Campaign Declarations

What follows is a record of declarations made.

They are not slogans in the commercial sense, but statements, formed in response to systems of exploitation sustained through silence, distance, and repetition. Each declaration accompanies a campaign that confronts a specific form of harm inflicted upon animals, often concealed by language, tradition, or routine.

These words are only introduced here. Their full testimony is recorded as each chapter is released, with access shared through Letters of Witness.

This work exists For The Animals, not as symbol, not as metaphor, and not as an expression of personal gain.

Bullfighting

“True courage is measured not by conquering another life, but by defending it.”

This declaration exposes a practice that disguises domination as bravery and cruelty as cultural honour. Bullfighting is built on the deliberate weakening, wounding, and killing of a sentient being, engineered so suffering appears ceremonial rather than violent. What is praised as courage is not compassion or restraint, but the public endurance of inflicting harm, applauded, ritualised, and preserved through tradition.

Poultry Farming

“No living being should breathe their first breath in a place designed for their last.”

This declaration confronts a system that engineers life for immediate destruction. Intensive poultry farming confines birds from the moment they hatch, denying movement, autonomy, and natural behaviour, and reducing existence to a controlled interval before slaughter. Life is permitted only while it remains profitable, and suffering is absorbed as an acceptable operational cost within a mechanised cycle of confinement and death.

Dairy Industry

“To turn motherhood into a mechanism and babies into byproducts is the deepest betrayal of nature.”

This declaration exposes an industry built on the systematic violation of maternal bonds. Dairy production depends on forced impregnation, repeated separation, and the routine removal of calves, transforming birth and nurture into instruments of extraction. What is presented as natural and pastoral is, in reality, a cycle of enforced loss, where care is exploited, and motherhood is stripped of its meaning in service of yield.

Fishing

“When life is taken from the water, balance is taken from the world — and tomorrow pays for what we ignore.”

This declaration confronts a system of extraction built on the routine killing of sentient beings and the removal of life from living waters. Fishing strips oceans of individuals, while bycatch condemns countless unintended beings to suffering and death without recognition. When life is taken from the water, balance is removed from living systems, and what is framed as efficiency becomes ecological erasure, with consequences deferred so that harm is normalised and collapse is passed forward as inevitability.

Sheep Farming

“A system that forces innocence into the world only to exploit and consume it has butchered every last trace of compassion.”

This declaration exposes a cycle built on enforced breeding, early separation, and routine slaughter. Life is deliberately brought into existence not to be protected, but to be commodified, managed, and destroyed. Beneath pastoral imagery lies a system that depends on vulnerability while denying it care, transforming gentleness into a resource and innocence into a consumable product.

Pig Farming

“To ignore the light in their eyes is to expose the depths of humanity’s darkness.”

This declaration confronts the conscious denial required to exploit beings of profound intelligence and emotional depth. Pigs demonstrate awareness, memory, curiosity, and fear, qualities that demand recognition, yet their inner lives are systematically disregarded to sustain the industry. The violence endures not through ignorance, but through a practiced refusal to acknowledge what is plainly visible, requiring empathy itself to be suppressed.

Badger Culling

“Blame does not fix a failing system; it protects one that refuses to change.”

This declaration exposes a policy rooted in deflection rather than accountability. Badger culling shifts responsibility for systemic failure onto wildlife, sacrificing living beings to shield intensive farming from scrutiny. By reducing complex problems to a convenient scapegoat, the practice preserves harmful structures intact, ensuring that violence is repeated while meaningful change is deferred.

Poaching

“Pain echoes throughout creation as we slaughter its ancient creatures for greed and status.”

This declaration confronts the commodification of wildlife and the devastation it leaves behind. Ancient beings are hunted for profit and prestige, their lives reduced to trophies that signify dominance rather than worth. In this violence, creation itself bears witness, and the creator grieves, as ecosystems are fractured, inherited continuities are severed, and humanity reveals its failure to recognise restraint, kinship, or consequence.

Where We Are Now

This record will continue to grow as further campaigns are released. Each declaration stands as a refusal, to look away, to soften language, or to accept cruelty as inevitable.

A Declaration of Freedom for All Beings
— WildSpirit Testament