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Most animal suffering never makes the news. When there is a flood, an earthquake, or a wildfire, we read about the people who were hurt. We almost never hear about the animals. How many were injured or lost their home. How many died. It is as if they do not exist.<\/p>\n
The danger of leaving animals out of our daily news is that we slowly create a world where people forget we share this planet with them. And when people forget, they stop caring.<\/p>\n
We already see this happening in the way animals are treated in our food systems, how they are used in scientific testing, and how they are kept in cages for human entertainment. More recently, we see it in the growing number of people sharing videos on social media while hurting animals, as if their lives mean nothing.<\/p>\n
Animals need people to keep them in the news. That is why I started The Animal Reader. If you believe animals deserve a place in our daily news, please consider supporting this work.<\/p>\n
Thank you,
Prya Bisambhar<\/a><\/p>\n