On Nonhuman Slavery

"We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves."   - Donald Watson

Month: February, 2012

Animal Equality Investigation: Slaughtering Pigs

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If This Isn’t Motivating Enough, What Is?

“Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn’t motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the [...]

Arguing For Animal Rights In the Victorian Era

The following is an excerpt from Animals’ Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress written in 1894 by Henry S. Salt. …I am aware that many of my contentions will appear very ridiculous to those who view the subject from a contrary standpoint, and regard the lower animals as created solely for the pleasure and [...]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Nothing Can Ever Be Seen In Quite The Same Way Again

“At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again [...]

Speciesism and Veganism: Transcending Politics and Religion by Angel Flinn and Dan Cudahy

The following essay, written by Angel Flinn and Dan Cudahy, comes from the Gentle World website. Although this may come as a surprise to some, there are ethical vegans across the political spectrum and in every major religion. Veganism transcends politics and religion because it is based on the simple matter of rejecting a particular [...]

Let Animals Amaze Us – by James McWilliams

The following is an excerpt from Let Animals Amaze Us by James McWilliams. “Humans love animals because we empathize with them. And we empathize with them because, like us, they are sentient beings capable of feeling pleasure and pain. I became a vegan the day I watched a video of a calf being born on [...]

Property, Violence, And The Roots Of Oppression by Bob Torres

The following is an excerpt from Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights by Bob Torres Animals are nothing more than the means to the end of profit in contemporary capitalist production. Their particularity, their interests in not suffering, their desires to be free and to live as beings in the world are [...]

Living According To Your Own Values

“I think the way to reach people is to connect with the values they already have. I think that’s key. I always say that I’m not asking people to live according to MY values; I’m urging people to live according to THEIRS. It’s a very important distinction to make.” – Colleen Patrick Goudreau, from an [...]