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Tag Archives: slaughter
‘To finish’; looking at language
‘Finishing’ is yet another of the words with which the animal use industry glosses over the monstrous activities of our species. ‘Finishing’ is part of the practice of making victims out of gentle and defenceless individuals for nonvegan consumers to … Continue reading
Posted in Terminology
Tagged consumer, consumer demand, euphemism, feel-good, finish, finished, finishing, glossy, sentient, slaughter, slaughterhouse, welfare, welfare standards
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Thinking of ducks
Ducks. As a child I used to love visiting duckponds. It was a Sunday treat and few children of my generation in my part of the world haven’t been enchanted by ‘going to feed the ducks’, clutching a bag of … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Statistics, Victims in the shadows
Tagged cooking, down, duck, duckpond, ducks, eggs, feathers, foie gras, shooting, slaughter, speciesism, sport, vegan
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Looking at language: Cull
Cull. We see the word applied increasingly to the mass killing of numerous species; to deer and to foxes and to seals, to pigeons, crows and even swans. The word is in the news at the moment, being applied to … Continue reading
Posted in Speciesism, Terminology
Tagged animal agriculture, badgers, cull, environmental destruction, habitat destruction, nonveganism, profit, slaughter
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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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Victims in the shadows: emus
This series of short blogs hopes to shine a spotlight onto ways that humans exploit other creatures for financial gain, ways about which the majority of consumers are unaware. This is not intended to shock; it’s intended to illustrate and … Continue reading
Posted in Speciesism, Victims in the shadows
Tagged butcher, consumer demand, consumers, emu, emu oil, emus, feathers, flay, flesh, leather, oil, oppression, plucking, prejudice, shoppers, slaughter, slaughterhouse, speciesism
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Chicken executions at night
Today I did a taxi run in the early hours of the morning, passing the slaughterhouse at about 03.45 as the pre-dawn glinted on wet black roads, and again at 07.00 in the rain-drenched grey light of day. Approaching the … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, consumer demand
Tagged agony, animal lovers, blood, chicken, chickens, consumer, consumer demand, consumers, infants, miasma, processing plant, shoppers, slaughter, slaughterhouse, stench, terror
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A brief thought about words: euthanasia
A recent comment sought to amend my terminology when I described the killing of Emma the shih tzu as ‘slaughter’. The terms ‘put to sleep’ and euthanasia’ were not only preferred, but my use of the word ‘slaughter’ was condemned. … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Terminology
Tagged burial, death, Emma, euphemism, euthanasia, execution, killing, kindness, language, put to sleep, shih tzu, slaughter, speciesism, Terminology, veganism, words
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Being property – what it means
There’s a story that’s causing outrage in the media at the moment, about a healthy dog named Emma who was slaughtered and cremated so that her ashes could be buried along with her deceased owner. The comments were predictably scathing, … Continue reading
Posted in Nonhuman family members, property status
Tagged animal rights, betrayal, burial, consumers, Cruelty, dog, Emma, funeral, healthy, indoctrination, law, laws, legal, legislation, Nonhuman family members, outrage, pets, possession, possessions, property, property status, shih tzu, slaughter, speciesism, vegan, veganism, welfare
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Ending life as we know it – humanity on the edge of the abyss
Every day I see posts using fanciful estimates about the number of individuals our species slaughters each year. There are even suggestions (often circulated by those seeking to claim credit – and frequently, donations) that slaughter numbers are falling. They … Continue reading
Posted in Global disasters, Statistics
Tagged 6th extinction, abyss, bees, climate, climate change, commodification, consumer demand, existence, global warming, habitat destruction, male chicks, marine destruction, planetary collapse, planetary destruction, silk worms, sixth extinction, slaughter, slaughterhouse, species extinction, Statistics, vegan, veganism, victims
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With friends like these …
During this month of the media year when veganism is widely misrepresented as a dietary fad and a menu choice that we can ‘try out for size’, there are several articles and interviews circulating where celebrities are given air time, … Continue reading
