I Hate Animal Cruelty - Forum & Chat Board | Feeling Helpless

I regularly get very stressed and upset as I think about all the animals suffering around the world- the animals who are terrified as they await the horrible fate of slaughter, those stuck in laboratory cages, undergoing harrowing acts of torture on a day to day basis, those in fur farms, those whose habitats are being torn from beneath them, those suffering unspeakable acts of cruelty every day and quite frankly I feel utterly sick to my stomach.  I feel complete helplessness  and overwhelming disbelief that the human world uses and manipulates and tortures the non-human world in such a mass scale? Surely something has to give- we cannot seriously continue in this way can we?? Sorry to be so doom and gloom but I just watched something super distressing and needed to off load. Does anybody else ever feel like this? What more can be done??! 

I know what you mean, earthjamb, and I feel the same way that you  do.  In fact, I literally obsess about these things and work myself up into a knot!

That's the big problem for me.  I joined PETA so that I could take somewhat of an activist role, but I can't read any of the things they send me.  Or watch any of the videos.  Or look at any of the pictures.  Or I literally can't SLEEP at night!!!  What I wonder is, how do you get past this?  How do you help out when you literally can't bear to look at these things.

I guess on a smaller scale, I do what I can and report people that leave their dogs out in the freezing cold, all night, with no protection.  But it would be really nice to be able to help on a global level.

It just sucks as I feel stuck with little real ways to help.

I know how you feel. This world is so horrific to animals. I'm always thinking about the torture they go through and I am forever sad and depressed. I still can't believe this world is so selfish and disgusting. It makes me so ill .