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Tag Archives: climate crisis
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
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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
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Thoughts on the price of folly
Planet Earth is experiencing an escalation of extreme weather events. This escalation will continue for as long as we fail so utterly to grasp that one of the main causes – if not the main cause – is our own … Continue reading
Posted in Global disasters, Sentience
Tagged anger, animal agriculture, climate crisis, climate disaster, death, death row, disaster, disease, disgust, ecological disaster, fire, flood, Flooding, folly, images, sentience, slaughter
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‘Transparency in advertising’ – bring it on
As expected the animal use industries are mounting an increasingly bizarre pushback against the labelling of substances for which they long ago co-opted names. There are frequent media outcries about who has the right to use words like ‘milk’, ‘sausage’, … Continue reading
Posted in Addressing resistance to change, Global disasters
Tagged advertising, breast milk, burger, climate, climate change, climate crisis, climate emergency, dairy, diet, environment, environmental destruction, extreme weather, guidelines, health, healthy, marketing, milk, nutrition, plant based diet, plant-based, plant-based eating, plants, sausage, supermarket, sustainability, transparency, transparency in advertising, truth in advertising, vegan, veganism, weather
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