Imagine a world where rape is legal....

A wonderfully comprehensive post from Rishi Patel - http://facebook.com/Forourunspokenfriends:

Imagine for a minute that you live in a world where rape is legal; the norm and carried out on a daily basis all around you by the vast majority of men.

Imagine that you are an anti rape campaigner, dedicating your life to ending this atrocious, barbaric act of violence against women.

However, each and every time you speak out against it you are labelled as 'weird' 'extreme' 'closed minded' and belonging to a cult. Imagine that the 'justifications' you get from the masses for them raping women are the following:

'Lions tho...lions rape lionesses, are you gonna tell lions to stop'

'Nature tho, it happens in the jungle all the time'

'Animals rape other animals tho'

'It's been happening for thousands of years tho, what about cavemen tho?'

'Women were put here for us to rape them tho'

'If we don't rape them, they will take over and rape us tho'

'There are far more important issues in the word tho, kids are starving in Africa and you're worried about consent?'

'It's a personal choice tho'

'You're forcing your opinions on me tho'

'I respect your choice not to rape, why can't you respect my choice to do so, stop being so self righteous'

'It's just something we're gonna have to agree to disagree on'
'It feels good tho'

Non vegans - Are you appalled by the above? Outraged?

So am I. But, there is a difference.

Me and my fellow vegan activists are not just sickened when we hear rape being 'justified' by the above but also when we hear the rape, sexual exploitation, enslavement, torture, mutilation, branding, gassing, stabbing, de-horning, castration, bludgeoning and scalding of BILLIONS of our animal friends each year being 'justified' by the above 'arguments' from Carnists desperate to feed their addiction to animal products. Replace the words 'women' and 'rape' above with 'animals' and 'eat' and you have the arguments that we hear from non vegans each and every day.

These are the 'arguments' that me and my fellow vegan activists hear every day from non-vegan Carnists who attempt to justify being complicit in the daily torture, enslavement, rape and murder of over 150 BILLION animals each year in order to continue satisfying their own taste buds.

Why is it that when it comes to harming animals, putting them through a lifetime of hell, misery, pain and suffering all of sudden 'lions tho' 'we've been doing it for years tho' 'nature tho' and 'they were put here for us tho' seem to fly just fine for the masses? Why are you disgusted by the above arguments when they are used to justify the rape of humans but more than happy to put forward these very same arguments when it comes to trying to justify the rape, sexual exploitation and commodification of animals?

Are animals lives worth less than humans?

Do animals deserve less respect than humans?

Are we a superior species?

Do you think that it is not rape if you forcibly impregnate a female animal with a metal rod whilst they are restrained in a 'rape rack' trying to escape in order to forcibly impregnate them and then take their babies away from them and then shoot those babies in the head if they are male and then repeat the process year after year after year (meat and dairy industry practices)?

When you justify harming animals for your own personal pleasure, gluttony, greed and vanity with the above 'arguments' you sound just as pathetic to those seeking justice for animals as those who justify rape with the above 'arguments' sound to you.

Please, watch the short video below and share widely. This video has the potential to really start a huge shift in the way people view the horrific, sadistic manner with which we treat animals and expose the double standards and hypocrisy of non vegans.

 

Thanks George Martin and Aidan (Hayden) for sharing this video and initially writing about it. The coward that I am I was too scared at first to write this post.

Let's end The Animal Holocaust, the largest and longest running murder campaign in history with nothing else even coming close to it, in our lifetime.

 

The Friendly Activist - Seaspiracy: what you should know about fish, the ocean and more

I am very proud to have met a young man, Ali Tabrizi a couple of years ago. He was, at the time, presenting at the Birkbeck University who have a Friday evening sort of 'open mic' night where people can present things they feel passionate about.

Ali's talk that evening was an exploration and research into looking at alternative ways to consume food in order to minimise the destructivity that humans have ended up perpetuating upon this blue planet that we call home but treat like a rubbish tip.

He spoke of vegetarian, veganism and even opened up the subject of breatharianism. I was mesmerised by his compassion, not only towards the planet and the animals that live upon her, but also towards his fellow humans, even though we do what we do. He didn't come across as judgemental in any way, just hyper concerned for his and all beings future.

I spoke to him after his talk and I knew that here was a very real, caring, internally wonderful young man and I have since been watching his progress, his ever deepening journey into what appears to be the impossible - educating the human world to wake it up to what we are doing, what we are leaving to the next generations to have to deal with.

Please do watch his Seaspiracy: What you should know about fish, the ocean and more documentary here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLgkrQSRy9E

And follow his youtube channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClDFyunx_AJOzKr7fsuGSJw

And let's back him up, if not for ourselves, but for our children and their children.