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Author Archives: There's an Elephant in the Room
Taking a break
Owing to private family circumstances I have taken the decision to deactivate my Facebook account meantime. I’m unable to say when, or indeed if, I shall return to blogging but in the meantime I wish well to all followers of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
13 Comments
‘To finish’; looking at language
‘Finishing’ is yet another of the words with which the animal use industry glosses over the monstrous activities of our species. ‘Finishing’ is part of the practice of making victims out of gentle and defenceless individuals for nonvegan consumers to … Continue reading
Posted in Terminology
Tagged consumer, consumer demand, euphemism, feel-good, finish, finished, finishing, glossy, sentient, slaughter, slaughterhouse, welfare, welfare standards
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Dress rehearsal for the apocalypse
As we look out on silent, empty, streets, watching while statistics of the sick and the dead skyrocket out of control, and the sickening chill of fear clutches at our hearts for our loved ones whom we are powerless to … Continue reading
Posted in Global disasters
Tagged animal rights, breast milk, consumer demand, coronavirus, dairy, eggs, factory farming, farming, intensive, links, milk, respect, vegan, veganism, virus, zoonoses, zoonotic
7 Comments
Thinking of ducks
Ducks. As a child I used to love visiting duckponds. It was a Sunday treat and few children of my generation in my part of the world haven’t been enchanted by ‘going to feed the ducks’, clutching a bag of … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Statistics, Victims in the shadows
Tagged cooking, down, duck, duckpond, ducks, eggs, feathers, foie gras, shooting, slaughter, speciesism, sport, vegan
4 Comments
Property – what it means to be ‘owned’
I’ve written about ‘property’ before but it’s a topic that bears repeating. Maybe I’ll stumble across new ways of expressing the monstrous abomination that owning other individuals represents. As the crushing impacts of widespread climate-collapse increase in frequency, along with … Continue reading
Posted in FAQ, property status
Tagged animal rights, climate catastrophe, climate crisis, climate disaster, exotic meat, foie gras, hunting, kangaroos, koala, legal, livestock, macerator, owned, property, property status, shark fin, speciesism, standard practice, trophy hunting, veal, welfare, welfare standards, zoonotic
4 Comments
Slaughter numbers jump by 2.2 billion
Despite the euphoria caused by the proliferation of plant based dietary options in shops and restaurants, the statistics don’t bear out the wishful thinking about veganism taking over the world any time soon. In fact, given the accelerating climate catastrophe … Continue reading
Posted in consumer demand, Global disasters, Statistics
Tagged 2018, climate catastrophe, diet, environmental destruction, increase, plant based diet, Statistics, vegan
26 Comments
The doer and the deed – considering the difference
Recently I published a post that said with regard to animal rights, we need to focus on farming as a central issue rather than attacking individuals who carry out what is after all only one of many barbaric practices that … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Awakening to veganism
Tagged anger, avian flu, becoming vegan, change, China, coronavirus, deed, doer, education, evil, fault, hate, hate speech, ignorance, ignorant, mad cow disease, no one gives a shit, none of them gives a shit, potential to change, racist, roots of anger, SARS, scum, swine flu, vitriol, xenophobia racism, xenophobic, zoonotic
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In the inferno – thoughts about selective empathy
As Australia burns, the media shows harrowing scenes of indigenous species like koalas and kangaroos, injured, burned and dying. We see so many human interest stories, individual koala mothers with infants clutching at their fur being rescued and cared for; … Continue reading
Posted in Global disasters, Uncategorized
Tagged climate crisis, climate disaster, climate emergency, farming, inferno, joey, Journey, koala, livestock
17 Comments
Veganism; ‘strict’ or ‘simple’ – a matter of perspective
I have heard it said that ‘militant’ members of the community ‘scare off’ people from becoming vegan with ‘strict guidelines.’ I have found living vegan to be the easiest, most consistent, most nonviolent way to live that I could possibly … Continue reading
Posted in Addressing resistance to change, Uncategorized
Tagged animal rights, honesty, justice, militant, nonveganism, strict, strict guidelines, truth, veganism, violence
3 Comments
December Days
The festive consumer extravaganza is in full swing here in Scotland. Wandering aimlessly in a supermarket, I see a myriad seasonal items depicting animals; curly-coated lambs, fluffy bunnies, pink piglets, yellow chicks and doe-eyed, long-legged deer delightfully adorning pyjamas, duvet … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Uncategorized
Tagged bells, breast feeding, breast milk, cashmere, Christmas, consumer, consumer demand, festive, glisten, glitter, jingle bells, leather, milk, sheepskin, tinsel, wool
7 Comments
