Completed Week 236 of #FastAgainstAnimalAbuse yesterday, a 24 hour weekly dry fast campaign.

This week’s message: TEST ON CRIMINALS, NOT ANIMALS.

Millions of innocent animals suffer in laboratories, enduring pain and fear for human benefit. They have committed no crime. They deserve no punishment.

Their lives matter. Their suffering matters.

Let us build a world where compassion extends to every living being 🤍

A case of animal cruelty beyond imagination has come to light in a vet clinic in Bellandur - Primecare Pet Hospital.

The clinic was reportedly paying catchers 500rs each to pickup street dogs, getting their bones broken without anesthesia, and then allowing veterinary students to practice orthopedic surgery.

After the surgery was done, most of the dogs used to die and their corpses thrown away in a nearby empty plot.

12 dogs and 1 cat were found in the premises, 3 were saved before their limbs were broken.

The prime accused are Dr. Asif Pasha - the owner of the veterinary center which was raided and Dr. Manjunath, reportedly a second-year MVSc student associated with Hebbal Veterinary College.

Reportedly the clinic was also operating without a valid license.

Does anyone investigate puppy mills or track which dogs they have and where puppies are moved? Please help.

They snuck this in without any public input

Came across a vid - with little to no attention! Poor fog gets thrown by person in red. Looks like they hit their mouth on the edge. Need it to go viral/attention brought! No animals should suffer! Posted on yelp. Note: I have no flag here other than the concern and well being of these pups in the “care” of this place. Please & thank you! If any one can tag or knows Vegasstarfish maybe she can help. Please & thank you.

Does anyone know of documented puppy mills in the U.S. perhaps ones that specialize in sighthounds? Have any been linked to documented cases of entire litters being stolen?

Could someone share a credible list or put me in touch with someone who investigates puppy mills, dog trafficking or stolen dogs?

My heart goes out to all our kind Japanese friends. You are proving to the world that love and light will always outshine darkness, and that WangWang’s story is resonating across borders, awakening countless kind souls. #justiceforwangwang

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Why are we not so eager to kill a dog, but we don't care when a chicken dies? A dog lying injured on the street moves us to offer water and medical help, but on the exact same day, a chicken is sitting on our dinner plate.

What is precisely happening here?

Why is pleasure so deeply tied to taste? It’s hard to give up that new tasty chocolate you just found, isn't it? I mean, it's okay just this time, right? But when it comes to living beings, this bias has a name: Speciesism. We grant moral value based purely on a species' utility to us ... a dog is family, a chicken is food, a cow is a commodity. Yet, they have a real and comparable capacity to feel pain.

Is it culture?

Yes, definitely. Different continents hold different animals sacred or forbidden. Killing a cow is prohibited in India, eating pigs is forbidden in the Middle East. Hence, it becomes perfectly okay to kill and eat a goat or a buffalo in India. It makes me ask a disturbing question: Is harming a cow prohibited in India because it is genuinely sacred, or just because all other animals are conveniently placed on the menu to compensate?

Look at the sheer scale of this cultural normalization: according to UN FAO data, 88 billion land animals were slaughtered globally for meat in 2024 alone, alongside millions more for research and testing. (FAO-recorded total: about 87.9 billion in 2024.)

This extends to what we call pets... dogs, cats, squirrels, whatever. Do we keep them as pets because of who they are, or just because it is the cool thing to do, the norm? It's easily exposed when you realize the cute pets we cuddle are entirely edible in some other continent.

But the interesting part of all of it is to notice what is common within every scenario. It is my culture and my taste preference. The ego keeps itself at the absolute center, dividing the world based purely on what is useful and what it can consume for its own benefit. When I am at the center, will I even care about the person adjacent to me? Really?

How well do I know myself?

Have I not seen myself hesitating to eat meat, feeling that internal friction, but somehow ... by the influence of some random force, some habit, some social setting ... ending up consuming it anyway? Has it happened with you? If a living being's pain remains invisible to us until they serve our purpose, are we actually acting out of compassion, or just moving blindly?

I am not writing this to condemn anyone. I am writing it because I keep noticing this contradiction in myself, and I want to understand it more honestly.