Late last week, our Alistair who deals with the vivisection side of PETA (or should I say, anti-vivisection…) took the Animal Liberation Project out on the road, so I thought it a good enough excuse to shamelessly plug it on Fish & Chimps. If you’ve ever thought there was a connection between how the human race treats animals and how in the past we have treated human beings, you were right. And to prove it, PETA has an online – and ‘real life’ – exhibition called Animal Liberation Project which shows just how connected they really are through the use of photography.
The images are pretty shocking, comparing horrific acts like beheading, experimentation, forced labour, force-feeding and more. But never have I realised just how much the past is linked to the present, and how the way animals are treated should be confined to the history books forever. If it is shocking and saddening to think of what happened to slaves, war victims and children in the past, it should be no different to how we view the enslavement and abuse of animals today.
Read about it and view the exhibition online (narrated by none other than the totally cool rasta poet Benjamin Zephaniah). Peta2 US has got its own exciting version too, where you ‘walk around’ a museum, just like a school trip…
