smithfield trial where he investigated the nation's largest pig factory farm in Utah. Today, Wayne is in jail for exposing factory farms in Northern California.
You can see a list of past and ongoing open rescue cases (some involving Wayne) at righttorescue.com.
Thank you for offering the explanation!
Though an animal lover my entire life and on occasion have seen PETA commercials on TV and have followed mostly horse and small pet rescue organizations online, I am stymied about the vast numbers of all kinds of animals who are not protected by law or moralities. As was suggested by Wayne’s father when he was confronted by Wayne about seeing dogs in cages in the back of a restaurant in his home country, paraphrasing, “it’s just the way it is.”
As I suggested in my last comment to Wayne’s acquittal in Utah, with the billions of grocery stores and restaurants stock full of every kind of meat or seafood one could desire, it seems an untenable task to make legal challenges to protect all wildlife, even though most people and juries have a basic idea of the brutal nature of how the animals are raised and butchered.
Most of the farms today are vast compounds that are hidden away in some valley or desert. The average Joe has no clue about what goes on in glue factories or chicken processing plants. The rituals are completely foreign to those of us who buy our products already cut up and prepared and wrapped up in plastic. We didn’t see the little chic crack out of its shell and run to the comfort under its Mom’s wing. We didn’t see the horses rounded up by helicopters, herded to pens separating family members, then killed and sent to Mexico to become a steak on the plate.
Your cause is an honorable one, I truly believe, yet, as a consumer and living in a city which houses over three million hungry citizens, and which bans growing animals in our yards for food consumption, sadly, I can’t see much changing in how our food is grown and processed, ever.
I don’t know anyone who would willingly kill their dog or cat and then eat them. I do know most would shed a few tears at the heartbreaking way farm animals are kept in little metal cages, never to see sunlight, never to feel the soft brush of a human hand upon their face. Even these touching visual images though, have not been effective enough to capture the minds and hearts of the hungry.
It is a sad, sad, situation, and one I must admit, I contribute to.
(From Wayne’s team): Thank you for caring so much about animals! There’s a chart by Bloomberg that we’ve looked at on our team that gives me a lot of hope.
It shows that social change often happens very slowly and imperceptibly, leading people at any point in time to say “I’ll never see it in my lifetime.” Then an inflection point is reached, and change comes faster than people ever imagined.
With so much of animal agriculture relying on keeping the public in the dark, I’m hopeful that a courageous movement of people putting their freedom on the line to shine light on unconscionable violence will bring about change faster than many of us could have dreamed of.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-pace-of-social-change/
Knowing that you all are working hard to change minds and hearts towards animal welfare rights, even willing to go sit in jail to make a stand, is more than admirable!
To your point on how societies change:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0FJvUiP6ES/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
(From Wayne’s team): Thank you! Great video, shows how far we’ve come -- and can go!