A beautiful piece of prose brought to my attention by Animalista Untamed:
Libby and Louie’s story is a remarkable true tale of profound love and devotion, as told by an equally remarkable human – Joanna Lucas, creator of the Be Fair Be Vegan social justice campaign responsible for the recent high-profile billboard display in Times Square & Javits Center NYC. As well as being a person of incredible vision, Joanna has a deeply empathetic insight into an animal’s heart and soul, which she beautifully reflects in her luminous writing.
It took extraordinary events – a shattering blow, like the loss of her right foot to the wire floor of the “cage-free” egg farm where she was rescued from, or a rapturous release, like her arrival at the sanctuary, or a seismic shift like Louie’s absence – to shake, charm, or punish a sound out of Libby. It’s not that her voice was frozen in fear, like so many of her fellow refugees…
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Thank you! I wish everyone would read this – they might start to acknowledge the true worth of nonhuman animals’ lives x
I agree! 🙂