Today, we marched for a slaughter-free St. Louis!

✊💚🐮 Thank you to the seven superb activists who joined us for our third annual March to Close All Slaughterhouses!

Together, we reached hundreds of passersby, championed a plant-based food system free from the atrocities of the abattoir, and built momentum for a slaughter-free St. Louis.

Slaughterhouses are indeed a strategic weak point for the animal abuse industry: the public already widely recognizes their cruelty, and support for phasing them out is growing.

By targeting slaughterhouses, we threaten the entire system of animal abuse. We weaken the economies of scale central to its success, making animal agriculture increasingly unprofitable and untenable as a business model.

But perhaps most importantly, we highlight the foundational cruelty of animal agriculture: the needless killing of innocents that drives animal commodification and consumption. The reality becomes inescapable; consumers can no longer deny the cruelty inherent to a system founded upon systemic violence.

And if we convince consumers that all slaughter is fundamentally unjustified, that slaughterhouses are moral abominations that must be ended through individual action paired with vigorous legal intervention, we can grind the system to a halt, ending the violent institution of the abattoir forever. And it all begins by spotlighting the undeniable violence, cruelty, and overall depravity inherent to the slaughterhouse model.

By opposing slaughterhouses, we therefore strike at the most foundational roots of animal oppression, challenging assumptions about human supremacy and demanding we properly value—and diligently protect—animal lives.