3 results for month: 05/2015
We All Feel Love
The campaign We All Feel Love appeals to our innate ability to love others. We have been socially conditioned to believe that some (whether human or non-human) deserve more love than others. But love is subjective and we must not confuse personal feelings with cultural discrimination. Every being deserves to be free to live and love the way they want. By exploiting non-human animals, we deny them these most basic rights, and deep inside, we all know that this is wrong. None of us were born racist, sexist or speciesist - discrimination is a learned behavior. It is time for us all to unlearn, and to dismantle the system that overshadows our values.
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An Open Letter to Amazon Watch and their Supporters
By Lili Trenkova
Amazon Watch (AW) recently released a response to the inquiries they've been receiving as to why they are not addressing the leading cause of Amazon deforestation, which we know from a World Bank Publications study, is animal agriculture. While we're glad they are finally even mentioning the topic, we are nothing but underwhelmed and disappointed by their statements.
For starters, AW still does not acknowledge the fact that acre-for-acre animal agriculture is responsible for more deforested land than oil and gas extraction, dams, or infrastructure (roads). Livestock requires tremendously more land to live on, feed on and get ...
A Chance To Live
By Alyssa Berman
Recently, with the holidays and all of their implications looming, we set out on a mission to save a life, and in the end saved two. Though they weren't human, or furry and four legged, they mattered just as much to us. We found them in a filthy pen inside a live poultry market, crammed tightly in with thousands of others like them; their waste covering the cement floor, the rank smell of ammonia filling the air, mixed with the distinct and overpowering feeling of fear. As we waited, several of their friends were chosen: grabbed by their legs and carted upside down to the back room to have their throats slit. Then, the same rough ...