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Tag Archives: speciesism
On ‘personal choice’ and trying to be a ‘popular’ vegan
I’m sure we’ve all heard – or maybe even used at some time – the tired old assertion about ‘my personal choice’? My first hearing was when it was actually snarled at me through gritted teeth by a former … Continue reading
Posted in Awakening to veganism, consumer demand, Global disasters
Tagged animal rights, climate disaster, diet, disaster, ecological disaster, end of life as we know it, extremism, famine, fire, flood, Flooding, food shortage, human superiority, justice, moral choices, personal, personal choice, planetary collapse, plant-based, speciesism, truth, victims, violence, wildfires
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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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On taking things at face value – when ‘cute’ is a lie
I’ve written short posts in the past about my extreme discomfort at seeing animal videos on social media being presented as ‘cute’ and ‘adorable’ or ‘funny’ and ‘hilarious’. They are clearly very popular, very widely shared, and the comments range … Continue reading
Posted in Addressing resistance to change, Advocacy, Imagery
Tagged adorable, advertising, baby goats, baby monkey, circus, Cruelty, cute, cute monkey, cynical, exploitation, fainting goats, funny, mother, performance, performer, speciesism, staged, video, videos, viral, viral video, where is the mother
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Splitting hairs about speciesism
A post that I shared earlier described how a young deer named Pala, cared for on a sanctuary, had been shot and killed by a neighbour who was hunting. In the same way that I am not empowered to excuse … Continue reading
Posted in consumer demand, Harm reduction, Speciesism
Tagged antispeciesism, bacon, beef, betting, burger, deer, entertainment, flesh, hunter, hunting, own, owning, property, property status, silk, skins, speciesism, steak, steer, venison, wool
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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 Chickens and eggs, cooking, down, duck, duckpond, ducks, feathers, foie gras, hunting, shooting, slaughter, speciesism, sport, vegan, zoonotic, zoonotic disease
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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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About the words we use: ‘waste’
The concept of ownership of members of nonhuman species and every single one of the uses we make of them, stems from the ugly prejudice known as speciesism, a prejudice with which almost every one of us is indoctrinated from … Continue reading
Posted in Speciesism, Terminology
Tagged breast milk, Chickens and eggs, consumer demand, corpse, dog, food, leather, nonvegan items, ownership, respect, respectful, speciesism, waste, wasteful, wool
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Victims in the shadows: Horses
Every so often, outrage rocks social media about the slaughtering of horses, often those whose lives have been used, broken and discarded by the horse racing industry. Like all other nonvegan institutions grounded in our abuse of our fellow earthlings, … Continue reading
Thoughts about diluting the animal rights message
For a moment, please imagine if you will, that this page were to highlight something horrific being done to humans, something such as torture, sexual violation, or forced labour. Imagine an article describing men, women and children, families and friends … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Speciesism
Tagged animal rights, forced labour, Human rights, sexual violation, social media, speciesism, Torture, truth, victimisation, violation
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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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