One day

When we see what we’ve done, then things may change for them and for us. When people help them by stopping eating them, that’s when it can happen. Then we’ll feel concern, for their comfort and well being. We’ll treat them with as much dignity as we do our own children and companion animals at home. Then we’ll have true animal liberation. To reach that point, to keep up the momentum we have now, to bring this to reality, we’ll need to keep both the dream and the cost of it at the forefront of our consciousness.
Just as environmental consciousness has come about, by way of mass concern for the planet, it follows that we will eventually show the same level of concern for animals and then presumably we’ll drop our animal-eating habits. It all flows naturally when it begins to feel normal to eat exclusively from plants and only wear clothing that hasn’t been made with bits of animals’ bodies. As time goes by we’ll forget why we kept and ate animals, and veganism will be so normal that we won’t have a word for it. By then we’ll acknowledge animals by being at their service, and atone for what we’ve done to them. We’ll rehabilitate them and provide refuge for them in safe sanctuaries. And we certainly won’t be breeding them!! The very idea of interfering with another species’ breeding cycles let alone keeping them in captivity will be scorned. The stories of how it was will be recorded and read about in history books in much the same way as the experiments of Dr. Mengele on humans in Nazi Germany are read about.
When humans realise their mistake and make amends, they’ll become guardians. Animals will regain their lives. Hopefully their individual and irreplaceable souls will find peace. And when we eventually come to rescue these animals, from farms and research labs, it’ll be a two stage process. It won’t be as simple as turning them loose, “to lead a ‘natural’ life”. They’ll have been so completely altered from their wild state that they wouldn’t be able to survive for long on their own. We can only retire them and intervene to stop their breeding … and hope to hell they can forgive us.