Every month, in an act of compassion, the owner of a Stockton slaughterhouse willingly releases two chickens who get to live out the rest of their days at a sanctuary. This month, a pair of beautiful red hens we named Hannah and Cia were the lucky two.

Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary, where Hannah and Cia will live, also had an outbreak of HPAI last year. But because of their individualized care, they were able to save most of their 160 birds, with only 26 passing away. They received no bailouts.

What if we aligned our technology and tax dollars with our empathy instead? Researchers say that investing in food production methods that don’t require slaughtering animals would save us $7.3 trillion globally in health burdens and ecosystem degradation. Humanity’s survival now depends on caring for other species, not slaughtering them.

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