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Author Archives: There's an Elephant in the Room
About the words we use: ‘waste’
The concept of ownership of members of nonhuman species and every single one of the uses we make of them, stems from the ugly prejudice known as speciesism, a prejudice with which almost every one of us is indoctrinated from … Continue reading
Posted in Speciesism, Terminology
Tagged breast milk, consumer demand, corpse, dog, eggs, food, leather, nonvegan items, ownership, respect, respectful, speciesism, waste, wasteful, wool
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Say ‘cheese’ – but there’s nothing to smile about
I’ve just been watching a mainstream TV program in the UK about ‘meat free eating’. As a blogger and an animal rights advocate I’ve written extensively about the difference between veganism and the various dietary permutations that are adopted so … Continue reading
Posted in consumer demand, dairy, Terminology
Tagged calf, cheese, kid, lamb, newborn, rennet, stomach, vegan cheese, vegetarian cheese
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Victims in the shadows; …And they’re off!
Today I’d like to offer some points to ponder, as outrage rocks social media about the slaughtering of Australian racehorses whose lives have been used, broken and discarded by the horse racing industry. Like all other institutions grounded in our … Continue reading
Posted in Speciesism, Victims in the shadows
Tagged entertainment, hormone replacement therapy, horse, horse racing, horses, HRT, pregnant mares, premarin, racing, speciesism, urine
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Looking at language: Cull
Cull. We see the word applied increasingly to the mass killing of numerous species; to deer and to foxes and to seals, to pigeons, crows and even swans. The word is in the news at the moment, being applied to … Continue reading
Posted in Speciesism, Terminology
Tagged animal agriculture, badgers, cull, environmental destruction, habitat destruction, nonveganism, profit, slaughter
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Thoughts on the price of folly
Planet Earth is experiencing an escalation of extreme weather events. This escalation will continue for as long as we fail so utterly to grasp that one of the main causes – if not the main cause – is our own … Continue reading
Posted in Global disasters, Sentience
Tagged anger, animal agriculture, climate crisis, climate disaster, death, death row, disaster, disease, disgust, ecological disaster, fire, flood, Flooding, folly, images, sentience, slaughter
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Thoughts about diluting the animal rights message
For a moment, please imagine if you will, that this page were to highlight something horrific being done to humans, something such as torture, sexual violation, or forced labour. Imagine an article describing men, women and children, families and friends … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Speciesism
Tagged animal rights, forced labour, Human rights, sexual violation, social media, speciesism, Torture, truth, victimisation, violation
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Defining veganism in light and shadow
I have always stood by an assertion that veganism was perfectly adequately defined by Donald Watson and his contemporaries when they first developed the philosophy and the words to describe it: The vegan believes that if we are to be … Continue reading
Posted in Victims in the shadows, What is ...?
Tagged cloud, country life, deer, fishing, game, grouse, hunting, light, nonveganism, partridge, pheasants, salmon, shadow, shooting, sport, targets, trout, veganism
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Victims in the shadows: emus
This series of short blogs hopes to shine a spotlight onto ways that humans exploit other creatures for financial gain, ways about which the majority of consumers are unaware. This is not intended to shock; it’s intended to illustrate and … Continue reading
Posted in Speciesism, Victims in the shadows
Tagged butcher, consumer demand, consumers, emu, emu oil, emus, feathers, flay, flesh, leather, oil, oppression, plucking, prejudice, shoppers, slaughter, slaughterhouse, speciesism
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Chicken executions at night
Today I did a taxi run in the early hours of the morning, passing the slaughterhouse at about 03.45 as the pre-dawn glinted on wet black roads, and again at 07.00 in the rain-drenched grey light of day. Approaching the … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, consumer demand
Tagged agony, animal lovers, blood, chicken, chickens, consumer, consumer demand, consumers, infants, miasma, processing plant, shoppers, slaughter, slaughterhouse, stench, terror
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‘Transparency in advertising’ – bring it on
As expected the animal use industries are mounting an increasingly bizarre pushback against the labelling of substances for which they long ago co-opted names. There are frequent media outcries about who has the right to use words like ‘milk’, ‘sausage’, … Continue reading
Posted in Addressing resistance to change, Global disasters, Uncategorized
Tagged advertising, breast milk, burger, climate, climate change, climate crisis, climate emergency, dairy, diet, environment, environmental destruction, extreme weather, guidelines, health, healthy, marketing, milk, nutrition, plant based diet, plant-based, plant-based eating, plants, sausage, supermarket, sustainability, transparency, transparency in advertising, truth in advertising, vegan, veganism, weather
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