craftygamergirl

This might be a weird question but...how do you handle the emotional labor/trauma associated with seeing suffering animals when you obviously care passionately about them? I am very sensitive to animal abuse and struggle to view images or even read about it without having it running through my mind for hours and days afterwards. As a vegan, obviously you work to meet your own principles, I'm just interested in how you keep from going crazy.

Thanks for your answer. I suppose what I find most difficult is that in many cases, I cannot directly change what's happening in specific cases. I guess I will have to pony up and take some actions that help locally and see if that helps.

I don't know specifically why it's animal abuse for me, because it's not like I hate humans, it just doesn't affect me the same way.

Is it not true that the crackdown on prescription meds (A known quantity, must be pure) has killed more people, since they were then forced onto street drugs? How much have you looked into low income patients and their access to providers who treat pain- many, many clinics that serve Medicaid or similar populations are instituting blanket bans on prescriptions of certain scheduled drugs, regardless of any medical rationale.