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.

 

Animals aren't safe in or out of the EU

I voted remain. And the main reason for that was because I believed that (and still do) animals fare slightly better under the scrutiny of the masses, the general public, of a large European community.

Around 80 percent of UK animal welfare laws originate from the EU. None of which are in any way perfect, or even, really, acceptable – not to vegans or to anyone who really truly loves animals. But it’s better than NOT having any of those EU welfare laws in place.

So, I was horrified when I read what the latest EU dinner menu was on the 28^th June:

:: Quail and green bean salad with a crispy dried fruit pastry triangle;

:: Poached veal tenderloin with seasonal baby vegetables;

:: Strawberries.

Quail and veal?

Quail has recently been outed for being Factory Farming’s Most Recent and Smallest Victims. Some countries, including the UK, have Codes of Practice that advise cage heights to be 20cm. But these are not legal requirements and no country has particular laws for the welfare of quail.

20cm. 20 CM!

These birds are ‘beak trimmed’ - Beak trimming is particularly cruel as underneath the outer casing runs a system of blood vessels and nerve endings. These enable birds to use their beaks in much the same way we use our fingers - to pick up food, to touch and sense, feel and explore. In effect trimming beaks is similar to a human having their fingertips amputated.

Please read the link to the article that outlines what these tiny little birds suffer:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sue-cross/quail-are-factory-farming_b_2315829.html

And of course veal.

The ‘by product’ of the dairy industry – the industry where mothers and babies are abused in the most horrific of ways for our greed for milk and cheese etc.

In the UK there are, interestingly, stricter rules than in general in the EU for veal production – which actually has meant that the UK barely bothers with veal production at all. So calves are simply killed and thrown out. For veal to be veal, in the eyes of the discerning baby torturers and killers, the meat of the calves must be pale and tender. It is baby meat after all.

Standards of welfare in the EU is worse than in the UK – and can vary considerably. Although animals experience social contact and greater freedom of movement than in the crates that they were once legally kept in, they are still kept on slatted flooring with no comfortable resting area. EU law also allows the calves to be fed on a liquid milk diet and the roughage provided may not be of an appropriate type or sufficient quantity to allow normal development of the digestive system. This feeding regime helps to ensure the production of the ‘desired’ pale flesh, since the law allows haemoglobin levels (iron) in calves blood to fall below those that safeguard against anaemia.

So, basically, babies that are deliberately made ill and weak before they are killed.

And it is veal and quail that is served at these functions.

We have a lot of work cut out for us – ‘us’ being those who actually, really, truly love animals. All animals.

 

Are vegans pro-life? For real?

I got to thinking, after having read a post on Facebook where someone was upset at an argument they had been having with someone else who happened to ask what their view on abortion was. Their argument ended up being a slanging match, where swallowing sperm etc became the red herring and the abortion issue ended up being the elephant in the room.

The responses that the upset vegan got was a whole lot more of sarcastic commentary that she was advised to give. Or just plain insults to deliver.

This went on for a while. In the meantime I started to wonder myself about this. And finally, I had to put my own thoughts up. I avoided the sperm/blow job aspect of it - it was getting a thorough *cough* beating without me adding to it. My comment was:

One of the most compelling and strong things that us vegans use as an argument for eating plants over meat, is the fact that plants don't have a brain or a nervous system. At 5 weeks, a foetus's brain and nervous system starts to develop. I think that this fact requires thought....

Now, either this has indeed caused thought or I have just killed the thread and everyone has scattered and re-hidden their heads in the sand.

To me, the issue DOES require thought. Surely, as vegan's, are we not pro life for all life?

It seems not. If it's inconvenient to us, then many of us compromise. Massively.

That's all.

No meat, no milk, no wool, no silk,
No eggs, no honey, my choice, my money..
No shooting, no snares, no coursing of hares,
No circus, no zoo, no rodeo too..
No fur, no leather, no saddle, no tether,
No eggs, no fish, no cruelty's my wish..
No feathers, no suede, no ivory trade,
No poison of 'pests', no animal tests..
No killing, no using, my values, my choosing,
No cage, no pen, no veal crate again..
No hunting, no breeding, no hurting, no bleeding,
No feedlot, no kill floor, no tail dock, no declaw..
No blood, no bones, no screams, no moans,
No suffering, no pain, their freedom, my gain!
~ By EVOLVE! Campaigns ~