Before Best Friends demonstrated that the public prefers a positive message, the standard fare in animal advocacy magazines consisted of
horrific images of animal victims — rabbits blinded by cosmetics testing, foxes in traps being bludgeoned by some human brute, barrels of dead shelter animals, and on and on.
Not exact matches
The SA Government is promising to keep watch as a live export ship loads its first shipment
of sheep in the state since
horrific images of suffering
animals were made public, but protesters are calling for an end to the practice.
Ask anyone who advocates for abused
animals, and they will tell you that on top
of having to absorb the
horrific images and details
of animal abuse — the stuff
of nightmares — there's the added trauma
of often being discounted or disbelieved by society, or even by certain members
of one's own social circle.