So today we’re going to talk about the differences between a SANCTUARY and a SLAUGHTERHOUSE because I’ve come across people (in denial) who want ONE to apply to the OTHER and seem reallyreally confused and say something that only applies to a SANCTUARY but not to a SLAUGHTERHOUSE contradicting their “beliefs” (ie., spreading misinformation or propagandized disinformation because NOT abusing animals is “extreme”).

A notably important distinction is that only ONE benefits animals and only ONE consistently practices a least-harm principal.

If, after the facts, you’re still confused, you let me know and I can see about getting you some helpful flash cards or maybe I can make a colorful flow chart.

“Animals are cared for!”

Question: In which environment will you find dying and dead animals who were/are mass bred and who exist in a state of exploitation for HUMANS’ benefit, versus their OWN benefit, whose “journey” ends in premature and violent death for HUMANS’ benefit and who are often condemned due to illness, disease, and squalor inherent in numbers confined and killed?

Answer: Slaughterhouse

Source

USDA: Millions of animals are “condemned” each year in just the USA because of the diseases and squalor they’re forced to exist with and in. The below link demonstrates ONLY 2 months for just chickens, page 6 includes reasons for condemnation, including leukosis, septicaemia, tumors, contamination, and overscalding (which includes being boiled alive), none of which suggest “care” but rather human apathy and cruelty for cheap flesh requiring incalculable animal suffering:

Poultry Slaughter 02/22/2023 (cornell.edu)

Question: In which environment will you find animals who are ALIVE, nonexploitatively, for THEIR benefit, who are not abused and not eaten, who receive necessary treatment with the goal of EXTENDING their lives versus destroying them.

Answer: Sanctuary

“Animals get a humane death, quick and painless!”

Question: In which environment will you find animals in fear, where they can see, smell, and hear other animals dying, where stunning is often required to protect employees who are killing animals, employees who aren’t required to have any formal education or experience in killing, but where stunning often fails and animals experience excruciating and terrifying death? And in which environment, the footage of which will not be watched by fragile people who cause the footage, but of which the industry never has, nor will ever, release due to its inherent violent nature, but still calls “humane”?

Answer: Slaughterhouse

Sources

Click for slaughterhouse exposes, data, and sources including USDA)

How Effective Is Captive Bolt Stunning?

Chickens freezing to death and boiled alive: failings in US slaughterhouses exposed

Inside the slaughterhouse: an investigation on the industrial slaughter of animals

Regarding the Tras los Muros horrific expose into Spanish slaughterhouses, what I think is interesting is, even though I never scale suffering as it’s all unethical, the World Animal Protection rated Spain HIGHER than the USA in “animal welfare”.

Question: In which environment will you see some animals who may be suffering from old age or disease, many rescued from “humane” farms and slaughterhouses, who are in an as-comfortable position and area as possible, with people who genuinely care about them, and who are euthanized by a licensed individual using injectable medications specifically for the purpose of least-pain, efficacy, and quickness?

Answer: Sanctuary

“I don’t pay for cruelty!”

Question: In which environment will you see cats and dogs who are being unwillingly, violently killed, using torturous methods, for people who buy their flesh and body parts?

Answer: Slaughterhouse

Question: In which environment will you see other animals, not cats and dogs, who are being unwillingly, violently killed, using torturous methods, for people who buy their flesh and body parts?

Answer: Slaughterhouse

Let me explain the different format I’ve used in case it was vague: People get unhinged when cats and dogs or other “worthy” animals are violently killed, but they don’t exercise that condemnation when other “unworthy” animals are killed, animals who also all have the capacity for fear, pain, and suffering. Furthermore, when you claim to NOT pay for cruelty, it’s as if you’re saying you’re paying for KINDNESS and CARE, but you really ARE NOT. It’s a SLAUGHTERHOUSE where nothing good happens, do you understand that? It’s not a nice, happy, warm-and-fuzzy place. It’s terror, blood, screams, violence, and pain.

Conversely, when people volunteer for or donate to a SANCTUARY, they’re NOT paying for the animals to violently die, be dismembered, eviscerated, and eaten.

Please tell me if you don’t understand, I know the concept of least-harm can be difficult to grasp by some.

Sources

Click for slaughterhouse exposes, data, and sources including USDA)

Question: In which environment will you see many animals who are not violently killed for human profit and where money, including donations, is used for animals’ benefit, to feed, shelter, and provide medical care for THEM (and NOT as part of an exploitative scheme where animals are “artificially” bred and rapidly grown using the cheapest ingredients)?

Answer: Sanctuary

“Get animals from small farms where they are treated well!”

Question: In which environment will you find dead animals, violently killed and at a fraction of their lifespans, following brief existences of reproductive exploitation, separation of infant and mother, mutilation, squalor, confinement, and lack of choice, who come from all-sized operations?

Answer: Slaughterhouse

Sources

USDA: It is legally required that animals used for “commercial purposes” in the US are killed in an inspection- regulated slaughterhouse. (Regardless of being from one of the four “small farms” in the US. SL)

99% of U.S. Farmed Animals Live on Factory Farms

Regulatory Definitions of Large CAFOs, Medium CAFO, and Small CAFOs

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

Source EPA

Question: In which environment will you find alive animals not required to perform bodily duties for human benefit, who don’t violently die at a fraction of their lifespans, where the goal is their comfort, happiness, longevity, and peace after being rescued from predominantly exploitatively abusive (“farms”, slaughterhouses, zoos, labs, etc.) conditions?

Answer: Sanctuary

“It’s illegal to abuse animals!”

Question: In which environment will you find dead animals, violently killed and at a fraction of their lifespans, following brief existences of reproductive exploitation, separation of infant and mother, mutilation, squalor, confinement, and lack of choice, where all animals are expressly exempt from the (meager) Animal Welfare Act and where ZERO LAWS “protect” them from violent death, including animals from “farms” where historically, people protest anti-bestiality laws because “cheese tho”?

Answer: Slaughterhouse

Sources

USDA Animal Welfare Act

The Meat Industry’s Bestiality Problem

Question: In which environment will you find alive animals not required to perform any bodily “duties” for HUMANS’ benefit, who don’t violently die at a fraction of their lifespans, who have ZERO REQUIREMENTS for “protection”?

Answer: Sanctuary

“So you’re pro-life?”

Question: In which environment will you find dead animals, violently killed as infants, including calves both in utero and as young as three weeks; chicks if they’re male; fetal pigs sold for “science”; males and females reproductively exploited for AI, and mothers following brief existences of THEIR reproductive exploitation, forcibly separated from their infants?

Answer: Slaughterhouse

Sources

Birth and Motherhood in a Slaughterhouse: Charlotte’s Story

Why the US egg industry is still killing 300 million chicks a year

Where do animals used in dissection come from?

Boe’s Story – Boar Semen Collection

Upwards of 4 million calves, many as young as 3 weeks, are routinely killed because males are considered worthless to the death industry. 

USDA: “Male dairy calves are used in the veal industry.  Dairy cows must give birth to continue producing milk, but male dairy calves are of little or no value to the dairy farmer.”

Page 6, USDA slaughter totals:

Livestock Slaughter 2021 Summary 04/20/2022 (cornell.edu)

USDA, pages 43 and 67, deaths in calves not due to slaughter; second link begin page 20 for sheep and lambs (2015 is most recent date for compiled data):

Death Loss in U.S. Cattle andCalves Due to Predator andNonpredator Causes, 2015

Sheep and Lamb Predator and Nonpredator Death Loss in the United States, 2015

Question: In which environment will you find alive animals, including infants rescued from the “political pro-lifers”, “political pro-lifers” who think it’s ok to abuse animals including babies because some humans have abortions?

Answer: Sanctuary

“Animals have good lives and one bad day!”

Question: In which environment will you take your kids to see the finality of your dystopian drama “Good Lives and One Bad Day!”

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Yeah, I thought so.

Trillions of animals are butchered yearly on Earth, none of whom come from “good lives” that is concluded with unmitigated fear and violence whose realistic nightmare include existences primarily on wretched places of disease, filth, and darkness. Animals are bred to be dead, nobody cares how they “live”; animals are considered disposable objects, I’ve demonstrated the delusion of “care is necessary for them to be profitable” via the fact of condemned and trashed animals.

Animals suffer for human deception.

So, folks, allow ME to tell YOU before the end of this song …

Question: Which is the ONLY option for being humane and causing least harm?

Answer: VEGANISM.

Visit, or donate to, rescued animals on sanctuaries:

Beneath The Wood Sanctuary

Farm Animal Sanctuary Guide: Visit, Volunteer, & Meet the Animals

Australia: Vegan farmed animal sanctuaries

Slaughterhouse exposes, data, and sources

The USDA recently released 1000s of pages of slaughter “violations” that proves that animals are relentlessly subjected to torture. Notably, the USDA had to be sued to release these records. Why? Since nobody hesitates to share “humane” information, the USDA acknowledges the utter failure of “humane” slaughter. Even the “quick” – and rare and unproveable – death doesn’t nullify the inherent unethical quality of killing including required animal suffering.

Click here to jump directly to the USDA Scribd pdfs

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/2021-05/FOIA-2018-062-MOI-NR.pdf

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/2021-06/FOIA-2019-298-Released-Records.pdf

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/2021-05/FOIA-2017-274-MOI-NR.pdf

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/2021-06/FOIA-2019-298-Released-Records.pdf

Globally pigs are routinely stunned using CO2, a process that is unarguably torturous; the UK acknowledged more than 2 decades ago the suffering involved but still uses CO2. It’s important to recognize that undercover and whistleblower footage is meaningful because the industry will never release its own footage based on the terror and violence required of animal victims.

Pigs ‘burn from the inside out’ in gas chambers: Why carbon dioxide is the meat industry’s best-kept secret

Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers | WIRED

Slaughterhouse pigs choke on gas meant to stun them

Hidden Video and Whistleblower Reveal Gruesome Mass-Extermination Method for Iowa Pigs Amid Pandemic

Chickens freezing to death and boiled alive: failings in US slaughterhouses exposed

Inside the slaughterhouse: an investigation on the industrial slaughter of animals

Inside grim lives of farmed pigs forced to live in squalor and left for hours to die:

Notable: “Former pig industry vet Dr Alice Brough said the footage shows ‘the epitome of squalor and unfortunately represents the norm for a large proportion of Britain’s pig farms.’ “

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Slaughter means just that.

Humane slaughter is an oxymoron.

Sanctuary is exactly what a slaughterhouse isn’t.

This could not be more obvious

Karen Lyons Kalmenson

I’ve been “redistricted” so I just discovered my “new” representative is an obvious religious fanatic extremist. (I mean, isn’t that what people who use religion to validate violence and killing typically are called?)

In response to a message I recently sent, I received the following:

Stop.

Take a seat.

So many humans use a “father” who willingly allowed his own “son” to be violently tortured and murdered, legally, as a guidepost for ethics. I’m not confident such a being has a really firm grasp of “care”, “innocence”, or “stewardship”.

And their behaviour is actually quite transparent when people blame god for their hateful, intolerant, or violent choices, whether to “sanctify” homophobia, racism, misogyny, apathy, and/or suffering and death. But if you can’t be responsible for your own cruel actions, why does God have to be? Is it because paying for forgiveness is such a socially-acceptable soul cleanser? Toss a $20 tithe and those closing gates open right up again? We live in a society of infant-mature adults who still breastfeed and cowardly blame “god” because you KNOW your behaviour is harmful but choose a religion-washing facade rather than be better.

And it’s bizarre how so many humans believe in a “god” but don’t believe that NOT harming animals is actually more beneficial to animals than harming animals…………………….

In any case, here’s my response, and to clarify, even AWA or HSA “coverage” is 100% meaningless, but I share basic facts with people who obviously are unaware of (or pretend to be) the government protocols they represent. People say all the time that it’s illegal to be cruel to animals while they are literally eating an animal’s unwillingly violated, fearfully killed, and dismembered corpse.

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Representative,

Thank you for the invitation to “stay in touch”, please allow me the opportunity to therefore respond to your message with respect to animals.

First, God did not give “mankind” “dominion over animals” that translates into trillions of animals being relentlessly butchered yearly, globally today.  He’s not here to defend Himself against the atrocities humans effortlessly inflict on animals in His name.  What you are referring to is a bible, written by people thousands of years ago according to then, that is used today as confirmation bias: in other words, humans enjoy using religion to satisfy their own opinions, interpreting the bible to validate intolerance, apathy, and “dominion over animals” that violently kills trillions yearly in reprehensible manners. 

If people need to use the bible to satisfy personal choices, then why not choose Genesis 1:29 instead, where God gave humans fruits, seeds, and nuts to eat as “meat”?  Why choose the violent passages over the one that takes precedence and causes least harm?  Or do you suppose it’s just comforting to have zero accountability, challenging ethics with vague, arbitrary “god’s will”?

God did not demand that Americans exempt all animals exploited for food in the USA from the (meager) Animal Welfare Act; God also did not instruct Americans to deny “coverage” under the Methods of Humane Slaughter Act to 90% of animals butchered yearly in the USA (poultry and fish are not included).  God also did not provide a euphemizing thesaurus to deceptively label violence against animals as “humane” or based on “welfare”.  Did He?  And for certain, no god or any deity for that matter, blessed humans with empathy only to demand it be rejected in defiance of Him to effortlessly inflict pain, suffering, and violence on animals: imagine pretending that God gave non-human animals the capacity to experience pain, fear, and suffering, like human animals do, only to will humans to cause such against them, the most vulnerable and defenseless of creatures.  That’s not a benevolent god, is it?

Second, those fragile ecosystems are continuously destroyed to grow food for the animals humans eat.

And third, with respect to your claim that “innocent animals” (no animal is actually guilty yet must suffer as if regardless) need to be protected from abuse and neglect, using their bodies and killing them is inherently abusive and neglectful.

Allow me to explain with some questions.

Did you know that the USDA recently released 1000s of pages of slaughter “violations” that proves that animals are relentlessly subjected to horrors humans love to ignore because “god, tho”?  Did you know the USDA had to be sued to release those records?  Nobody hesitates to share “good stuff” so we all know why they had to be sued.  

Nothing good ever happens in a slaughterhouse, nobody takes their companion dogs and cats to be killed in them, but since humans have the privilege of never having to experience being killed and eaten by another largely indifferent society, it’s really easy to overlook the terror and pain required of animals in them.

Source, USDA (this is just one link, there are many):

FOIA-2019-298-Released-Records.pdf (usda.gov)

Did you know millions of calves, many as young as 3 weeks, are routinely killed because males are worthless to the “industry”? 

Source, USDA:

“Male dairy calves are used in the veal industry.  Dairy cows must give birth to continue producing milk, but male dairy calves are of little or no value to the dairy farmer.”

Veal from Farm to Table | Food Safety and Inspection Service (usda.gov)

Page 6, USDA slaughter totals:

Livestock Slaughter 2021 Summary 04/20/2022 (cornell.edu)

USDA, pages 43 and 67, deaths in calves not due to slaughter:

cattle_calves_deathloss_2015.pdf (usda.gov)

Did you know pigs are routinely stunned using CO2 in disturbingly grotesque and painful manners?  Do you understand why undercover and whistleblower footage is meaningful?  Because the industry will never release its own footage based on the terror and violence required of the animal victims.

Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers | WIRED

Did you know that millions of animals are “condemned” each year in just the USA because of the diseases and squalor they’re forced to exist with and in?  That fact is from the USDA as well and is not consistent with your belief that animals should not be abused or neglected.

Source, USDA:  This is for ONLY 2 months, refer to page 6 where you can see the various reasons for condemnation, including leukosis, septicaemia, tumors, contamination, and overscalding (which includes being boiled alive):

Poultry Slaughter 02/22/2023 (cornell.edu)

Those are just a few examples of how humans are “properly stewarding” animals, I share them with you because it sounds as if your office is unaware of what actually happens to them, but people love to define the suffering of others in terms that causes people comfort causing the suffering of others but that does nothing for their victims.

To be honest and logical based on what happens today to animals who never agreed to be exploited and violently killed, nobody kills and consumes and uses animals because they honestly believe that NOT killing, NOT consuming, and NOT using animals is UNethical or INhumane or “sinfully” contrary to “god’s will”.

And for certain, if “properly caring” for animals is important, then NOT harming them, ie., NOT violating and NOT violently killing them, is MORE important.

Humans have historically defended violence, cruelty, and death based on economic benefit.  I don’t smoke to sustain tobacco farmers who also have families to feed, and I likewise don’t exploit animals because Wan Long likely enjoys a paycheck, too.

And I certainly don’t need an old book to define my morals, God’s not a congressperson, you are.  Basic decency requires humans NOT violate and violently kill others: nonviolence and least harm is ALWAYS better than violently harming.  And THAT is what is “best” for animals.

Stacey

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(btw, I don’t use disingenuous greetings or closings, since I oppose your shitty, hateful, and/or violent behaviour, you are most definitely NOT my friend and I’m not going to pretend you are. It’s one of my biggest pet peeves when people write me using preformatted and feigned “dear” and “friend” and “warmest regards”, “best regards”, “warmest and most best regards”, blahblahblah, as if such pithy words validate a message of disagreement, intolerance, or welcomed violence and embraced death.)

Oh, and I did receive another response in which I was told my above message was sent to an unmonitored inbox, but if you can’t hit “reply” to respond to a previous email, I would expect that email to at least indicate such, correct? Do you suppose my invitation to “stay in touch” was revoked?

Typical.

SL

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I’m gonna have to call out some traumatized nonvegans again. On a comment board following a NYT opinion article Rescuing Farm Animals From Cruelty Should Be Legal in favor of a DxE rescue of two chickens from the death industry, some nonvegans had to digitally vocalize why those two chickens should have instead violently suffered death in a “caring, welfare-respectful establishment” – while ignoring that there are zero laws “protecting” “food animals” – in a world where trillions of animals violently suffer yearly for a largely indifferent society that doesn’t experience anger at SUFFERING but rather at people who rescue animals from suffering. I know that was really wordy, but it’s hard summarizing the mass, incalculable violence and pain humans effortlessly inflict, but relentlessly defend, on innocents. (And I’ll just point out here that ALL animal exploitation is cruel, not just “some”.) The comments were eventually closed so I was unable to respond to a couple directly, and while there’s probably a 100% chance of 0 that the original commenters will see my responses here, I think it’s important to make these corrections in general as so many of these excuses are inaccurately-yet-consistently demonstrated by so many non (anti) vegans, whose only change is their name, to attempt to validate injustice. And I can’t just ignore them. Sue me.

This is a favorite of mine: nonvegans demanding vegans make violence against animals more comfortable for nonvegans. So instead of saving chickens, because obviously Michael likes to eat chickens, animal rescuers need to instead concentrate on saving “veal” calves, obviously because Michael doesn’t like the flavor of infant flesh but needs to deflect from his willing participation in chicken suffering and float the idea that because calves violently die due to not being rescued by vegans – versus being killed for and by nonvegans – he can’t be bothered to not kill chickens. (I mean, antivegans’ excuses are like a brain trust in reverse.)

(And they’re not “its”, but I understand that humans have been exploiting speciesist language to distance themselves from their sentient victims since communication was born and it’s just easier for people to refer to boats as “she” and animals as “its”.)

I actually answered this one by factually demonstrating, with USDA data, that “veal” is caused by “dairy”. In other words, Michael, your milk, cheese, and ice cream consumption – because you actually do like to eat those – are responsible for all those poor, sweet baby cows being violently confined and killed as early as 3 weeks of age (of course there are millions who violently die at an even earlier age of 0 in slaughterhouses, too, when their mothers are violently killed and cut open to – surprise! baby here who needs to be killed too).

Michael’s response?

Silence, aka, a hugely silent, “OOOOOOOOOOPS!!! I didn’t know that so will just pretend that I still don’t know and ignore that I personally cause baby cow suffering AND chicken suffering ….”

Of course.

Cruelty is only offensive when you don’t know about or acknowledge that you are directly responsible for said cruelty.

But yes, it’s vegans’ responsibility to help Michael sort his conscience on his self-serving journey to zero accountability….

Just stop the tantrum-blaming, suggesting your cruel actions and violent behaviour are someone else’s responsibility, I’m not here to make you feel better about abusing animals, that’s all on YOU, YOU enable “veal crates” and other suffering via your actions and pathetic welfare “reform” internet support and involvement in an inherently cruel “system” that normalizes a culture of violent animal suffering and death that is ALL RELATED. (And as for those “reforms” I swear I’m going to hurl if I see another person scream, “Yes, pass those regulations, I’m more than happy to pay more for humanely raised animals!!!” while STILL supporting what they admit is cruel NOW. Not to mention – again – that ALL animal exploitation is inherently cruel: if a bigger cage is important, what’s more important than NO CAGE? NOT “cage free”, which is just as bad. What animals need aren’t two inches more of extreme confinement followed by the same brief existence of mutilation, pain, suffering, and violent death, I mean: NO EXPLOITATION AT ALL. Nothing is more of an improvement for the WELFARE of animals, for the HUMANE treatment of animals, than humans being VEGAN and leaving animals TF alone.

People have been brainwashed into conformist flesh zombies, believing that unethically and inhumanely violating and violently killing animals is ok because “poor people, male-calves-I-mean-oooops-not-really, a vague future with maybe bigger cages, children’s cavities tho” … :

How about you? Because, you know, instead of spending time criticizing people who spend time helping animals, how many teeth could you have saved by NOT taking time reading and commenting on an article that makes you angsty? (Are you even a dentist or are you implying we all just need to grab some pliers? Seems a bit torturous but I wouldn’t expect an animal abusing apologist to care much about kids anyway.)

But you don’t really care about kids, you care about inventing some fake moral outrage so you don’t have to address the factual suffering and cruelty YOU cause that you could easily NOT.

I mean, imagine feeling so insecure as to suggest that NOT helping animals is required to helping kids while simultaneously ignoring abject animal abuse – animals being boiled alive in this case – because you’re incapable of being a decent human who refuses such cruelties but have to pretend that you’re not complicit because kids get cavities. Desperate much? I can’t even word your illogic logically it’s so bizarre.

But do tell how your violence helps kids with their medical care. And do share also how many sports events, malls, libraries, grocers, theaters, clothing stores, zoos, vet clinics, etc., etc., etc., you’ve visited, screaming at people who shop, play sports, or watch tv, that THEY should instead spend time helping other humans with their dental needs.

Oh. It’s only people who care about animals that you enragingly target: “I refuse to minimize animal suffering so I’m just gonna criticize those who do!!!”

You know why? Because you can’t justify your cruel behaviour, but rather than examine and change it, you have to try to bring others down to your level of indecency and apathy. Indeed, rather than choosing plant-based milk instead of suffering cow’s milk, you have to falsely accuse animal rescuers of being anti-human to deflect from your pro-abuse behaviour.

The hubris irony of “humanitarians” who demand those very humans NOT exercise their rights and ethics to minimize suffering. Honestly, I’ve never been hit with so much hatred than from antivegan “humanitarians” who casually forget that vegans are, you know, human.

And by the way, millions upon millions of animals are condemned (removed from “food supply”) yearly due to disease, neglect, and squalor, do they affect kids’ teeth? Or is it only the animals who are rescued … from you?

And to be clear, the people who spend gobsandgobs of time killing animals, abusing animals, hunting animals, eating animals, cooking animals, using animals, buying animals, wearing animals, breeding animals, impregnating animals, mutilating animals, celebrating animal violence, encouraging more violent exploitation of animals, mocking animal suffering, and mocking people opposed to animal exploitation, are cool, though? As long as a person’s time used to abuse animals aligns with your standard of “legitimate time suckage via animal suffering” they’re good?

So much logic it makes me want to cry ………..

The last comment was correct, but the disinformation machine is alive and violently successful in the first. People say things with zero hesitation because many honestly believe what they’re saying is the truth based on what THEY heard and on and on and on. (Listen to Jem’s They)

You can’t have “empathy” for animals you eat. You have to literally smother your capacity for empathy and instead adopt indifference and word salad justifications overandoverandover to make yourself believe that abusing animals benefits animals. And “humanely raising” is reserved for beings who benefit from a nurturing environment of care and support as they age, not one that exploits and violates your body prior to your body being violently killed and eaten at a fraction of your “normal” lifespan, ffs.

But where are these small farms that slaughter their “own animals” and sell them to community members? I see this “advice” all the time.

Which is really bizarre.

Because it’s illegal.

It’s not a fruit stand, folks, you can’t just “stop by” Farmer Bob’s on your way to bingo and buy a leg and a pound of guts.

In the US, all flesh commercially sold requires inspection and certification via a slaughterhouse. While farmers can kill and consume their “own” animals, it’s illegal to sell their body parts to others.

What’s really (angeringly) interesting is that you’ll NEVER see farmers or industry shills correcting misinformation. No, instead they fuel it with ludicrous, “We love the animals, they’re like our children!!!”

Yikes.

Imagine the absolute betrayal animals experience at the violent hands of their “parents”.

Ah, LB from Minneapolis nobly participates in abject animal suffering because LB is concerned about “poor people”: “I reallyreally hate abusing animals, but I’m forced to eat dead animals to help poor people…………..”

I wonder if LB smokes and also encourages other people to smoke to sustain tobacco farmers? They have families to feed, too, right?

Honestly.

Caring about poor people doesn’t require animal abuse, that’s just the desperate position you take to garner social approval for being pro-violence. Not one utterance of shock at the violence you cause, LB, just vague references excusing it because “other people tho”; and not actively condemning animal exploitation by being vegan DOES defend factory farming. The entire world loves to object to factory farms on the internet but even with such global condemnation, they still exist “producing” >90% of animals violently killed globally for consumption each year. Someone’s fibbing, LB. Shocker.

And let’s be honest: it’s actually privileged to believe others’ bodies belong to you and abuse and kill them for that belief.

And empathy is free. Use it!

Zero antivegans care about poor people, migrant workers, people who live in food deserts, or quinoa farmers in Peru until vegans enter the room. Then they turn into snot-sobbing humanitarians who boldly sacrifice ethics and exploit other people’s tragedies and negative experiences to (attempt to) legitimatize eating violence (while also ignoring that the largest consumer segment of plant-based food are people who also eat animals).

You can care about animals and humans. At the same time. I do, why can’t you?

A pound of “ground beef” would cost about $35 minus subsidies, how about you stop exploiting animals and use those dollars in a more worthwhile manner? Because rather than admit that you don’t need to support animal abuse, you deflect by instead pretending that violence against animals is ok based on “my (fake) hurty feelings about poor people tho” and criticize people who support animal rescue.

And by the way, when people exploit “poor people” to (attempt to) legitimatize their personal contribution to animal suffering, they’re suggesting that poor people are incapable of being vegan and minimizing animal suffering. And THAT’S offensive. SL

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Ignorance is never bliss to its victims

Karen Lyons Kalmenson

Spy Cams Reveal the Horrible Animal Suffering Required in Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers : See above and additional footage of Smithfield Foods Gas Chambers recently exposed by Investigator Raven Deerbrook (@RestlessDoe).

I received an email yesterday from the RSPCA asking me to sign a petition requiring CCTV in slaughterhouses to “protect” animals. Of course I had to write back.

And they responded!

As did I. Again. Because I’m not one of those people who needs to be “assured” (the irony) animals don’t suffer for humans (they do, relentlessly) and donate $50 for a free tote bag showing alive animals (the irony), while proudly displaying Bumper Sticker Activism (SAVE THE WHALES!) while eating fish (again, the irony) …

Don’t come at me with your wordy nonsense suggesting you’ve made the bold and noble decision to sacrifice ethics and support animal suffering because most of “civilization” is also challenged by decency … while also – bizarrely – stating you don’t encourage animal consumption … while simultaneously sharing a link to your RSPCA-Assured scheme (scam) that LITERALLY encourages humans to abuse animals by consuming their abusively-and-violently-killed bodies.

Hypocrisy much?

Vegans have been exposing and sharing slaughterhouse footage since practically the birth of time to mostly willfully ignorant people who blame vegans for exposing such horrific violence rather than themselves for participating in and causing said horrific violence.

But somehow, nonvegans recording animals’ required violent killings will benefit those animals.

Somehow.

Some…

How…

Wait. How???

If it wasn’t so hypocritically violent, it would be satire.

Who’s going to watch, industry employees? An assigned “independent consultant” who also consumes animals? It won’t be available to the public but who would watch anyway? (Besides vegans of course.)

Here’s the thing: footage that reveals cruelty is ALWAYS IGNORED by people who instead favor, “Not here! Anomaly! Illegal!” How many times have YOU excused suffering based on, “It should be blahquickblahpainlessblah.” (Which conveniently ignores the suffering animals are required to experience before the final violent act of being killed.) Did you know using “should” is your subconscious tell? Because you know it’s NEVER “should”, it’s ALWAYS violent suffering.

Why is it that people accept that laws prohibiting human abuses don’t prevent human deaths but people think regulations that “illegalize” animal abuses magically prevent animal abuse/death??? You know how ludicrous that is, correct?

If animal abuse was globally illegal, slaughterhouses wouldn’t exist … because animals should NOT be exploitatively abused.

You will agree that violently killing others is unethical as well as inhumane, correct? Because if someone’s companion dog being violently killed is “inhumane” – based on the victim’s capacity to experience pain and cruelty (though not required) rather than the abuser’s motive for inflicting pain and cruelty – then the human categorization of “inhumane” shouldn’t change based on species, and that being killed is being inherently abused. But when applied to “consumed animals” your “ethics” dramatically shift to the “conditions-that-benefit-me, tho” clause. Not to mention that trillions of animals are violently killed EACH YEAR but supposedly all animals globally will be “protected” by CCTV requirements. You can’t even count that high. And all animal exploitation is related: if you eat chickens in the US, you are contributing to a foundation of normalized violence that forgives animal consumption elsewhere of catsdogshorsesrabbitsetcetcetc.

And nobody except zero people has ever suggested that companion animals be “euthanized” in slaughterhouses because it’s all so humane due to “CCTV, tho”. Right?

And on that topic, people who (understandably) “aggressively” campaign against the CDMT (“cat and dog meat trades”) aren’t demanding video coverage of the cat and dog victims’ violent deaths to “protect” cats and dogs, they’re demanding an uncompromising elimination of the CDMT industry in whole. (But since the vast majority of them aren’t vegan, they’re heralded for their brave and necessary advocacy…)

Anything to smother that bit of conscience, huh?

If you’re a nonvegan promoting CCTV as necessary to “protect” animals while those animals are being violently killed, what is a more ideal and actually meaningful way to protect animals than NOT SENDING ANIMALS TO SLAUGHTERHOUSES IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Indeed, if you admit slaughterhouses are badbadbad enough to require CCTV, then why are YOU sending animals there?

And for certain, you will NEVER see footage of CO2 chambers publicly released by the industry. Never.

Listen, folks, to protect animals, you don’t have to donate to welfare organizations who profit from animal exploitation and tell people what they want to hear – that violating, controlling, and violently killing animals is beneficial to animals and helps protect them (?!?). What you need to do is just stop ab/using animals. Just stop. It’s also 100% meaningless to sign petitions or frame animal violence in human-acceptable manners via pathetic and paltry welfare improvements (a prison with a death sentence is still a prison with a death sentence even if the confinement is slightly larger – and animals are innocent), you just have to stop harming animals.

If you’re advocating for the “humane treatment” of animals, what is more humane than NOT harming/killing them?

Nonvegans never answer that question, it’s just their way of defining the pain they inflict on others in manners that makes them feel comfortable inflicting pain on others. SL

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Some humans are a rather limited and clueless bunch who live their lives by the hypocritic oath

Karen Lyons Kalmenson

Since you don’t care about animals who die in slaughterhouses, don’t pretend you care about the ones killed in crop harvesting, the majority of whom are killed for YOUR “meat” …

I know facts often challenge the ethical-deficient “carnivores” who enjoy animal death, but I came across another crop-harvesting-tu-quoque animal abuser recently (ironically on a petition message board protesting the abuse of a “pet pig” where I inspired the unhinged drama of an “animal lover” threatened by my vegan comment about how ALL pigs who suffer for humans deserve to NOT also, and why do people NOT understand the normalized violence of killing trillions of animals yearly, exploited for food, has violent “NOT normal” consequences on OTHER “worthy” animals? ) that I think it’s time to revisit the failed logic and mathematics of people desperate enough to shrilly scream (falsely) about the “poor sweet mice and bunnies who cannot run and instead die via harvesting for only vegans’ food…” while dismissing animals who are enslaved, violated, mutilated, and then violently butchered, exploited for “food”. If your wrath is in response to vegan consistency exposing the horrors ALL animals endure for humans, then your defense is strictly egotistic, vegans aren’t the ones who have self-serving motives, that’s YOU.

And for sure, nonvegans harvest crops, not vegans, so of course the cheapest, ie., most lethal, production methods are utilized; in a vegan world, crop deaths would be minimized or eliminated completely.

Anti/nonvegans always fail to also consider the mass animal deaths of those who are NOT violently butchered in slaughterhouses but who die in other areas of “anag production” such as those who – ahem – die in crop harvesting for crops, the vast majority of which are used to feed the animal victims nonvegans consume; those exploited for AI (see Boe’s tragic story); those who die during birth or infancy/due to disease and squalor/due to neglect/due to abuse; those who die to “protect” animals exploited for food (yup, the USDA kills upwards of one millions native animals yearly so the animals killed for food are protected from being killed for food by native animals); those who die via transport; those who die on feed lots; those who die in weather-related events; etc., etc., etc. (But let’s be honest here, ALL animals bred to be dead are inherently neglected and abused, as are the ones who won’t be consumed but who are violently killed for humans anyway.)

And to the antivegan haters who haunt vegan social media in efforts to convince the masses that flesh is necessary for “optimal health”, including the “concerned” public who desperately flaunt being a flexatarian/reducetarian/vegetarian/soilist-regenerationer, ie.,OMNIVORE; the fake doctors who joyfully dedicate threads to (attempts to) body shame vegans or who quote vegans in bizarrely irrelevant manners; the enraged “carnivores” so obsessed with vegans their every moment is desperately dedicated to co-opting vegan into “vegan carnivorism”; the “ex vegans” who were NEVER vegan but who enjoy the attention they so desperately seek and need lying about how they drank only juice for one week and then almost died and blame all vegans, past-present-and-future: imagine having to lie each and every day to yourself and others that flesh is necessary for health while also having ZERO concern about your absolutely UNHEALTHY BEHAVIOR. Seriously, that you cannot see it is bizarre and not-just-a-small-amount disturbing, it’s as if you’re insecure in your securely insulated, indoctrinated, abusive world of billions who also don’t care about animals. I mean, imagine leading such a seemingly insignificant but cruel existence, threatened by nonviolence, empathy, and justice, that your only joy comes from compulsively lying about vegans, spending literally gobs upon gobs upon gobs of time doing nothing but stalking vegan accounts.

So yes, do stay mad, bitter, and obsessed, pro animal killers, because you’re more concerned with only the pseudo appearance of caring to generate social approval and not the animals who violently suffer and die for you. My anger about the abuses and incalculable suffering inflicted on animals by all-privileged-humans, is legitimate, think cats and dogs and other “pets” and how enraged Americans get over their abuse, applied towards all animals. You antivegans, though? Your anger is for all the wrong reasons, directed towards people who minimize animal suffering because you are incapable of decency so instead feel compelled to flaw vegans and not the abuses you pile on innocents, especially considering nobody is forcing you to NOT abuse animals. What happened to you to make you this way? You boast about your cruelty as easily as people chitchat about the game or the weather around the water cooler. Seriously, get help, gtfu, or get a new hobby and leave the animals TF alone because your “love” and “caring” feel a lot like indifference, abuse, and suffering.

(And ANYONE who listens to an absolutely vile and repulsive human-waste like Ted Nugent speaks volumes about those who use him as a source for ANYTHING other than trash. Like, jfc.) SL

Source Surge

By Ed Winters

Ted Nugent, a man who said that the South African apartheid “isn’t that cut and dry” and that all men are not created equal, and who bragged about his relationships with underage girls, went on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in 2018 to talk about, of all things, morality. Specifically, how those who follow a vegan lifestyle are responsible for more animal deaths – through the harvesting of crops and use of fertilisers and pesticides – than people who choose to consume animals directly.

We do see this comment quite often and it’s about time we took a good look at the argument being made. Are animals killed in plant production? Yes, but it’s not just vegans eating plants, especially soy – of all the crops to choose. In fact, around 75 to 80 per cent of the soy that is produced is used as farmed animal feed and only 6 per cent is actually used for human consumption. Therefore, if you are upset about animals being killed in soy farming, then stop funding the industries that use three-quarters of all the soy that is grown.

Nugent is not the only one who has made this argument. Chris Kresser used the same argument a year later also on the Joe Rogan podcast in which he cited a research paper that stated that 7.3 billion animals were killed every year from plant agriculture if counting, as well as mouse deaths, birds killed by pesticides, fish killed by fertiliser run-off and lizards and amphibians killed by eating insects contaminated with toxic pesticides.

Firstly, more than 9.5 billion land animals are killed directly for food in the US each year and when you add marine animals that number becomes 55 billion, so more animals are still killed directly for meat, dairy and eggs than they are for crops. Secondly, according to data from the USDA, 77.3 million acres of land in the US are used to grow crops that humans eat directly, and 127.4 million acres are used to grow crops that are converted to animal feed, which means that about 65 per cent more land is harvested just to produce animal feed. That’s not to mention the 654 million acres of land that are used for pasture, which means that in the US ten times more land is given to animal farming compared to plant farming. In fact, according to the most comprehensive analysis ever conducted exploring farming and the environment 83 per cent of all global agricultural land is used for animal farming.

Let’s have a look at the study that Kresser cited in more detail – Field Deaths in Plant Agriculture – published in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics in 2018. For those of you who saw his debate with James Wilks, who produced The Gamechangers, you’ll know that Kresser cannot read forest plots, but it seems as if he has a bigger problem – his inability to actually understand the subject matter in the first place, as he clearly had not read through the paper he cited.

Firstly, the 7.3 billion animals that Chris cites from this paper is derived from data that the authors call into question. In their own words they say, “the estimate should be reduced: 7.3 billion is clearly too high”. If you read the paper the authors actually do much more to dismantle the crop deaths argument, even providing example studies such as a 2004 study that examined the effect of wheat and corn harvesting in central Argentina. It compared the population and distribution of grass mice in three habitats: crop fields, regions bordering the fields and the wider surrounding area. While the number of mice found in fields substantially decreased after harvest, their numbers substantially increased in the border regions. When it came to disappearances, a category that included both mouse deaths and migration out of the study area, there was no significant difference between the three habitats. The study concluded that changes in the number of field animals were “the consequences of movement and not of high[er] mortality in crops”. 

If you just think about it, do we really believe that when a combine harvester is approaching causing a huge amount of noise and vibrations, mice, who normally use their excellent hearing to evade predators, are just going to wait to be killed? The paper Kresser is citing as a piece of evidence, actually does a great job of disproving the very point that he is trying to make and the figure that he cites as evidence is actually disputed in the paper that he is using as evidence. Honestly, Chris Kresser is such a quack.

Where does this whole concept come from? Well, an article was published back in 2003 by someone called Steven Davis that made the statement that fewer animals are harmed in an omnivorous diet that consists of free-range ruminant animals compared to eating an entirely plant-based diet. However, the article assumed that equal amounts of land will produce equal amounts of food, whether that be crops or animal products. This is obviously not true. 

Davis estimates that 7.5 animals are killed per hectare in ruminant pasture and that 15 are killed on land that is used to produce crops. So using his estimates this rebuttal that uses UN data states that 1,000 kilograms of protein can be produced on one hectare of land that is growing plants, but would take 10 hectares of land for grass-fed beef to produce the same amount. This means that Davis’s estimates actually further make the case for being plant-based as his own figures show that vegans are responsible for five times fewer animal deaths.

Further, non-vegans are paying for mutilations, reproductive system exploitation and other forms of suffering, which also applies to grass-fed animals who are disbudded, dehorned, castrated, have their ears tagged, can be branded and are transported in trucks for hours to get to slaughterhouses. In places like Australia, they can travel for 48 hours. Slaughterhouses are terrifying places for the animals to even be in before they are actually killed. Basically, being vegan doesn’t just reduce the number of animals killed on your behalf, it also reduces overall harm and suffering. Not to mention that animals killed in crop production have the chance to escape – the same cannot be said of farmed cows, sheep and so on.

There was then another article that was published back in 2011 and written by Mike Archer, which has been shared around by many non-vegans as it claims that wheat production is responsible for 25 times more deaths than grass-fed beef. Why? Because in Australia every four years on average there are events called mouse plagues where an overwhelming number of mice overrun the fields and are then often poisoned.

Mouse plagues only really occur in Australia, although they have happened in China. But the argument being made is that we shouldn’t be vegan because every four years or so there is a mouse plague in Australia during which farmers poison the mice. In essence, it’s saying that it’s bad for me to be a vegan in the UK because there are mouse plagues in Australia – how does that make sense? Regardless of how nonsensical the argument is, that didn’t stop Steven Crowder from using this logic to discount veganism the world over.

What about the mouse plague? Firstly, let’s just look at wheat consumption in Australia. According to the USDA, it is estimated that in 2019/2020, 3.5 million tonnes of wheat was produced for human consumption, whilst in the same period, six million tonnes was produced to be used as animal feed. So that means animal farmers use around 1.7 times more wheat and so would be responsible for around 1.7 times more mice being killed for wheat production alone.

This is important as well because around 80 per cent of beef sold in domestic supermarkets in Australia comes from animals that were grazing for about 85 to 90 per cent of their lives, but then are fattened up on feedlots for the last 10 to 15 per cent. On top of that, beef can still be sold as grass-fed if the cows have spent fewer than 70 days being fed grain, which, because cows are often slaughtered at around 18 months old, is within that 10 to 15 per cent time period.

What about solely grass-fed cattle, so animals who have only been fed grass? We have this idea that grass-fed means the animals are only consuming the pasture on which they are grazing but this is not the case. Hay, silage and haylage are all grass, so animals are still completely “grass-fed” when they are fed these food sources, which happens often, especially during the colder months or if pastures are nutritionally insufficient.

How do farmers get hay and silage? They have to harvest it. Meaning that even grass-fed cows are fed food that is harvested. So what about the mouse plagues? Well, at the beginning of March this year there was an article about the current mouse plague in Australia in which one farmer said this:

“The hay is a worry. Apparently, the mouse droppings and the urine all run through, it’s very damaging. It can disease cattle. It might be ruined.”

And in the same article another farmer is quoted:

“The Storer family grows sorghum to sell and feed their cattle but mice have been eating it, which has ‘hugely’ hurt them financially.”

Sorghum is a type of grass that is used to make hay. So basically the mouse plague affects the entire agricultural landscape, not just those who grow crops for vegans. This also applies to grass-fed cows as well who are fed hay and silage, which the mouse plague also affects. There is even a document put together by Feed Central, which is Australia’s largest hay selling platform, called Managing a Mouse Plague in Haystacks, which states that “whatever you do, don’t hold back on the number of bait stations.”

By way of a bit of perspective, around six million tonnes (metric tons) of hay is produced each year in Australia, which is nearly double the amount of wheat that is grown just for human consumption. On top of that, the mice also destroy pasture as well and impact grazing land, so even without the hay and silage, the mouse plagues still affect grass-fed cow farming.

Funnily enough, the article accusing vegans of causing more deaths does not mention any of that. We wonder why? Who causes more animal deaths: non-vegans who pay for animals to be directly killed and support industries that use significantly more grain, more land and also use all of the hay and silage; or vegans who use less grain, require less land, do not consume any hay or silage and do not pay for animals to be directly killed?

And guess what, the numbers that Archer uses in his article are twisted. He exaggerated the scale of the mouse plagues by stating that each area of grain production in Australia has a mouse plague every four years, but this is a falsehood according to – ironically – the article that Chris Kresser cited on the Joe Rogan podcast. You just can not make this up:

A more accurate picture is suggested by the Cooperative Research Centre which notes that each year between 100,000 and 500,000 hectares of grain crops in Australia are subject to mouse plagues. These figures suggest that in an average year 2.3 per cent of Australian grain cropland is hit by plague. When Archer’s figure of 55 deaths per hectare of grain is recalculated to only apply to 2.3 per cent of crop land the mortality rate for grain becomes 1.27 animals per hectare.

What this means is that when you use Archer’s figures for animal deaths, 2.2 animals are killed per 100kg of usable grass-fed beef protein, but only 0.7 animals are killed for 100kg of usable wheat protein. And also bear in mind that the 2.2 animal deaths for grass-fed protein do not include the animals killed for the harvest of hay, silage and other feed, so that number will actually be higher.

To summarise, plant-based farming does not cause more deaths, and the two main people who have tried to claim that it does have both inadvertently made the case for veganism even stronger, as when their numbers are applied correctly they also further prove that a plant-based diet kills fewer animals.

To top it all off, here is a chart showing the estimated number of deaths per one million calories for many of the major food items in our diets. As you can see, the difference in deaths between plant foods and animals is very substantial.

Not to mention that shifting to a plant-based diet would free up to 75 per cent of agricultural land, an area the equivalent of Australia, China, the EU and the US combined, which could be reforested and restored. In the words of a recent report from world-leading Chatham House:

Setting aside land for biodiversity to the exclusion of other uses, including farming, and either protecting or restoring natural habitat would offer the most benefit to biodiversity across a given landscape.

With the rise of vertical indoor farming, let’s end with another quote from the study that Chris Kresser cited:

Agriculture has taken a wide variety of forms throughout history, and current trends would seem to raise the serious possibility that plant agriculture might someday kill very few animals—perhaps even none.

So a plant-based diet isn’t just the most ethical right now, it’s going to continue to get more ethical as time goes by. If you care about animals and crop deaths, – AND EVEN IF YOU DON’T (SL) – then you should be need to be (SL) vegan.

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The earth is not a carnivore’s playground

Karen Lyons Kalmenson

Source Jo Frederik, Jo Frederik’s Art

If you need an organization to substantiate that violent killing is “humane”, then it’s not humane, it’s a label on a literally dead being who did not volunteer to die.  My plant-based food requires zero disingenuous “viciously-but-humanely-killed” stickers.

I gotta say, though, even I am sometimes shocked at the level of blind conformity people desperately embrace to validate violence against animals, such as the UK’s  HuMAnE SLaUGhTeR AsSoCIaTIoN’s selection of “gifts” and “christmas cards” depicting alive animals. Really? I mean, jfc, this is deranged and nothing short of vomitous, pure bile-inspiring, oxymoronic, hypocritical garbage. 

For sure, what in the AF are “Bags for Life”? … Bags for Life. … BAGS FOR LIFE. These “gift selections” from a pro-slaughter entity that proudly supports violently killing animals, including calves and piglets, literally have pictures of alive animals on them, such as a calf and a piglet. B A G S F O R L I F E

Perhaps it’s because a bag has a longer lifespan than the life of an animal. Much, much, much longer, and the bag is worth even more, it’s literally considered a “gift” whereas an animal’s life is considered “violently-humanely-disposable”.

Since the only reason the HuMAnE SLaUGhTeR AsSoCIaTIoN exists in the first place is to promote DEATH, rather than an image capturing the (exploitative, violent, brief) “life” of an animal on your BAGS FOR LIFE, why don’t you demonstrate the “humane” actions you all so desperately and belligerently boast about, instead favoring the EXACT OPPOSITE?

Was it a misprint for BEGS FOR LIFE?

Because, come on, if humans are so proud of inventing methods of violence that require the suffering and unwilling deaths of animals, and then have the absolute audacity to call it “humane”, why not be proud enough to share images of THAT?  Why not depict the actual reality of the suffering animals are forced to endure, animals who die in bloody, terrifying, painful, unethical, and horrific manners?

Too graphic? Too real? Too hellish?

But not too graphic, too real, or too hellish to actually NOT cause, NOT support, NOT pay for?

Typical human discord, typical human privilege, typical human passivity.

Here’s a question: what form of slaughter is more humane than NOT slaughtering animals?

Humans don’t kill animals because they honestly believe that NOT killing animals is INhumane or UNethical.

As I always say, it’s disturbing and actually dehumanizing that humans rely on defining others’ suffering in terms that brings humans comfort causing it instead of the ones forced to suffer. Humans spend literally gobs of time, energy, and resources to attempt to validate violently killing animals with their clubsorganizationschaptersbooksvideosmanualsregulationslawsmethodslabelsdefinitionspicturesblahblahblahblah. And really, why do you praise clubsorganizationschaptersbooksvideosmanualsregulationslawsmethodslabelsdefinitionspicturesblahblahblahblah that REQUIRE violent suffering???

Truth’s a bitch, isn’t it.  

And since it’s that time of the year again, I have to ask: why do people buy fake Christmas trees because killing a live tree is psychopathic but killing animals is … NOT … !? SL

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Humane slaughter is the most moronic of oxymorons

Karen Lyons Kalmenson

The circus is in town, what do you see?
As I look out at you, and you look in at me
Do you see me as a large, roaring captive toy,
Or do you look into my eyes, just know pain, no joy.
Do you giggle and point as you mill around my cage,
In my terror annoint as I seethe in rage.
Do you not understand that my roar is a shout:

Open up the door and let me out!!!

Yeah, no.

It’s interesting how often people will stop buying straws to, “Help the Environment!!!!” but who won’t stop eating bacon to not cause harm to animals.

It’s socially acceptable to fight climate change or to require shoppers to use cloth bags for groceries or be charged for using store plastic ones, but tell people that animal agriculture is destroying the planet and that not eating fish causes less harm than not using straws, and you’re a privileged, loud-mouthed, self-serving vegan.

You all know the “joke”: How do you know someone is vegan?

They’ll tell you!!!

LOLHAHAHALOLOLHAHA!!!

Is that like: How do you know someone is gluten/lactose intolerant or allergic to wool?

They’ll tell you!!!

LOLOLOLOLHAhalolololhahaha …………… ???

It’s really not funny, is it?

(You know what else isn’t funny? The fact that calves aren’t lactose intolerant because “dairy” is made for them except they have to either die or be forced into reproductive servitude so that a completely different species, beyond infancy and with teeth, can steal THEIR naturally-intended milk.)

Just like you care about dirt but not cows or else you’d understand the absolute irrationality of dead cows shitting better than alive cows. Right?

It’s really disgusting as well as deceptive how people frame animal suffering as just an unfortunate consequence of being “environmentally responsible”.

Like, how would Earth survive without all the blood, feces, bacteria, disease, bones, decomposition, disease, violence, and suffering?

Nah, you didn’t care about animals OR the planet before climate change was a social hot topic, so don’t try to square-peg them into your round hole to attempt to legitimatize their suffering.

It’s just your non/antivegan way to ignore your contribution to environmental destruction … while forgiving the violent suffering you effortlessly inflict on defenseless, vulnerable animals.

Don’t BS vegans or legitimate plant-based climate activists with your endless word-salad soliloquies and diatribes about how you actually can care about Earth while consuming animals.

Because you can’t.

And while I don’t need to make abolishing animal exploitation beneficial to humans to justify it, I will absolutely tell you that, as non/antivegans, you’re apocalyptic’ing Earth just so you can scream how much you enjoy eating torn, bloody flesh and breastfeeding from innocents.

For stats, please read How Much Does Animal Agriculture Contribute to Climate Change?

And before you claim bias, just remember who’s profiting from telling you that you can kill animals while protecting dirt because “regenerative farming” is just … farming, the same as it has been done by people for centuries, just now spun with a super-cool word to disingenuously frame animal suffering as necessary to maintain soil health.

Soil health.

Not animal health.

Just wait until they come for your dogs as being necessary to maintain “soil health”. Still cool with that? How many planets will it take for healthy soil/unhealthy animals to feed 8 billion people? Only one planet is necessary to feed the same amount of people, we currently SHARE with animals, feeding plant-based foods.

Oh, and reducing isn’t meaningful to the animals who are forced to die for your climate-change fighting virtue signaling: if you can reduce to “help” the environment, you can eliminate for the most beneficial impact and to help THE ANIMALS who have the capacity to feel pain and suffer just as human animals do.

It’s sad how much vegans have to tell people that NOT HARMING is better than harming, so few people actually think about the absolute devastation they cause by destroying others’ lives. SL

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People tend to rationalize
Self deceive
Euphemise
But the truth will not hide
From their denying eyes

Karen Lyons Kalmenson

Source Earthling Ed YouTube

We made Milk so that we could show the reality of the dairy industry from the perspective of those trapped within it. We never stop to think about what these animals are being forced to endure, so by highlighting the story of an individual mother, we hope that people will recognise that there is always a victim when we buy dairy products.

What happens to the mother cow is what happens to all female dairy cows. We specifically chose to show the standard legal practices to illustrate how ingrained and normalised the suffering of dairy cows is within the dairy industry.

The location of the farm and slaughterhouse are based on real locations that are considered high welfare and humane. What we show in Milk is literally the best of the best when it comes to dairy farming, yet, as soon we view what happens from the perspective of the mother cow, it becomes clear that this is an industry that runs on the exploitation and suffering of animals.

By using animation, we are able to show a unique perspective and tell the story of the mother cow in a way that cannot be done from investigative footage alone. Milk centres the cow as the protagonist of her own story and allows us to view what is happening to her from an up close and personal perspective.

Organic, free-range, high-welfare, humanely raised. It doesn’t matter what label we put on dairy products, all dairy cows are victims of an industry that forcibly impregnates them, takes their babies from them, exploits their bodies and then sends them to a slaughterhouse to cut their throats.

It’s time to end the dairy industry.

Produced by Surge Media

Created by Smash Studios

Please share the film widely, thank you so much for your support.

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The human animal needs to cease the self delusional concept of their own superiority to other animal species and recognize their true place in the larger order of things…in order to save others, themselves and the world we all share

Karen Lyons Kalmenson

No matter what happens in Utah, I'm going to make a come back! And so will the movement.#SmithfieldTrial #RightToRescue pic.twitter.com/2Ey3WcODVE

— Wayne Hsiung (@waynehhsiung) October 7, 2022

DxE (Direct Action Everywhere) investigators face years in prison for exposing abuse inside a Smithfield pig farm & rescuing two piglets, read the background HERE. Observations of the trial can be read HERE.

And then answer ‘why’ if so:

If you cannot support The Right To Rescue , to SAVE rather than to VIOLENTLY KILL the most innocent, vulnerable, tormented beings, then what are you? What makes you, a human animal, so inhuman? Greed, indifference, entitlement, privilege? Are you afraid that, as has been observed in other social justice movements by those who reject those movements, “providing” others rights will require some of yours? That your rights will be compromised? That you will lose the ability to feel superior? That you desperately NEED to feel superior because your actions are inferior to what humans can be capable of?

I’ve seen and heard comments that malign and caustically define vegans as “lawbreakers/insane/extreme/disruptive/ugly/privileged/blahblahblah”.

It’s so people who effortlessly cause animal suffering can continue doing so because “the vegans” are the BAD ones, not the ones violently confining, mutilating, controlling, and killing unwilling, fearful, suffering animals.

If you need to characterize vegans who save animals as any of the above or similar, the problem is YOU and the words you manipulate and exploit to forgive your violent actions inflicted on the most vulnerable and innocent of all beings: nonhuman animals.

YOU are the inhuman, denying what is human.

Morality does not equal legality, you just pretend it does to remain comfortably complicit abusing others.

So before you start demanding that vegans be imprisoned for “breaking the law” while rescuing violated and abused beings, you should ask yourself why you support and actually celebrate “laws” that require abject violation, suffering, and violent death of those beings in the first place.

THAT’S inhuman.

Are you not capable of being human, of being better?

SL

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Cruelty cannot run nor hide behind lies
It’s ugly face
Will always rise
And see it
You know
we will
Don’t act surprised

Karen Lyons Kalmenson

 A being as little as a bee

Means so much to humanity 

A world in rhythm 

And harmony 

Our earth our home

Exquisitely ❤️🌎🐝

I think it’s striking that these images factually demonstrating abject animal suffering in the “fur industry” look exactly like the reality of abject suffering of animals in the “animal agriculture food industry” while, in the USA, the fur industry council degenerates like to boast that their victims on fur farms are executed onsite …

(via anal electrocution, for example, where humans physically restrain terrified creatures and insert rods into their anuses to electrocute them – while, interestingly, when humans get colonoscopies, for example, requiring anal insertion of instruments to capture colon images by people who must be educated, trained and certified to do so, which, by the way, is to prevent death versus causing it, humans actually get sedation)

… and therefore don’t require the horrors inherent in slaughter transportation. Imagine bragging that your death industry is marginally “better” than another death industry while ignoring the entire violent D-E-A-T-H requirement of innocent victims in both. If horrific transport is bad, actual violent killing is WORSE.

I wouldn’t expect anything other than deception and manipulation and abuse from the FAM folks in either, though. SL

Source:

We Animals Media

All images courtesy of:

We Animals Media & Jo-Anne McArthur, Photojournalist

This week we’ve got big news on our progress with getting animal stories in the media. Jo-Anne McArthur has been awarded Highly Commended in Wildlife Photographer of the Year for her image Life and Death in Fur Farming.

The image is one of 14 Highly Commended images announced on September 1 as a preview of this year’s competition, which attracted entries from photographers of all ages and experience levels from 93 countries. Jo-Anne is awarded in the category of Photojournalism.

Jo-Anne shares some words about the story behind this image and her hopes for its impact:

The first time I visited fur farms was in 2009. It was a shock to see the decrepit, putrid, mass incarceration of so many animals in so many sheds and tiny cages, offering me yet another of the many moments of disbelief that I experience in my career. I have since photographed fur farming extensively, especially in my home country of Canada, and it is with urgency that I wish for this unnecessary industry to end. I am so happy that we are seeing bans on fur farming in many countries, including those who have traditionally supported a large fur industry.

To say that I’m thrilled that WPY has awarded this mink farming image in their competition is an understatement, because the reason I do this investigative work is so that people can look, consider, discuss, critique, care, change. WPY offers this image of ten, now eight, mink kits and their mother in a cramped nesting box for the world to view. Many people do not know that animals are industrially farmed for their fur. They are unaware of the conditions. They are unaware that these animals are killed by gassing and anal electrocution, or that they are kept in tiny cages by the millions, globally, each year, so that we can wear fur trim, have fur pompoms on our hats, or a poof of fur on a child’s trinket.

I feel passionately about taking photos of fur farming so that the images can help campaigners and policy makers end this industry, and continue to raise awareness amongst the unknowing public. Images are a strong and crucial part of the puzzle when it comes to creating a kinder world for animals.

Jo-Anne McArthur, We Animals Media

All images courtesy of We Animals Media

Mink farming is an industry where, traditionally, the welfare of these semi‑aquatic, naturally solitary mammals has not been a priority unless it affects the fur. But in 2020, mink farming came under the spotlight when it became clear that not only could mink catch the Covid-19 virus, but that the virus could mutate in mink and be transmitted back to humans. In response, Denmark – then the largest mink-fur producer after China – shut down its industry, killing all 17 million animals, and in the Netherlands and Spain, hundreds of thousands were killed. But in Sweden, after a temporary ban on breeding, the government allowed its 20 or so farms to reopen in 2022.

Djurrattsalliansen, the non-profit organization Jo-Anne was working with when she took this photograph, has played a significant role in fur farm investigations in Sweden, which have helped to bring the number of farms down significantly. 

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Fur belongs on whom it was born, not by the vain and frivolous, worn

Karen Lyons Kalmenson