No matter how old we happen to be, or how enmeshed we are in our more comfortable belief systems, we are never too old to gather new information — and we are never too old to make better decisions based upon the same. If you are determined to avoid unfamiliar facts and unpopular truths — […]
My dear Friends, as much as you would like to believe otherwise, if you did not “demand” the violent assault of farmed animals by paying someone else to do the farming, exploiting, enslaving and killing of them, then the milk & dairy industry would cease supplying the flesh & secretions produced by that exploitation. More […]
Says who? Says us humans, of course — a species that is so arrogantly homeocentric that it is not only brazenly rationalizing the horrific atrocities it is currently committing against vast populations of farmed animals, but is also willfully destroying its own planet of origin at an alarming rate – and knowingly taking the majority […]
Not that long ago in the United States, it was legal for an African-American to be owned by a white American … Not that long ago in the United States, it was legal for married women to be sexually subjugated by their husbands and for all women seen as legally “inferior” to all men … […]
I’m curious — Why do you give thanks for engaging in a practice that causes so much suffering? Why do you give thanks for engaging a cruelty-laden choice that is completely unnecessary to make? Why do you give thanks for a decision that flows completely contrary to your own values of justice & decency? Why […]
As well-intended and as socially active as you might be, it is impossible to be a powerful “animal rights activist” while simultaneously supporting a system that enslaves, abuses and murders animals. Maybe you are rescuing strays from the streets & maybe you are liberating the inmates of fur farms & maybe you are petitioning against […]
I’m sorry, but there really is no possible way for you to truly “love animals” while you are financially supporting the industry that is systematically imprisoning them, abusing them, mutilating them, raping them and ultimately murdering them. Now you might indeed truly love your dog or your cat (or dogs or cats in general — […]
(also heard as “But animals eat meat, and humans are animals too.”) Please allow me to immediately concede that lions do indeed kill other animals and that lions do indeed eat meat. Of course, this makes perfect sense, as lions, unlike humans, are obligate carnivores. Lions eat other animals for need — whereas humans do […]
Actually, the pyramidal “food chain” mentioned here is an arbitrary concept — invented by humans — that does not exist in nature. Indeed, in reality there is no “food chain” to climb at all. Instead, nature reflects an interconnected web of mutual interdependence that mandates that all species evidence an innately understood respect for life. […]
Actually, the probability is much higher that the exact opposite will come true … The Worldwatch Institute (a think-tank that analyzes interdisciplinary environmental data from around the world) noted that meat consumption is a highly inefficient use of grain — grain which would be far better utilized if consumed directly by humans. Indeed, every day […]
This argument really makes no sense whatsoever … The reason why humans raise and “harvest” animals like cows & pigs & chickens is because they are docile beings who are primarily (if not solely) herbivorous. As such, they pose absolutely no threat to us humans now, nor would they pose any threat to us if […]
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