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 […]
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Comments Off on Myth #57: “But animals don’t have the same rights.”
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 … […]
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Comments Off on Myth #58: “But eating animals is legal.”
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 […]
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Comments Off on Myth #59: “But I honor the animals I eat.”
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 […]
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Comments Off on Myth #60: “But I’m already an animal rights advocate.”
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 — […]
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Comments Off on Myth #61: “But I love animals.”
(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 […]
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Comments Off on Myth #62: “But lions eat meat.”
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. […]
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Comments Off on Myth #63: “But humans are at the top of the food chain.”
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 […]
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Comments Off on Myth #64: “But veganism will increase world hunger.”
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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Comments Off on Myth #65: “But if we don’t eat them, they will eat us.”
Even though quite a few people believe this myth to be true, it is actually nothing more than an arrogant fabrication of the human mind. Rest assured that farmed animals do not see themselves as mere “food” for any other being — certainly not us humans, and their obvious terror & fervent unwillingness to die […]
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Comments Off on Myth #66: “But veganism robs animals of their Purpose.”
Do you actually believe that purposefully breeding an animal makes it a slave to its breeder as soon as it is born? Do you actually believe that the many years of forced enslavement and manipulated breeding of unwilling animals means that the present-day offspring of those arrogant misdeeds are rightfully subject to imprisonment, pain, suffering […]
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Comments Off on Myth #67: “But humans created domestic breeds in the 1st place.”