Social revolutions are possible. Don’t you believe a revolution in the way society seize nonhuman animals is possible?

Many activists are encouraged by the liberation of the African slaves, because of the similarities between that struggle and the animal liberation struggle. Well, there are many differences too.
First and most important, the animals cannot fight against human’s tyranny by themselves, they need other humans to help them.
Secondly, the exploitation is unproportionately larger. Thousands of people may die for a cause, for liberty or self-determination but billions of animals are systematically, thoughtlessly and brutally exploited every year, which translates into millions each day!
Thirdly, all humans are the oppressors, even us vegans.
And finally, the value of the victims is much lower. The level of carnage suffered by the animals is infinitely greater than anything experienced by humans. Violent oppression, imprisonment, forced labor, slavery and even ethnic purification are all human phenomenon as well, but an artificial selection to enlarge specific profitable organs on the expense of other vital organs is not recorded yet among humans. Slaves were picked in auctions by their size but it cannot be compared with the genetic manipulations on an entire species and definitely not with creating a species for specific functions like was done with cows, sheep and chickens in the food industry and with transgenic "lab animals", manipulations which are still intensified all the time. A hereditary distortion was never caused among humans.
Humans have absolute control over the reproduction of entire populations and entire species. They mass-produce creatures to mass-murder them. And that is a huge difference.
Throughout history hundreds of millions of humans were and still are exploited in several ways, mostly as a work source and as sex objects, but as opposed to nonhumans, they were never the raw material itself. Animals are bred for slaughter, fed for slaughter and led to slaughter. The level of oppression experienced by animals is greater, more pervasive and longer in existence than any human oppression against other humans.

These are just part of the reasons why it is not reasonable to draw hopes from the anti-slavery struggle. But the main one is simple and very sad - slavery was never ended.
"No-one shall be held in slavery and servitude", says the universal declaration of human rights. However, there are more slaves in the world today than ever before in history, and yet, most people are not aware of this fact. In part, this is because modern-day slavery does not fit our familiar images of shackles, whips and auctions.
Contemporary forms of human bondage include: forced labor, servile marriage, debt bondage, child labor and forced prostitution. Modern slaves can be concubines, shoe makers, cane cutters, carpets weavers or roads builders.
Though the vast majority is no longer sold at public auction, today's slaves are often no better off than their more familiar predecessors. On the contrary, in many cases, their lives are more brutal and hazardous.

Apartheid is not over either, it has changed to the world debt and the related "structural adjustment programs" (For further reading please read More than ever before in history and Compassion spin in the article section).

A very common way to explain what the animal rights idea stands for is using an analogy to the moral state of children. Children are seized, through the eyes of society, as an inseparable part of the moral community but also as ones who don’t have the obligation to behave in moral standards because they still lack the understanding of moral behavior, therefore they can’t take responsibility for their actions. They are defined as "moral patients" and not as "moral agents", which means they deserve moral treatment but are not obligated to carry it out.
Some animal rights activists claim that animals deserve the same moral status as children because of the obvious similarities and because the differences are not relevant in a moral context. Therefore animals are moral patients but not moral agents. They should be in the moral community. Theoretically we agree, however we have some fundamental problems with the statement - treat animals as children.

Let’s see how children are treated in this world:
Approximately 540 million children in the world (1 in 4) live in dangerous, unstable situations.
More than half of the children that live in conflict zones witnessed a murder.
Half of them were held in a position, in which they thought they were going to die.
However, the most dangerous arena for children is the one place that is supposed to be the safest, their own home.
The rates of all kinds of sexual abuses are terrifying. Approximately 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men report a history of some form of childhood sexual abuse. (For further reading please read To Their Own Flesh And Blood in the article section).
Humans have failed in ensuring that children have access to education, health services and basic protection. The human race can’t even carry out its most basic mission - to insure a safe life for its own offspring.

In this world you can’t afford to be weak. Children are systematically exploited all over the world. Is this what we ask for animals?
Is this our model?
There is no doubt that the state of animals will fundamentally improve if it will be the same as the state of children but, why are you compromising on "less suffering" when you can end it all?

Human’s priorities among their own species are scary. They leave no hope for the nonhumans. It is estimated that $50 billion per year are required to provide universal access to clean drinking water and sanitation. Currently 1/5 is spent each year on water systems which is, at least in quantity terms, human’s biggest problem.
In Europe $11 billion is spent each year on ice cream. $105 billion is spent annually on alcoholic drinks, twice the amount required to ensure water, sanitation and hygiene for all.
It would cost each citizen of the richest countries $10 per year to fully finance the struggle against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria in developing countries.
Another $10 from each citizen of the richest countries per year would provide basic education and primary health care to twenty of the poorest countries in Africa.
Meanwhile world military spendings are more than a trillion dollars per year.

Comparing African slaves, women and children to the state of nonhuman animals is false.
It is an illusion.
It’s an illusion just like the slaves’ liberation is an illusion of an example of a struggle that had succeeded, and just like the feminist struggle is an illusion of an example of a struggle that had succeeded or like the illusion that there is a nonviolent philosophy in this world (please read: I am sorry, I draw the line where there is violence in this FAQ).
They are all illusions and they are all very dangerous. Activists from all kinds of social change struggles, cling on to these examples which are false and build their philosophy, moral standards, tactics, hopes and motivations based on these illusions.
They prevent ideas that could come from a true examination of the state of affairs, to be implemented. The illusion causes activists to believe that a revolution is possible. The effect of that false belief is devastating. More animals, humans and nonhumans, suffer today than ever before in history.

The fact that there are more slaves today than ever before in history, but still people think that slavery is a long gone phenomenon, proves our point in the clearest and also the cruelest way.

The fact that activists cling on to "so called" successful struggles, stands for itself. Come on wake up! Half of the world’s human population is still automatically and systematically being discriminated against for gender reasons, so don’t give us, and more important don’t give yourselves "the world is changing" argument and "it takes small victories to win a war". You call twice more slaves, 200 years after the slaves have been "liberated", a victory?!

In anyway we observe it, it turns out really bad, whether the activists are not aware of what is going on in the world, whether they are aware but yet satisfied with their activity, whether they convince themselves that a real change is possible in the current world order or whether they cling on to these false examples of success of other struggles as an argument that they sell, mostly to themselves, in order to keep on doing what they do, and not to feel useless, meaningless and obligated to always look for ways to be more useful and better.

Anyone who will approach the idea without biases and preconceived notions would necessarily get to the simple and obvious conclusion that there is only one solution. Everything else is just playing revolution. You are not doing it for them. If it was up to the animals you can be sure they wouldn’t have wasted time trying to convince humans not to torture them. Not even one of you, we are sure, seriously thinks that is what the animals would ask you to do if they could.
They would expect a little more than demonstrations and leafleting don’t you think? We think you know that.

If animals could talk do you think they would explain to people what they can eat instead of their bodies or would they fight back?
They would escape from their captors.
They would shoot back when being shot at.
They would destroy the cages that confine them, so they could not be used again.
They would damage roads that make way for the destructive force of automobiles. They would burn down research facilities, and kill animal researchers, who daily destroy their kin for profit and amusement. They would form an underground of saboteurs to disrupt the machinery of the vast human killing machine called society.

We believe that those with a wider spectrum would start a research which will seek to stop the suffering for good. It might be very long and very frustrating but if they wish for a root and fundamental solution, that is the one. Annihilation of the abusive race.
Unfortunately the nonhuman animals can’t do it.
You can. Don’t let them down.

The last thing we want to do is to despair you. On the other hand, we certainly don’t want you to keep wasting your time - counting on human’s willingness to be thoughtful and caring towards other than themselves, while all the suffering continues.

Things are not changing in the world because of moral positions. As soon as activists from the animal rights movement and other revolutionary movements, understand that, the faster the suffering will end.