Easter Eggs, Bunnies and Roast Lamb. Why do you kids play with cute bunnies and then eat lambs for dinner? How are we schooled into these thoughts and actions?

Empathic individuals and children are mocked for not being tough enough. But maybe these ‘sensitive kids’ are the ones who instinctively know we live in an lopsidedness. Science and study is proving time and again instinct may be more important than pure intellect. Education in a bubble is futile just as equality on paper is meaningless!

McGuire examines why young adults ‘mature’ into believing it is acceptable to treat farm animals differently from companion animals. The change seems to occur in adolescence. No matter what your views toward food are, what is fascinating is a fundamental change in human empathy. These lambs are ready for market and Easter dinner. To see them pre sale puts a face to our dinner and establishes an uncomfortable truth.

Easter illustrates how our dogma and willingness to accept traditions without question influence our children’s minds and actions. As a result each year thousands of lambs go to slaughter. There are hundreds of bunnies end up in shelters across the world because Easter break ends and school starts. Which means back to routine and the pet has to go!

Maybe this Easter you can begin a new tradition to play with bunnies in a shelter, pledge to help stop the gifting of animals. As for the lambs, we urge you to read the study below and come to your own conclusions.

¹ McGuire, L., Palmer, S. B., & Faber, N. S. (2022). The Development of Speciesism: Age-Related Differences in the Moral View of Animals. Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221086182

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