I don't care if people like me. I was cared about animal rights for 15 years before I went vegan. I'm not going for the people who truly believe humans deserve the right to not be tortured but it's ok to treat animals that way, the people who scoff at the term "speciesism".

I'm not "literally" the equivalent, but I see what you're trying to say. I wished a fictional cat that I invented in my head to live in a box. XXtreme, I know, but not really that bad in the grand scheme of things.

That dude is out like a firefighter who lost his last battle with the flames.

Show me the option, please.

The fact that you can ignore that thumbnail and not even mention it is exactly the problem. You'd rather prove that my argument is flawed rather than just admit that factory farming is god-awful and people who protest it actually have a valid point.

Fighting the good fight!! Someone has to protect the fictional cat that I invented in my head to prove a point. Thankfully, he has a hero in you.

That's a fair point. But, we are dealing with a very special type of people here in these comments who clearly don't have respect for animals:

Well I didn't contribute to the suffering of any animals today, so yeah, I'd say it was pretty good.

Even this one?

Yeah - I'm probably the hypocrite here, not you. Keep ignoring that little voice in your head that tells you that chicken or pig or cow you're eating probably had a horribly miserable life. I know I did, for over 25 years.

Who is the "we" that agrees on that point? Seriously? Look at the legions of smug comments talking about eating factory farmed animals in here.

I think I got you.

Asking that we treat animals with the same respect we treat humans is super crazy, I know.

I hope someone steals your cat and forces it to live in a box of its own shit for the rest of its life.

In the way that Ralph Nader was the worst because he took votes away from Gore. It still doesn't change the fact the George W. was actually the fucking worst.

I would argue — as a relatively successful and contributing member of society — that protesting against mass animal abuse is a pretty just cause to protest against.

This would be like Dick Cheney shooting an Iraqi child in the head in front of Iraq War protesters.

yeah, forcing chickens and pigs and cows to live in cramped quarters standing in their own shit so we can eat them is totally fine, and making fun of mentally ill people who have identified this oversight of society (especially when you haven't) is hilarious. Good for you all! Imagine that your dog or cat lived…

On the similarity to Bundesliga logos —- I think they were intentionally going for that, I live in German Village (neighborhood in C-Bus), and the German immigrant history in the city goes back to the 1800's.

Love the story, but find it ironic you got the year Meb won (this year) so so wrong.