Tag Archives: animal rights

Looking at language: Pests

Posted on January 18, 2021 by There's an Elephant in the Room

I recently posted about fireworks and the devastation they cause, illustrating the post with a tragic picture of countless dead birds on a city street following new year fireworks. It is well documented that fireworks terrify all the living individuals … Continue reading →

Posted in Global disasters, Terminology | Tagged animal rights, badgers, balloons, bears, consumer demand, death, decency, fireworks, foxes, harm, insects, litter, littering, pest, pests, pigeons, poison, pollution, rabbits, rodents, slaughter, speciesism, strays, toxins, trap, vandalism, vermin, wedding doves | 3 Comments

Learning lessons

Posted on September 19, 2020 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Recently, someone died; someone who was everything to me. ‘How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand… there is no going back? There … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, dairy, Health and plant based eating, Speciesism | Tagged advocacy, animal rights, breast milk, commodification, consumer demand, dairy, Grief, harm, health, heartbreak, human superiority, loss, misery, moral choices, motherhood, veganism | 23 Comments

Dress rehearsal for the apocalypse

Posted on March 29, 2020 by There's an Elephant in the Room

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 | 10 Comments

Property – what it means to be ‘owned’

Posted on February 25, 2020 by There's an Elephant in the Room

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 | 6 Comments

Veganism; ‘strict’ or ‘simple’ – a matter of perspective

Posted on January 4, 2020 by There's an Elephant in the Room

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

Thoughts about diluting the animal rights message

Posted on September 11, 2019 by There's an Elephant in the Room

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 | 4 Comments

Straight talking about ‘welfare regulations’

Posted on July 24, 2019 by There's an Elephant in the Room

It’s common to read on social media that because the writer of a comment claims to support ‘better welfare regulations’, they assert that whether or not they are vegan, they are doing something to help our victims that those of … Continue reading →

Posted in consumer demand, Terminology, welfare | Tagged animal rights, autonomy, better, code of practice, consumer, consumer confidence, consumer demand, experience, experiences, feelings, gassing, guidelines, inanimate objects, maceration, regulation, regulations, regulatory reform, right, rights, thumping, veganism, welfare, welfare organisations, welfare standards, well-being, wellbeing | 20 Comments

‘It’s time to re-evaluate our relationship with animals’ by Lesli Bisgould

Posted on July 16, 2019 by There's an Elephant in the Room

This is the first time I’ve shared a transcript as a blog, but this very special talk deserves to reach as wide an audience as possible. In this lecture, Ms Bisgould explains in compelling and rivetting detail, why legislation does … Continue reading →

Posted in property status, welfare | Tagged animal rights, Cruelty, fundamental interests, kinship, laws, legal, legal person, legally justifiable, legislation, Lesli Bisgould, morally justifiable, necessary, necessary suffering, person, property, property status, regulations, respect, suffering, unnecessary suffering | 9 Comments

Straight talking about ‘factory farming’

Posted on July 11, 2019 by There's an Elephant in the Room

There seems to be some sort of blind spot in our collective consciousness about the term ‘factory farming’ and all the various types of *CAFO in which our numerous species of victims are incarcerated. For a start, the creating of … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, FAQ, Global disasters, Terminology | Tagged animal agriculture, animal rights, CAFO, ecological disaster, environmental destruction, ethical, factory, factory farming, family farm, farming, feed conversion ratio, health, humane, locally raised, organic farm, planetary collapse, planetary destruction, welfare | 9 Comments

Talking about weather, fruit and vegetables

Posted on June 18, 2019 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Reading the daily litany of the disasters that we humans are wreaking on our dying planet through our irresponsible actions, my attention was snagged by news of the storm-wrought crop failure and the resulting declaration of a ‘natural emergency’ in … Continue reading →

Posted in Global disasters, Uncategorized | Tagged animal agriculture, animal rights, berries, climate, climate change, climate emergency, France, fruit, natural disaster, planetary destruction, potatoes, tatties, vegan, veganism, vegetables | 2 Comments