Anne Flaherty, a high school student once obsessed with marine mammals shares how her realizations about how humans treat animals requires actions both personal and community wide. In Animal Rights: […]
Aliens Among Us
When I was a kid, my family used to have movie nights, most often at my Uncle’s house. He had turned his garage into a movie theatre, complete with gold […]
Why I Don’t Eat Animals
We do not escape unharmed when we abuse other species. In justifying brutality, we expose our own; in seeking protection from the law and police from experiencing it ourselves, we betray a hopeless double standard, since it seems brutality is okay as long as we are not the ones suffering it. We do not elevate ourselves through this behaviour; we diminish our moral stature firstly in the brutality and secondly in the hypocrisy. There is also the cowardice in looking the other way while others do the dirty work of confinement and slaughter.
On Human Supremacy
“To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep’s perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is no more to the point […]
The Incoherence of Speciesism
“Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests […]
Food Choice and Global Depletion
There is an ‘Elephant in the Room’ that nobody in conservation or climate change is talking about, and it’s strange, bordering on insane… “What are all of the conservation groups […]
Meat: The Hunger Connection
A common myth about hunger is that it is caused by ‘scarcity’ and this perception very much depends on what you mean by the term. The idea that there is […]