Even Opus, like most of the rest of us, apparently has his weaker moments … And even Opus, also like most of the rest of us, has at least one species of animal that he doesn’t like. That having been said, it is NOT for us or Opus to adore or chersih or even like […]
Stab a dog in the throat and you’re an “animal murderer.” Stab a pig in the throat and it’s the “Circle of life” … Cut off a rhino’s horns and you’re a “scumbag poacher.” Cut off a cow’s horns and it’s just “De-horning” … Hack off a dog’s tail and you’re a “barbaric […]
No matter what one happens to believe about how the human brain evolved over the span of past epochs, it is hopefully now clear to most that it is more-than-unwise to cling to outdated habits of primitive barbarism — especially when those behaviors are killing our selves, killing others, and killing our planet … In […]
The math of meat is pretty simple, really — Killing some animals to eat their flesh + loving other animals as heartfelt companions = inevitably treating fellow humans the same way; loving the people we find to be “cute” or “nice” or otherwise sympathetic, while shunning or ridiculing or even killing the rest. Labeling certain […]
ummm … Let me see … I think I’ll choose extremism. “So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but rather what KIND of extremists we will be … Will we be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for Love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or will […]
“Let no one regard as light the burden of his or her ultimate responsibility. To the degree that we remain silent while so much ill-treatment of the innocent continues — while the moans of thirsty animals crammed into railway trucks remain unheard, while the cries of newborn calves & piglets torn from their mothers’ embrace […]
“The feeling that members of one’s own species deserve special moral consideration compared to members of other species is old and deep. Indeed, the only thing more strongly forbidden by our culture than killing people (outside acts of war — unfortunately) is eating people (even if they are already dead). And yet somehow most of […]
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