Chapter 2: Why?
We've already reviewed the Canon Evidence, but we don't know why they did it. Let's start with examples of Ideas that Animals would think of:
"We don't need humans.": Well then, why does the ASPCA spend billions of dollars on helpless animals? So that's not it.
"The humans wage war too often… they're too controversial.": That maybe it, but there's no evidence.
"They've mistreated us, but let's wait and device a plan.": This answer is the one we can get the most evidence out of. For instance, why would the animals think us humans have mistreated them? First, let's look at a section of an article written by Doris Lin on .com:
According to The Humane Society of the United States approximately ten billion cattle, chickens, ducks, hogs, sheep, lambs and turkeys were killed for food in the United States in 2015. While that number is staggering, the good news is that the number of animals being killed for human consumption has been steadily declining.
The bad news is that this number doesn't take into account the number of fish taken from the ocean for human consumption or the species and numbers of marine animals that become victims of fishermen who either refuse or are ignorant of devices to protect those animals.
If that's not bad enough, 100 elephants die each day in Africa by the hand of poachers. African poachers kill elephants for their meat, body parts, and ivory. Plus, 600 lions die each year with 64% of those people not wanting meat even out of experiments or ANYTHING! Seriously, they kill them for the sport of it! Sometimes people give out cash rewards for killing a specific lion. More details on .com. All these stats are OVERWELMING not even considering the 100 million reptiles, birds, rats, fish and more are killed in 2014 for experiments, the 40 million innocent animals that are killed worldwide for fur, and finally the 200 million helpless animals by hunters in the US every year. And there'smore. A LOT more. I just didn't want to mention it all (because you would probably be skipping a lot of the reading, with the cause of it being so long).
WHEW! After all that, it is clear to state that there is no wonder why animals would get tired of getting killed for sometimes no reason! Animals probably lose family members every day of their lives. How emotionally exhausting that would be, and you'd still have to go on catching, chasing, every day just for your meals. Every. Single. Moment, you'd be wondering, "Will I die today?" especially at the hands of a human poacher. Then you'd realize (in even preys' perspective), "The only people we're killed by are humans. When we're killed by predators, we're at least killed for survival of their kind and we can reproduce fast enough so that we won't go extinct…but with humans around, we will be." Suddenly, it brightens. Suddenly, the answer becomes clear. The only way. Their only choice. That only choice for the animal kingdom to make, is to prepare for battle.