The drug Premarin is made from the urine of pregnant horses. Mares are cruelly confined and subjected to invasive procedures throughout their pregnancy only to have their colts taken away from them after birth. This perversion of the reproductive cycles of female horses produces a harmful drug that is marketed to women by convincing them [...]
“When I look at animals held captive by circuses, I think of slavery. Animals in circuses represent the domination and oppression we have fought against for so long. They wear the same chains and shackles.”- Dick Gregory Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
Note from the editor: the purpose of including this article is not to defend PETA’s campaigns which exploit female bodies, but rather to call attention to the incongruity of the feminist who is not vegan since animal agriculture is built upon the exploitation of the female animal and her reproductive system. The following essay is [...]
“We have enslaved the rest of animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.” ~ William Ralph Inge Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
The following essay is by Patrick Battuello of Albany Animal Rights. All great social reform movements share a common thread: the battle against irrational persecution. The notion that African-Americans, women, homosexuals, and sentient animals are somehow less than, has formed the basis for domination by one group over another. These movements have been linked through [...]
“There are important parallels between speciesism and sexism and racism in the elevation of white male rationality to the touchstone of moral worth. The arguments European colonialists used to legitimate exploiting Africans – that they were less than human and inferior to white Europeans in ability to reason – are the very same justifications humans [...]
“The parallels between the enslavement of animals and humans are innumerable and exist on many levels; they are built around the same basic relationship between oppressor and oppressed, master and slave….The parallels between the treatment of blacks and animals are not mere coincidence, but rather a map to both the psyche of the oppressor and [...]
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“Speciesism and human slavery are similar in that in all cases animals and enslaved humans have a basic interest in not being treated as things and yet are treated as things on the basis of morally irrelevant criteria. To deny animals this basic right simply because they are animals is like saying that we should [...]