Members of the New Milford Zoning Commission have a choice: Enable more cruelty and suffering, or reject the Farmland and Forest Preservation Committee’s proposal to allow “the incidental use of a facility located on a farm for slaughtering and/or processing of animals.”

We can say no to stealing other species’ lives, without robbing farmers of their livelihoods. We can stop killing animals and start supporting non-animal agriculture. We can stop building more killing floors and start tearing down the bloodstained ones on which countless individuals have been executed.

There is no third, “humane” choice. There is nothing “humane” about doing that which is brutally violent, nothing “humane” about bringing animals into this world to face a knife across the throat. The word is a rationalization, a piece of propaganda that’s as absurd as it is insulting to those who have suffered, those whose lives have been needlessly and mercilessly stolen.

None of the victims of animal agriculture had or has a choice, but members of the commission do: Enable more animals to be brutalized, or reject the monstrousness that our society so widely accepts.

David Brensilver

Waterford