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Want to Kill Fewer Animals? Give Up Eggs

By Julia Galef | August 11, 2011 | Comments44


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If you’re bothered by the idea of killing animals for food, then going vegetarian might seem like an obvious response. But if you want your diet to kill as few animals as possible, then eschewing meat is actually quite an indirect, and sometimes ...

"The animals had rights -- the right of man's protection, the right to live, the right to multiply, the right to freedom, and the right to man's indebtedness -- and in recognition of these rights the Lakota never enslaved an animal and spared all life that was not needed for food and clothing. For the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them."

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"Turner has contributed and started a number of different philanthropic
organizations, and said he intends to start a new foundation to help save the
great apes of Africa, which are on the verge of extinction."

http://tinyurl.com/3tcl3cp

You can thank him here:

http://tinyurl.com/5bu9pj

Ted Turner quote from a transcript of a talk with R. Nader:

"If we can learn to stop killing the great ...

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com ... ?hpt=wo_r1

Draft Bill of Animal Rights

Following is Responsible Policies for Animals' (RPA's) proposed text of a Bill of Animal Rights, to be ratified as an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America when sufficient understanding obtains. In the long struggle to promote unalienable equal individual autonomy, ecology, and dignity rights of all animals, RPA welcomes endorsements so the final ratified Bill will have the same capacity to eliminate tyranny and to protect ...

Apparently there are now piggy banks made of the whole outside of a piglet. So it's much more of a reminder that a formerly living animal has died and you are now using its body.

The analogy between the animal specimen and the commodity is oddly echoed in a recent product advertisement by the internet retailer ‘thecheeky.com’: real taxidermied piglets turned into actual piggy banks, hollowed out rather than stuffed, then finished off with coin ...

Ida Hammer critiques Gary Francione's theory of animal rights:
http://www.veganideal.org/content/anima ... -principle

The author states in a call for a more radical vision of liberation:
"As just one piece of the structure of human supremacy, abolishing property status of other animals and insisting on equal consideration in applying the humane-treatment principle won't eliminate the structure of oppression."

Ida Hammer make a powerful critique of Friends of Animals' speciesist and patronizing views of "domesticated" nonhuman animals:
http://www.veganideal.org/content/socia ... estication

Excerpt:
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Most pets are classified as so-called "domesticated animals." The root term "domestic" comes from the Latin word for house. As such, it's no wonder that the "domestication" of other animals relates to the social construction of our inability to understand these other animals as capable of ...

Check out www.YouCanHelpStopThis.com for a video and pamphlet for activists to promote veganism and anti-speciesism.

Here's the blog post from LOVE announcing the release of these excellent outreach tools:
http://www.loveallbeings.org/blog/new-v ... stop-this/

http://www.abolitionist-online.com/arti ... yser.shtml

Beyond Pacifism
By Daniel Peyser
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On the matter of violence, the animal liberation movement is nothing if it is not confused. It wants to have its cake and eat it too: abolition without any sort of violence or armed struggle whatsoever. This is simply not going to happen. The absolutist position of pacifism taken by some in our ranks is one of comfort, and ultimately ...