Speciesism
Thoughts About Diluting the Animal Rights Message
The victims of our food habits have no one but us to tell the truth about the grave injustice of the ordeal to which we routinely subject them. We owe that truth to them as they queue in the milking parlours and hatcheries and slaughterhouses; and we owe that truth to every single member of our own species.
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Op-Ed: Are We Really so Different from Other Species?
As a biologist who documents new species and behavior in remote places, from sinkholes in Venezuela to treetops in Borneo, I see abundant signs that the future is grim. A recent United Nations report confirmed the terrible truth: One million species on Earth are threatened with extinction.
Read MoreArtifishal: New Film Asks, Have We Reached the End of Wild?
That salmon sitting in your neighborhood grocery store’s fish counter won’t look the same to you after watching Artifishal, a new film from Patagonia. Artifishal looks specifically at how fish hatcheries and fish farms threaten wild salmon populations, which in turn has ecosystem-wide effects — all because of our desire to eat these culturally significant species.
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Why Do We Think We Own The Earth?
For far too long, humanity has regarded itself as ‘outside’ Nature. We think we are exceptional. Our ‘intelligence’ rarely produces long-lasting benefits to anything but ourselves. There is only one thing that makes humanity truly exceptional; our desire to own and control everything, partnered by our horrible ability to destroy what we try to control.
Read More Inter-species Love…
Whether you need a reminder about how humans are not the only animals capable (and in need of) love, or if you just need a quick dose of heartfelt warmth and hope, then this little video should do the trick.
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Imperial Narrative Control Has Five Distinct ElementsThe powerful will keep creating the world's worst problems until ordinary people use their superior numbers to make them stop. Ordinary people don’t use their superior numbers to stop the powerful because the powerful are continuously manipulating people’s understanding of what’s going on. […]- The Triumph of DeathThe global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates, and mass death is normalized. […]
- Transhumanism and the MetaverseThe promoters of the transhumanist Metaverse describe it as not only good, but inevitable. It may seem so, given that it is an extension of an age-old trend. But hopefully by making its underlying myths and assumptions visible, we can exercise a conscious choice in embracing or refusing it. […]
- Buckle Up! The Arctic’s SizzlingThe Arctic is turning into a dream come true for doomsayers. It’s heating way too fast! Nostradamus is dancing in the street. […]
- Assange Is Doing His Most Important Work YetBritish Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorized the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to be tried under the Espionage Act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of any publisher or journalist, anywhere in the world, who reports inconvenient truths about the US empire. […]
- Forget Liberating Ukraine – We First Need To Liberate Our MindsBecause we in the West are the strongest tribe on the planet, we are also the most deluded, the most propagandized, and the most dangerous. […]
- Hedges: America’s Gun FetishThere will be no gun control, not only because of the gun lobby and a corrupt political class, but because for many white Americans the idea of the gun is the only power they have left. […]
- Russia-Ukraine War: George Bush’s Admission of His Crimes in Iraq Was No ‘Gaffe’The former president’s confusion over the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine should lead to western soul-searching, not mirth. […]
- India – Birds Drop Out of the Sky, People DieDeath by humid heat in India equates to the tolling of bells, slowly, repeatedly, as black pennants flutter along the distant horizon. Another one has died and another, and one more, and another and another, as the monotonous tolling becomes an atrocious irritation. […]
- They’re Worried About The Spread Of Information, Not DisinformationWe are not being protected by a compassionate alliance of corporations and governments who only want us to know the truth, we are being manipulated and oppressed by an oligarchic empire that wants us to believe lies. That’s why they’re locking up Assange, that’s why they’re censoring the internet, that’s why they’re filling our minds with propaganda, and that’s why we can’t let them win. […]