Consent?

 If she has to be tied down, is she consenting?

Intersectional vegans

 I am all for other causes. Particular children’s rights. I’m anti racism, sexism, ageism, the lot. But I am not an intersectional vegan because that makes veganism human-centric….as usual. Animals need undiluted attention on their plight because all isms and schisms are BECAUSE of humans in the first place. Animal rights needs to be purely about animals.

So, get offended. I don’t care…

The Invisible Ones

 

Vegan Cartoon

 

'I wish I had never been born'

One of the excuses vegans hear quite a lot is something along the lines of  'but at least the animals had a life, being born is better than not even being born at all'.

Being born into a life of misery - snatched from your mother within two days, being kept isolated to fatten up for veal or to become bacon or to grow up and live a few years as a dairy cow with all the implications of that (forcibly impregnated, baby taken from mother, hooked up to painful machinery to extract her milk meant for her calf, killed between 4 and 6 years when she could live a full life of between 18 and 20 years) etc, is not a life worth living.

Place this same argument on a dog bred for fighting. Or worse - a dog bred as dog fighting bait. Does anyone think that it's better that a dog is born simply to experience human betrayal and a life of pain and misery?

My final argument is that if anyone believes that being born is better than not being born at all - you wouldn't eat eggs. Why are you depriving a life being born at all when you eat eggs?

The hypocrisy of the arguments for animal agriculture are simply inane.

Speciesism - discrimination in favor of one species over another

Stab a dog in the throat: Animal murderer

Stab a pig in the throat: Circle of life

Cut a rhino's horns off: "Poacher scum! Hang him!"

Cut a bull's horns off: De-horning

Hack a dog's tail off: Demented animal torturer

Hack a lamb's tail off: Tail docking

Shove your fist up a cat's vagina and pump her full of semen: Perverted, twisted, animal molester

Shove your fist up a cow's vagina and pump her full of semen: Artificial insemination

Lock a cat in a cage for 5 months: Animal abuser

Lock a pig in a gestation crate for 5 months: Quality-assured pork

Kill a lion and pose in a photo with the corpse: Demonised across the world's media

Kill a pig and pose in a photo with the corpse: "Nice! What time does the BBQ start?"

Breed dogs for the sole purpose of slitting their throats: "What an abhorrent and sickening idea! Shut this place down!"

Breed turkeys for the sole purpose of slitting their throats: "They were bred for that purpose!"

Herd dogs into a gas chamber: Nazi

Herd pigs into a gas chamber: Food chain

Boil a dog alive: Savage; uncivilised; grotesque

Boil a lobster alive: Fine dining

Cut a fold of skin off a cat's back: Evil, twisted, mutilator of defenceless animals

Cut a fold of skin off a lamb's back: Mulesing

Snap a dove's neck: Psychopath

Snap a chicken's neck: Backyard, family farming

Shoot a dog in the head with a bolt gun: Monstrous barbarism

Shoot a cow in the head with a bolt gun: Humane

Free a dog from a Chinese dog meat farm: Hero

Free a rat from an experimentation lab: Terrorist

Abstain from eating cockroach vomit: Normal

Abstain from eating bee vomit: Extreme; too far

Condemn someone for harming dogs and cats: Kind-hearted, compassionate soul

Condemn someone for harming pigs and cows: Militant; religious fanatic; forcing your views on others

Campaign tirelessly against the dog meat trade: "Wonderful person! Keep up the fight!"

Campaign tirelessly against the chicken meat trade: "Idiot! You'll never change anything!"

Pack dogs onto a crowded truck for a gruelling 1,000 mile journey to be slaughtered abroad: "Animal torturer! Scum!"

Pack sheep onto a crowded truck for a gruelling 1,000 mile journey to be slaughtered abroad: Exporting goods

Kill a cat for a religious festival and say grace over the corpse: Uncivilised barbarians

Kill a turkey for a religious festival and say grace over the corpse: Christmas

Pull a parrot's feathers off: Sick individual

Pull a goose's feathers off: "Wow, these pillows are so comfy."

Strip a dog's skin off and wear it: Depraved; psychotic

Strip a cow's skin off and wear it: Fashion statement

Dog farm: "Demonic! The work of Satan himself!"

Sheep farm: "God put them here for us."

Kill a puppy and eat them: "Cowardly bastard! How could you harm a creature that has no chance fighting back against us!"

Kill a chicken and eat them: "We've evolved to be more dominant than they have. It's a dog-eat-dog world."

Hunt a species of large cat to near extinction: "Disgraceful! We must do everything in our power to conserve them!"

Fish a species of large fish to near extinction: "Tuna salad, anyone?"

Another excellent writing from George Martin

https://www.facebook.com/george.magicmartin