In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

You equate compassion to activism. This makes me laugh. Activism is telling people what they shouldn't do.

It might be, in some cases. Activism can have different motivations.

As we've explained, in our case, our activism is motivated by compassion, not control as several meat-eaters keep insisting. (Which I find a bit offensive, by the way. I don't like being told what my motivation is. Only I know that. That's why I don't tell others what their motivation is.)

Compassion is letting a dog out of its kennel to run around "free".

Activism is making a PUNISHABLE law that says the dog owner can never put his dog in a kennel.

See the fundamental difference?

Let's take it a step further. Forget about running free; that's a luxury anyway. What if the dog is chained outside in 110 degree weather, without food or water, and suffering and may die soon?

And we feel compassion for that dog, but we cannot help him because he is in our neighbor's yard. So the only way to act on our compassion is to try to convince the neighbor to give his dog some food and water.

What if the neighbor refuses, and then goes outside with a baseball bat and beats the dog?