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Tag Archives: decency
Looking at language: Pests
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 Addressing resistance to change, 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
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Translations of common expressions: ‘Grass-fed lamb, half price!’
This was a promotion by a supermarket, heard recently in a TV ad break. With a great deal encapsulated in very few words, it’s a cynical bit of mind-bending although there was a time I wouldn’t have realised; that’s the art … Continue reading
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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The importance of words: talking turkey
The bizarre idea of ‘pardoning’ turkeys at the festival known as Thanksgiving has popped into my head several times in recent days. Even disregarding the cultural gap arising from my Scottish heritage, it’s such a strange concept, to cause a sentient … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals
Tagged conscience, Cruelty, decency, ego, harm, honest, honesty, human superiority, humble, humility, justice, pardon, pardoning, respect, right, sincere, sincerity, slaughterhouse, thanksgiving, truth, turkey, turkeys, vegan, veganism, victims, violence, violent, wrong
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‘Humane’ and other fantasies
When we use products derived from others, we can’t bear to think of harm being done to these gentle individuals who do not share our species and whom we have caused to exist and have confined for our use. Oh goodness no, … Continue reading
Posted in Awakening to veganism, Sentience
Tagged cheese, Chickens and eggs, commodification, consumer demand, Cruelty, dairy, decency, harm, human superiority, humane, justice, milk, nonviolence, resources, sentience, slaughter, speciesism, violence
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Thoughts on the gift that is life
Life itself is considered by many – if not most – humans to be the greatest gift there is, referred to as such by poets and writers throughout history. Even those of us who have no religious beliefs, consider that being alive … Continue reading
On trying to be vegan
I’ve seen it so often, ‘I’m trying to go vegan but I’m not there yet’. When I read or hear that, it tells me that the author simply doesn’t ‘get it’ …. yet. It tells me that I need to try harder to … Continue reading
Posted in Awakening to veganism
Tagged awakening, consumer demand, decency, diet, health, humane, judgement, vegan, veganism, vegetarianism, violence
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‘Suffering’; a word we use without thought
How can it be that we use words to protect ourselves from feeling, from connecting with the reality of the world? My thoughts strayed in this direction when I was reading a piece earlier that mentioned the word ‘suffering’. Later, … Continue reading
Posted in Awakening to veganism, Terminology
Tagged consumer demand, decency, ethics, harm, human superiority, slaughter, suffering, Torture, truth, vegan, veganism, violence
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Single issues and me
There is much written about single issues and petitions. The two go hand in hand. It’s a hot topic and I’m not going to wade into the debate. If you read this and feel moved to seek to justify your … Continue reading
Posted in Abolition vs Welfare, Single Issue Campaigns
Tagged Chickens and eggs, commodification, consumer demand, dairy, decency, ethics, harm, human superiority, milk, moral choices, nonviolence, petitions, resources, respect, sentience, Single Issue Campaigns, speciesism, truth, vegan, veganism, violence, welfarism
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The way we were, or maybe just the way I was?
Today as I read the usual Facebook posts and comments, I find myself wondering, as I frequently do, about the way we were before we were vegan. In my own case, this line of thought often leads me to frustration … Continue reading
Posted in Awakening to veganism
Tagged advocacy, decency, ethics, extremism, harm, human superiority, humane, justice, nonviolence, petitions, sentience, Single Issue Campaigns, vegan, veganism, violence
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