I would like to know what is meant by "walk the walk" in this context. Is Ms. Lapointe urging me to go to a yard where a dog has been alone, tethered, forgotten and/or abused and shoot him or her where he or she stands? Should I find the closest Puppy Mill and murder all the tortured captives? Perhaps I should find the closest colony of abandoned cats and kittens and stomp one to death in the same manner that Kelowna and EBB Environmental Consultants did to a rabbit. For the word "stomp", anyone may substitute "shoot", "euthanize", or "strangle" (whatever word is more appropriate for your interpretation of "walking the walk").

I would really like to know what "walking the walk" means in this situation.

Further, as a former Christian clergy-person, I certainly do not consider speaking for the abolition of the petty enslavement of all animals, including human animals, as preaching. It is simply a statement of facts as they exist in the unfortunately real world. The primary, and perhaps only, flaw in existence is egotistical greed and this is the motivating factor for a vast majority of human animals. I am not preaching here. I am making a simple statement of fact. Would it be preaching to say that all humans should be free? That, too, is a simple statement of fact. It is impossible logically to allow only one human to be free, or ten, or one million. If all are not free, none are! The same is relevant for all sentient beings. Either there is freedom on Earth or there is not.

Again, I ask, "What does 'walking the walk' really mean?"