Isn’t it an exaggeration?

You get furious when you are called extremists don’t you? "The situation is extreme!" you say, "The ones who are trying to change it are the only sane people around…"
So we’ll answer in the same manner…

Tearing slices off gazelles while they are still alive, trying to escape is an exaggeration
Slowly digest someone after swallowing him wholly is an exaggeration
Killing someone else’s offspring to spread your own genes instead is an exaggeration
Injecting eggs into a live spider’s body to ensure that when the descendants hatch they will have breakfast is an exaggeration
Powerfully horning other males for territory and for the "right" to mate is an exaggeration
Chemically liquefy other insects before eating them is an exaggeration.

A 15 meters wide monstrous black tide of around 100,000 driver ants warriors, working mutually as a single hunting unit swarming into any opening in the body of their prey (rats, scorpions, lizards and even young birds that are unable to fly), including the mouth and nose, suffocating or devouring them alive, is an exaggeration.

Skunks come at night to caves full with bats knowing that sooner or later in such a crowed some will lose their grip and since baby bats are still unable to fly at their early age they fall on the cave’s ground and are totally helpless, they are easy prey.
The cave is totally dark so the skunks don’t see the fallen baby bat, they also can’t hear them because of the strong shrieks of the millions of other bats and they can’t smell them as well because of the strong ammonia odder so they actually grope handing the cave until they bump into one and since they don’t see where the head is, to avoid a bite they role the baby bats on the ground over and over until they die. That is an exaggeration.

Letting the U.S south east coast dolphins continue with their horrible fishing tactics of swiping fish into the riverbanks dooming them to death by suffocation and severe stress resulting from the rapid lift from water to land is an exaggeration.
Another cruel hunting method the dolphins use is circulating sardine fish driving them to swim against the water surface and against the stream, making a giant meat ball of sardines and then starting eating from it. If that is not exaggerated enough, birds who learned to interpret this dolphin behavior soon join the feast and eat the sardines from above too.

Octopuses use their eight sucker-lined arms to capture their prey (mostly bottom-dwelling crustaceans and fish), pierce the shells and inject poison that causes paralysis. The venom contains some maculotoxin, a poison more violent than any found on land animals. It contains tetrodotoxin, which blocks sodium channels and causes motor paralysis and occasionally respiratory failure. The senses of the prey are often intact, meaning the victims are aware and remain fully conscious but unable to respond. Then the octopuses release salivary enzymes, loosening the meat from the inner shell and then use their hard, parrot-like beaks to tear pieces of meat. If this is not one of the most exaggerated methods of absorbing energy then what is?

Now you’ll decide what is more exaggerated:
The sand swimmer mole which drown ants in the sand and eats them, the star nose mole which has 22 fleshy arms each packed with 50 nerve endings and can locate insects underground very easily, the Giant Anteater who don’t eat termites but actually drinks them from their giant nests with his tongue or the pangolin who eats a whole ant nest with the thousands of ants in it?
Just 4 examples of one type of predator - insects hunter.

Male angonoka tortoise trying to flip one another over their backs when fighting over mating rights is an exaggeration. After one succeeded he will sometimes bite the legs of the loser before he leaves him there to be boiled alive while he will mate with the female.

To let the notorious insects wars go on is an exaggeration. Every spring in the island Honshu in japan wars between honeybees and hornets occur. The imported european honeybees who were brought to japan especially to pollinate crops, don’t stand a chance against the giant hornets, but the local honeybees developed ferocious defensive attack against the hornet scout who searches for beehive. Usually when she finds one she chemically marks it and get back to her hive to bring the troops who’ll destroy the colony and steal the honey, but the honeybees seduce the scout with special chemical and ambush her inside the hive. Intensely buzzing around her they rise the temperature up to 47 degrees which boil the hornet alive. That’s just one example out of thousands of chemical wars between insects.

And if we’ve mentioned wasps…
20 larvas slowly slicing a caterpillar’s skin from the inside out after their mother wasp has injected them in the form of eggs into his body so they can have constant supply of food when they hatch inside him, is an exaggeration.
And it even goes further than that, as to protect the eggs the wasp inject a virus she produce in her ovaries that destroys the caterpillars’ immune system and if it is not exaggerated enough the wasp also inject a certain chemical that cause the caterpillar to protect the larvas while they cocoon themselves until he dies of hunger or disease since his immune system is destroyed.

These are just a few specimens of the world you refuse to destroy. And that’s without a word of how insane factory farms are, how sadistic experiments are, how abusing circuses are, how madden fur farms are, how violent bullfights and rodeos are, how stressful zoos are and etc. because we focused on examples which are part of the world you long for, totally ignoring the impossibility of reaching a non-speciesist world.

But it is an exaggeration to expect humans who are so far from finding a sustainable, rational, equalitarian and non-discriminative political, social and economic way to live with each other in the same country! Not to mention with their whole species (there is always a war going on somewhere in the world. More than three new wars every year), so settling the relationships with other species on the base of equal consideration of interests?!

It is an exaggeration to draw hopes from the liberation of the African slaves, because for one there is no compression since the animals cannot fight for themselves, the level of carnage suffered by the animals is infinitely greater than anything experienced by humans and because the value of the victims is much lower (humans have absolute control over the reproduction of entire populations, they mass-produce creatures to mass-murder them) and second because slavery was never ended! There are more slaves in the world today than ever before in history.

To continue with the efforts to convince humans to stop consuming animal products because it hurts animals while they don’t stop even when it kills them and their families, while they eat whatever they want whenever they want, keep on smoking even though they know it hurts them and their own children, don’t exercise, eat tons of sugar, fat and cholesterol, are too lazy to do something so easy and undemanding like recycling, while most are still racist, sexist and chauvinist, is an exaggeration.

But even if we will exaggerate for a moment and say that it is possible to make a vegan world it would still be an exaggeration to expect humans to absorb energy out of nothing and so even if a vegan world was possible… Poisoning the world while producing energy is an exaggeration. And more than 2.5 million tons are used each year. 10 or more cycles of pesticide sprays during one crop cycle are not uncommon, and sometimes the seeds are even sprayed before planting. Today it is estimated that the agricultural chemical industry is producing about 50,000 different pesticides based on approximately 600 active ingredients.

The methods farmers use to defend crops are an exaggeration and the diversity is scary. From the common leg trap that snaps as someone tread upon it, to creative mechanisms that shoot sharp spears once triggered, scissor-like knifes that shuts firmly or a noose-like loop that tightens and chokes. Burrows are attacked by varied toxic gases, liquids called fumigants and also with foaming agents which are pumped into the burrow system, quickly filling it entirely. Smoke bombs are also very common, and even flammable gases such as propane and oxygen are injected with a hose into the burrows and then ignited.
Flooding or burning fields after harvest are also common.
But the most "exaggerated" variation of "pest control" takes place in sugar-cane fields (Since they are protected from burning by a very moist tissue) where the farmers begin to harvest the field on all sides going from the ends to the center, so many animals are packed at the last square. Then they burn the area while surrounding it with tractors, pickaxes, listers, mattocks, pitchforks and etc. The animals that were able to escape the flames, the smoke and the tractors, are clubbed to death by the farmers.

You all know about leather, fur and wool but did you know that cotton is the most pesticide-dependent crop in the world, accounting for up to 25% of all pesticide use?
In one year alone over 50 million pounds of pesticides are used on U.S. cotton fields.
Every T-shirt made of conventional cotton requires 1/4 pound of poison. It is not as bad as wool and fur but isn’t it an exaggeration?

It is an exaggeration to expect of the plant based agriculture to feed the whole world using only wild pollination methods and the wind. It is not at all realistic and so even more honeybees will be exploited in the pollination industry which already exploits more than two million honeybee colonies per year in the US alone.
And forcing billions upon billions of bees, to go through routine examination and handling, artificial feeding regimes, drug and pesticide treatment, genetic manipulation, artificial insemination, smoking, air blasting, transportation (by air, rail and road), starvation and slaughter in order to grow vegan food is an exaggeration.

And it doesn’t sum up with food only. Everything humans do is an exaggeration.

Expecting humans to give up their cars because they may kill other humans is a serious exaggeration in their eyes so do it for squirrels, racoons and cats?

Treating the ocean like a giant dumpster is an exaggeration.

Treating the ocean and the sky as lanes to wherever is an exaggeration.

About 2,000 square feet as the average home size is an exaggeration.

Expecting humans to stop building shiny glassed reflective skyscrapers just because around one billion birds die in glass collisions every year, is an exaggeration. So does expecting them not to trim down city trees during the spring which is the height of the nesting season for most birds and squirrels and also the time when a tree is directing all of its energy into producing new growth. Asking them not to trim the trees at all and totally stop any building is not an exaggeration it is hallucination.

We also claim that it is the situation which is extreme.
There is nothing more exaggerated than life of suffering from birth to death of 100 billion creatures every year. So no, we are definitely not exaggerating.
Animal rights activism can’t achieve a non-speciesist world and even if it was achievable it would still be a sufferingfull world, food can’t be produced without hurting someone else, it is just impossible. Animal rights activism also totally ignores the innumerable and inapprehensible suffering that happens in every fraction of a second to millions of creatures by other nonhuman animals.
It is very cruel and cynical to think that it’s part of life so there is nothing we can do about it. The fact that all these atrocities, all this suffering, is part of life, is exactly the problem.
We can’t change the system, we can only eliminate it.
It is a sufferingfull or sufferingless world.
What will you choose?