We have an ongoing responsibility to the animals.

Really, it's not a whole lot about cherries - it's about corporate sponsorships and such.

Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.

I follow suit, said the lion,
vacating his coat of arms
and movie logos; and the eagle said,
Get me off this flag.

I could end this with a moral,
as if this were a fable about animals,
though no fables are really about animals.

Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatures that compels us to act on their behalf.