Tag Archives: brutality

Living in a land of make-believe

Posted on March 30, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

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 | 7 Comments

Obscene phrase of the day: ‘bred for eating’

Posted on January 31, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

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 | 7 Comments

‘Processing’; the brutality we deny

Posted on October 29, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

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 | 2 Comments

A brief thought on the hijacking of ‘humane’

Posted on May 18, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

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 | 13 Comments

The tyrant in the mirror

Posted on June 3, 2016 by There's an Elephant in the Room

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 →

Posted in Advocacy | Tagged brutality, consumer demand, despotism, justice, resources, respect, sentience, slaughter, tyranny, vegan, veganism, violence | 4 Comments

Users and losers – looking at ‘exploitation’

Posted on September 1, 2015 by There's an Elephant in the Room

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 save specially for this circumstance, perhaps without truly considering … 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 | 10 Comments