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Author Archives: There's an Elephant in the Room
False hopes and misunderstanding ‘welfare’
All the regulations that lay down ‘welfare’ requirements for animals being unnecessarily used by humans (and all uses fall into this category) are designed with a single purpose. So what is that purpose? All we need to do is use … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, welfare
Tagged advocacy, autonomy, awareness, CCTV, commercial assets, commodification, commodities, consumer demand, eggs, ethics, financial interests, harm, humane, killing, milk, regulations, resources, revenue, rights, sentience, slaughter, torment, Torture, vegan, veganism, victims, violence, welfare, wellbeing
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A vegan parable
If any one of us were to encounter someone who considered they were a nice person, but who liked to drown puppies and kittens, who had done this all their life and was clearly going to carry doing it for … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Uncategorized
Tagged advocacy, consumer demand, harm, human superiority, sentience, slaughter, speciesism, vegan, veganism, victims
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‘I think animals should be humanely treated’
It’s what everyone says. They say it while eating their flesh, drinking the milk they made for their infants, using the eggs they laid in their desperate and futile attempts to be mothers. They say it wearing flayed skins, body … Continue reading
Posted in 'Happy' exploitation, Awakening to veganism
Tagged commodification, consumer demand, dairy, eggs, harm, humane, justice, milk, sentience, veganism, victims, violence
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What will happen to the animals when the world goes vegan?
What will happen to all the animals if the world goes vegan? You do realise that they’ll become extinct? Will the planet be overrun with animals? Who will pay for looking after the animals if it becomes illegal to eat … Continue reading
Posted in Addressing resistance to change
Tagged breeding, climate change, commodification, consumer demand, dairy, disease, ecology, economy, eggs, environmental destruction, extinction, genetic modification, health, insemination, milk, resources, sanctuary, selective breeding, sentience, slaughter, smoking, speciesism, vegan, veganism
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Dairy: thoughts on motherhood, cultural conditioning and hope
When we are not vegan and we hear the word ‘dairy’, what do we think of? We think of milk and cream, of yogurt and crème frais, of butter and cheeses, and of ice cream and chocolate. We think of … Continue reading
This wonderful life
So often, I see claims that in causing our victims to exist by our contrivance and intervention, we are bestowing some gift on them that they would otherwise not have. When I hear this, I think of the 60-70 billions … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Sentience
Tagged commodification, consumer demand, cruelty, eggs, health, human superiority, milk, resources, Respect, sentience, slaughter, speciesism, vegan, veganism, victims, violence
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What’s the point? A personal reflection.
‘What’s the point of going vegan? One person can’t make any difference.’ Familiar words that attempt to justify continuing to cause devastating harm to those around us who are defenceless against our brute force and technology. It’s also an attempt … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Awakening to veganism
Tagged commodities, consumer demand, harm, individual, justice, personal, resources, responsibility, slaughter, truth, values, veganism, victims, violence
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Who are the REAL victims?
It a simple statement of fact that our victims are sentient, that they value their lives and that we have no need to use them because every use requires that their right to live unharmed is overruled in favour of … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy
Tagged commodification, consumer demand, resources, sentience, slaughter, veganism, victims
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A thought on ‘less use’
When we talk to others about ‘less’ animal use, we are encouraging them to think of nonhuman animals as a quantity that can be reduced, in the same we that we think of using less oil or less sugar. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy
Tagged commodification, consumer demand, harm, resources, sentience, truth, vegan, veganism, victims, violence
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A brief thought on the hijacking of ‘humane’
When you look at this image, be honest. Is ‘humane’ the first word that pops into your head? I doubt it. And then, if you’re like I used to be, you’ll find another internal dialogue begins. ‘But it must be … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Terminology
Tagged brutality, commodification, consumer demand, dairy, eggs, harm, humane, humanity, Respect, veganism
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