http://animalrights101.tumblr.com/post/63025999261/animal-rights-terms-to-knowGo home PETA, you are drunk.
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I don’t know whether I want to go to this club called “Animal Advocates” or not. They sound like speciesism advocates to me because all they do is help out shelter dogs and cats… But I could join and see if they would do anything for other animals. Hmm
Goddammit PETA. You can tell she's a PETA by the fact that her home page has their mascot as the mouse representative.
What really bugs me about the Chick-fil-a advertizing is that it assumes the cows would willingly point humans toward eating another sentient being to save themselves. I just think that real cows wouldn’t throw another living being/species under the bus like that (I think they’d be smart enough to suggest plant foods).
The humans that created these ads give agency to the cows (a cruel-intentioned agency) while erasing the agency of the animal they are selling. It’s sick that the premise of the whole ad campaign is a fight for survival, a competition to make the other animal appear more appetizing.
And it’s disturbing that the ads make USE of animals’ awareness of their situation (eventual death and consumption), but no one takes it seriously enough to think, gee, maybe EVERY animal would rather not be eaten at all? No no. These ads aren’t actually SERIOUSLY positing such agency and will to live. That would be absurd!
But it isn’t simply an ad ploy, it’s representative of deep cultural speciesism, consumerism, and cut-throat competition.
I do know most animals would rather not be eaten. Its a simple matter of I DON'T GIVE A DAMN.
And wow, they think cows are smart. Cows. Smart.
THE FACT THAT THERE IS SPECIESISM IN THIS VEGAN HOUSEHOLD REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS.
There are no words. It just reminds me of Christian Fundamentalists raging about "ATHEISM IN THIS CHRISTIAN HOUSEHOLD!"
Lions are king of the jungle?
I don’t remember how this idea came to me, but it seems odd.
First off, Googling “lions aren’t king of the jungle” tells you that most lions live in open savannahs, which means tigers should hold the true title.
Secondly, and actually the main idea that got me thinking was: why the fuck do humans think there has to be a ruler for everything?
Lions and tigers may be some of the biggest predators, but it certainly doesn’t make them above the other animals. They’re all part of the same system. If the smaller animals ceased to exist, so would the bigger ones.
Yes, I understand that “king of the jungle” is a silly phrase that shouldn’t be taken so seriously. But for some reason, carnists (often male) like to compare themselves to lions and tigers. They see lions as majestic, powerful, and dominating. Many humans want to be synonymous with being the biggest, fastest, toughest and simply the best.
Predatory animals have no intention of asserting dominance upon their prey. They’re doing what every other animal is trying to do. Survive. Certainly they do it without taking more than what they need. Humans don’t fall in that category. We’re not made to be predatory animals, and we often take more than we need.
We’re living in a time when treating animals as food and objects is unnecessary for the majority, but is still rampant because “mmmm bacon”. If it’s not a requirement for our survival, then I submit to the court that it is cruel and unjust to treat any sentient being with any less respect than the person reading this post deserves.
Domination is oppression. Everything that I’ve learned as a child is that control over someone isn’t an admirable trait. The problem is that we’re also taught that other animals aren’t someone. We’re taught that even though we accept domesticated animals in our homes, they belong to us. If you oppose to that last sentence because you love your companion animal, but are not vegan, dig down deep and ponder why you think pigs are less important than dogs.
Fuck oppression. Fuck discrimination. Fuck carnists.
In conclusion, lions aren’t the king of the jungle.
PETA Grunt responds to silly old turn of phrase with five paragraph essay on how I and others like me are very bad people for eating what we like.
lord crunkington III @postcrunk
we are the animals that forgot we were animals
You are the idiot who forgot he was an idiot.
Combating speciesism has to be done in series. It seems that humans need to be introduced to justice in small doses lest they get scared, even among our own species. I speak of American history because it is the culture I grew up in and know the most about. First, it was Native American rights (still under contention), then African-American rights (still under contention), then women’s rights (still under contention), and currently LGBTQA+ rights (still. under. contention.).
India has started with granting personhood to dolphins, whales, and porpoises. Australia and New Zealand have done the same with nonhuman apes. Perhaps globalizing those rights is our first baby step. It is hard for those who already support all encompassing animal rights. They all want to connect with each other. However, our scarce numbers usually restrict this to public social networks where people who need baby steps are prematurely exposed to our so-called “extreme” ideas and are scared off before any progress can be made. Unfortunately, not much can be done about this issue. Without unity and communication, there is no movement.
If anything is to be taken away from my ramble, it is this. Whale, dolphin, porpoise, and ape rights are our key to the general public as well as the global political sphere. They are humanity’s first baby step.
So do explain what you, oh brave Animal Liberty Activist, have done for your so called screed. I find Dolphin rights particularly hilarious given how rapey Dolphins are.
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I think the nuts and bolts of the matter (speaking of speciesism in general) is that these animals do not belong to us. They belong to themselves, just as we belong to ourselves.
And we play God every single day of our lives in every facet of our lives. It’s going to come back to us, one way or another.
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No, no, no. And no.
So, what, are the chickens going to grab one of the Ku Klux Klan's death rays and go on the atta-
Inspiration for a Syfy original movie just hit me; Revenge of the Chickens.
