Shit Meat Eaters Say! Yep I've heard them all...

Now,  how about a game of BINGO?

Posing as a Bald Eagle to Escape Execution: Speciesim Unmasked

The cartoon below, in which turkeys attempt to avoid slaughter by disguising themselves as American Bald Eagles, is specifically about how we revere certain species and abuse others as if they were inanimate objects. Eating a Bald Eagle is a crime in the U.S. but abuse of chickens and turkeys is protected by anti-terrorism laws by making it a felony to take pictures or videos inside factory farms. Yes, that’s true. Yes, it’s absurd. Dogs and cats are protected by law but virtually no other species. The lack of logic here confounds me. -- Piraro "Thought Food"

"Humane" Thanksgiving????

For those planning on consuming turkey corpses this Thanksgiving, 

here's what "humane" turkey slaughter looks like.

Empathy: What If We Personally Experienced Non-human Animal Pain and Death?

This is a scene from the television series Powder, in which a sci fi character forces empathy on a deer hunter by causing him to experience what the deer is experiencing. This short and powerful scene  articulates the most  fundamental argument of my thesis; that empathy (or lack thereof) directs our moral decisions and actions.

Marti Kheel, PhD: The value of an ecological model for creating empathy.

Marti Kheel articulates the world view which relates animals, nature and women and that guide beliefs, attitudes, and actions. Kheel, a feminist and animal rights activist, expounds on these deeply entrenched stories guiding current systems in her book Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective (2009). Erin Scott interviewed Marti in her home in Northern Caifornia on May 20, 2009.

 

How can we plant the seeds of empathy and care?

 Professor Kheel gets underneath the entire purpose of my thesis 

in these two important interviews.

Are Humans Designed to Eat Meat?

Marc Bekoff PhD.: Ethological Insights Into the Emotional Lives of Non-human Animals

Animal Emotions: An Interview with Professor Marc Bekoff

Animal Sentience

Marc Bekoff: Who lives, who dies, and why: ignoring and redecorating nature and specious speciesism