Screaming Animals Book Gift for Gina Rinehart
As the ink dries on Gina Rinehart’s purchase of yet another farm property in New South Wales, PETA has sent the to beef and mining magnate an unusual gift, a “children’s book for adults” entitled The Secret Lives of Animals.
Drawn in soft pastels and written in prose, the book features the sounds of real animal screams and nursery rhymes describing the horrors that animals endure in the meat, egg and dairy industries.
Judging by her past comments implying that animals can be “happy” in the agriculture sector, Rinehart seems wedded to a naïve, almost childlike view of how animals live on farms. We hope this book will educate her and that she will choose her to invest her wealth in humane, sustainable vegan projects instead.
Every animal is a complex individual, and no system designed to breed, fatten and slaughter them can ever accommodate their unique personalities and preferences. Cows have best friends, pigs recognise their names, sheep wag their tails when they’re happy, while chickens and fish in nature live in large social groups with complex hierarchies.
Regardless of any “high welfare claims” made about the final product, animals suffer immensely when exploited for food. Every year in Australia, hundreds of thousands of animals languish on filthy factory farms, where they’re subjected to extreme crowding and routine mutilations without pain relief. Like us, they feel fear and pain, but, at a fraction of their lifespan, farmed animals endure a terrifying trip to a slaughterhouse, and a violent, agonising death.
No matter the mental gymnastics employed to justify farming them, animals suffer immensely when they’re used for food or clothing. We hope this gift inspires Rinehart to start a kinder chapter.
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