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Tag Archives: brutality
Living in a land of make-believe
Today I find myself reminiscing, mentally retracing paths of the clouded past, trying to find the point at which I lost the warm feeling of kinship with all other species of animal that so many of us experience in childhood. … Continue reading
Posted in Awakening to veganism, Nonhuman family members
Tagged awakening, bloodbath, breast milk, brutality, cats, chickens, commodification, companions, consumer demand, Cruelty, dairy, dogs, eggs, fantasy, harm, health, humane, imagination, love, make-believe, milk, oppression, resources, respect, sentience, slaughter, speciesism, truth, veganism, victims, violence, welfare
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Obscene phrase of the day: ‘bred for eating’
Originally posted 1 September 2014, revised and links updated 31 January 2018 ‘bred for eating’ (variation: ‘bred for food’) ‘But surely you realise that they were ‘bred for eating‘?’ It’s a sentence frequently uttered triumphantly by those seeking to justify eating … Continue reading
Posted in Addressing resistance to change, Terminology
Tagged brutality, commodification, consumer demand, decency, enslavement, entitlement, harm, human superiority, humane, justice, moral choices, necessity, ownership, resources, respect, sentience, speciesism, superiority, Torture, truth, vegan, veganism, victims, violation, violence, vulnerable
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‘Processing’; the brutality we deny
Returning home from a nearby town, my journey is punctuated today, as every day, by chicken death trucks heading to a slaughterhouse, a house of slaughter; the ‘processing plant’ as they euphemistically term it in these parts, a foul industrial … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Awakening to veganism
Tagged awakening, brutality, chickens, commodification, consumer demand, harm, health, rights, sentience, slaughter, vegan, 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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The tyrant in the mirror
Every day in the media we are outraged by the behaviour of tyrants and despots. We declare our support for those whose basic rights are being denied. We are horrified by brutality and by senseless killing. We are sickened when … Continue reading
Users and losers – looking at ‘exploitation’
Originally published 1 September 2015, updated 22 January 2019 The word ‘exploitation’ is frequently used in connection with our behaviour towards other animal species. Like many others, ‘exploitation’ is a word we seem to save specially for this circumstance, perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Awakening to veganism, Terminology
Tagged animal lovers, breast milk, brutal, brutality, cow, dairy, eggs, exploitation, harm, health, hen, honesty, labour, loser, pig, sentience, sentient, sheep, slaughter, slaughterhouse, speciesism, user, vegan, violence, violent, words
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