Why Eating Animals Means Blood Is on Your Hands

We know COVID-19 is a result of humans’ practice of eating animals, as is SARS, swine flu, Ebola, and even HIV. Research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that more than 75% of emerging diseases originate in animals. When will we learn our lesson?

This is a scary time for humans. People feel alone, upset, and afraid. But animals used for food face those same feelings every day—crying out from cages, watching as their families are slaughtered in front of them, and kicking and screaming on the kill floor. The reason humans think they can abuse and kill animals is speciesism—and we must end this discrimination if we want to live.

This little piglet only ever knew pain and suffering, all for the pork industry.

The piglet’s tail was likely cut off without pain relief within days of birth, and castration without pain relief is standard practice in the pork industry, too.

Animal agriculture is destroying the planet through deforestation, loss of species, water pollution, greenhouse gases, climate change, and wildfires while wasting massive amounts of fresh water and land. Speciesism is killing humans, other animals, and the planet.

It’s on us to end human supremacy now in order to save the world.

We can’t let social distancing stop us from sounding the alarm. SOS! Blood is on humans’ hands in more ways than one, and we can only wash it off if we check our privilege and stop exploiting animals.

Join our Students Opposing Speciesism (SOS) movement and demand an end to speciesism by sharing the startling truth with everyone you know—and get your SOS hub members to be loud, too!

Let everyone know that blood is on humans’ hands:

1. Using commercial fake blood, food dye, or marker, cover your hands with “blood.”
2. Take a selfie or short video and share it far and wide.

3. Be sure to use the SOS emoji ?and the hashtag #EndSpeciesism. Explain to others that animals aren’t ours to use—they’re individuals just like us. Their flesh isn’t ours to eat. Their bodies aren’t ours to forcibly inseminate. Their babies aren’t ours to mutilate and kidnap. Eating animals is killing us, and it’s time to acknowledge this and end speciesism before it’s too late.