In August 2019, I started attending vigils with The Animal Save Movement and New Wave Activism. The purpose is to bear witness (being present in the face of injustice and trying to help), offer the animals love and compassion, and document the horrific cruelty being inflicted upon them before they’re brought into the slaughterhouse.

The cows are often seen injured, crying from distress, covered in feces, drooling from the heat/ covered with icicles from the cold, and always without food and water.

Bearing witness is a life changing experience. It’s so easy to forget about the nonhuman victims of our food system, but bearing witness acknowledges them as individuals. They don’t deserve their shortened lives to be so full of suffering. They don’t deserve to be ignored. Come closer, bear witness, live vegan, and get active for the animals - they need us!