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How egomaniacal, how vain, the idea that the species of animal Homo-Sapiens has decided that the world, its resources & every other species of animal are just commodities at their disposal, to be plundered, violently abused & massacred at will to satisfy their whims?
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Animals are each unique, autonomous, self determining individuals therefore they have personhood, therefore they are persons. Language & word definitions are inherently human centric & function to exclude nonhumans but the facts are irrefutable.
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Vegan because I’m not a heartless, unfeeling violent oppressor.
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Vegan because we ain’t arrogant or callous enough to deny that this fellow has as much right to live as us and just like us they value their own life and want to live.
#EndSpeciesism
#TotalLiberation
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When violence becomes normalised, people become willing & tacit accomplices in atrocities.
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Vegan because to anyone with a modicum of decency or ethical principles, it’s a minimum moral baseline. Vegan because my integrity revolts at the idea of the alternative; to be complicit in needless violent abuse through self centred, unthinking, gutless conformism.
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Society hates facing uncomfortable truths about the violent cruelty in animal exploitation industries. Hence vegans are hated because we disrupt established ideological norms of apathy & conspiratorial silence.
If you don’t like what you see, maybe you should stop funding it?
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A society where “Slaughterhouses” - buildings where other animals are led to be brutally killed & butchered - is even considered, let alone built & operational, is a society that cannot make the claim to be moral, decent or civilised.
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Humans considering themselves superior will use their self proclaimed status & power (uncoupled from accountability), to exploit & destroy all other species for selfish & needless purposes & in doing so, end the possibility of an ongoing habitable planet for all.
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When violence becomes normalised, people become unthinking, tacit accomplices in atrocities. They become reduced to mealy mouthed apologists for perpetual heinous cruelty, incalculable suffering and brutal deaths.
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Vegans fight for the elimination of needless violence & suffering. I’m constantly amazed how much that triggers people & sends them into an ever decreasing spiral of blatantly flawed attempts to rationalise & justify needless violence & suffering.
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Non vegans are big fans of infanticide.
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With your innate & limitless capacity for humanity, imagine what you are freely capable of. Now compare that to the gross interminable inhumanity you choose to inflict upon other sentient inhabitants of this shared world.
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In their fear & ignorance induced arrogance, humans imagined that they were the centre of this world. They crowned themselves supreme & granted themselves dominion over land, sea, air & every other inhabitant of the world.
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“The reason that we treat other animals as our slaves & as our commodities isn’t because they have an ontologically rooted inferiority, it’s that we see them as inferiors because we find it useful to exploit & to harm them.”
John Sanbonmatsu
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Injustice thrives with societal collusion. We’re all responsible for systemic injustice & morally obliged to fight it. Personally benefiting from injustice even if it’s a social norm isn’t a legitimate excuse for collusion in that violent oppression.
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If you pay attention to what farmers & slaughterers are doing, rather than what they are saying about what they do, then you might just understand why we are vegan. Since when have you deferred to the words of a violent abuser to formulate your moral stance on abuse?
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The Normalisation of Violence Towards Fellow Animals.
Philosopher Hannah Arendt said that atrocities become commonplace because immoral principles are normalised over time by unthinking people, to the point where they are not even recognised as atrocities.
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We can choose to peacefully coexist with other inhabitants of this shared earth. We can choose to be guided by principles of equality, fairness & justice instead of those of self entitlement, greed & indifference. We can acknowledge that our lives & our shared . . .
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It’s truly sickening that people could dream up such torture as denying individuals of fulfilling their most basic of needs, let alone enacting it, let alone most people ensuring its continuation by paying for it. Humans excel themselves in their capacity for brutality
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If we all built our happiness upon ensuring the rights, freedoms & happiness of each other, instead of self gratification built upon the violent subjugation of others, imagine the world we could create.
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And because nobody cared, the violence continued unabated. It unfolded over decades gathering more & more victims into its innumerable ranks, its vile embrace. In the eyes of an apathetic public, this barbarous cruelty came to be seen as normal.
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Vegans are accused of “anthropomorphising” because the irrefutable fact that other animals experience emotions, pain & suffering is proof that their plight is morally significant, whereas unqualified dismissal of their plight makes it easier to be complicit in their brutal abuse
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Taken from his mother’s love & protection, his execution date is set. He’ll be killed before even reaching adulthood. His misfortune is to be born into a world of callous, indifferent humans who think that their desire for dairy products outweighs his desire to live.
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I live in a world where people ignore the fact that defenceless infant individuals are removed from their mothers’ protection & violently abused because those people refuse to witness what they pay for or alter their consumer choices.
Ierse kalveren op weg naar Nederlandse vetmesterijen.
Geen probleem vindt het
@minlnv
. We importeren er gewoon nóg meer!
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When violent ideology is so ingrained, it becomes systemic & permeates every institution. It’s taught in schools & written into government policy. Thus it becomes the social norm & people become tacit participants in the violently oppressive hegemony.
Reject violence.
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A society that allows such barbarism, such execrable, ethically bereft, violent cruelty, such refusal of moral consideration, such wanton desecration of young lives, is a society with no right to call itself civilised. One that needs its arse kicking.
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In response to unjust hierarchies of oppression, most choose to impose that tyranny upon those below them in the hierarchy, thereby upholding & reproducing the very same system of oppression. By ignoring nonhuman rights we undermine all social justice issues.
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He has been taken from his mother. His execution date is set. He will be murdered as an infant. He was force-bred into a world of callous, indifferent humans who think their desire for self gratification outweighs his desire to live.
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Daily I’m astounded by the fact that people pay for the exact same violent abuse & brutal murder of some species of animal, that would outrage them if enacted upon a dog or cat. So strange that people are comfortable with such blatant moral contradictions.
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Things I’ve learned since being
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1. Those who obediently & unquestioningly conform to the prescribed violent dogma are enlightened & those who actually interrogate, critique & reject it on informed moral grounds & risk social isolation as a result are indoctrinated. 🤪
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Exploitation of other animals is indefensible but we must look deeper & interrogate our motivations for speciesism. Our current treatment of other animals is a catalogue of unconscionable violence, but not unmotivated & senseless, self-serving incentives lurk below. . .
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Imagine thinking that the relative length of time violent abuse & killing of undeserving, defenceless individuals has endured is a moral justification for its continuation? People are prepared believe crap that wouldn’t fool a toddler, rather than change their behaviour
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When through your choices you endorse & normalise the violent abuse & killing of an individual, you set up the conditions whereby any sentient individual can be considered unworthy of moral consideration. You set up the conditions for dehumanisation.
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Vegan because I’ve got a healthy and fully functioning moral conscience.
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If you claim to stand against prejudice & injustice but consume the end products of the exploitation & killing of nonhumans then your principles are irreconcilable with your chosen actions. You are demanding, perpetuating & reproducing the injustice you claim to oppose
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Imagine your worth being measured in terms of how another may exploit your reproductive capacities, & then being considered disposable as soon as a life of being repeatedly & continuously forcibly impregnated takes its toll on your body.
Dairy is violent depravity.
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The belief in human supremacy will always result in brutally violent tyranny for fellow animals. Humans upon self-crowning themselves as masters will always subjugate other species to their will with no regard to accountability. These actions reveal only our base depravity
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If, through our ethical choices, we use our power and agency to deny power, agency, choice, freedom, bodily autonomy, rights and life itself to other individuals, then what are we?
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Vegan because when I say I stand against injustice, violence & abuses of power, I actually mean it.
Our actions speak more truthfully than our words. If what we claim is not backed up by our behaviour, it is merely empty rhetoric.
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Separating animal liberation from other social justice issues enables & reproduces all injustice. Until we recognise that hierarchical power is the underlying issue common to all oppression, we are condemned to create the conditions under which violence thrives. . . .
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Most people tell themselves that they stand for justice & would if required, fight against the violent oppression & killing of the vulnerable & the defenceless. Until of course veganism is mentioned, at which point they become vociferous defenders of abhorrent tyranny
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You have the capacity to empathise with those who are violently abused & killed for your gratification, which should elicit a reaction of horror from you, but instead nefariously you refuse to imagine their anguish & pain or dismiss it with feeble, fallacious excuses.
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Anti-Vegan logic No.23
“You’ve never been on a farm”
The idea that a person must witness violent exploitation & slaughter of fellow animals firsthand before they can formulate a moral position.
Runs on the assumption that everyone is as devoid of empathy as fharmers.
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You smell blood & hear screams of terror & agony. You’re forced forward & a bolt is smashed into your head. As you reel from the pain you’re hoisted up by your legs & a knife sears through your throat, Hot blood gushes out. Not so humane if it’s happening to you eh?
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You wash your hands of the rivers blood that you spill, you close your ears to the screams of your victims, you hide your eyes from the violence that they endure. Then unashamedly you act affronted when held to account for your actions.
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She is no longer able to stand. After years of forced pregnancy, beginning when she was 15 months old, & having each newborn child stolen from her so humans can thieve her milk, the violent abuse has rendered her disabled so she will be dragged to the slaughterhouse.
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Each & every animal individual has moral worth which cannot be reduced to their value in terms of utility to human beings. There is no moral argument to justify the exploitation & killing of these individuals. Use your moral agency to defend not to violently oppress.
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Unthinking adherence to ingrained violent societal norms is the enemy of moral progress. Social justice has never been a gift bestowed by the state upon populace, it’s always been fought for in defiance of the state.
Fight to end oppression & injustice
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Unless you are captured by an ideology that numbs you to the pain & suffering of sentient individuals, you can only feel a deep revulsion & be horrified by their treatment at the hands of those who continue to be brainwashed by the vile ideology.
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The idea that you can force breed hundreds of billions of sentient individuals into existence & enslave, violently exploit, mutilate & kill them for any imaginable purpose is both abhorrent & indefensible. It defies any moral sense or ethical reasoning.
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The terms you use to excuse the exploitation & killing of nonhuman animals serve only to comfort you. They make zero difference to those who are subjected to extreme harm & have their only lives taken from them. The only relevant perspective is theirs.
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Empathy means nothing without subsequent compassionate actions. If you see atrocities, if you imagine the perspective of the victims, but fail to end your complicity in it, then you remain as accountable as the perpetrators.
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Veganism requires very little, just empathy, compassion and a desire not to support, fund or perpetuate the basest form of brutal tyranny.
#EndSpeciesism
#Milk
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Vegan because I don’t ungenerously limit my empathy and compassion, and the principles of justice, equality and basic decency solely to my own species.
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To convince themselves they’re not merciless or devoid of empathy, humans pervert the meaning of words & use them to excuse atrocious treatment of other animals. ‘Humane’, ‘Welfare’ & ‘Compassion’ aren’t words that accurately describe systemic violence & mass slaughter
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Vegan because his life is of utmost importance to him, and that is the only morally relevant perspective.
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All animals exist for their own interests. Their lives & bodies belong solely to them alone. Their intrinsic desire to live & thrive is no different to yours. They are not born to be subordinate to human whims. Who are you to deny them their birthright & their lives?
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If you defend or habitually ignore the egregious violence inflicted daily upon countless fellow animals, you are dangerously removed from basic morality & an integral part of the reason why peaceful, harmonious societies are currently an impossibility.
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To every vegan fighting for justice for all inhabitants of this world. In the face of adversity & the feeble excuses given by those who oppose justice & ignore other’s rights, keep doing what you are doing. Without your contribution it’ll be much worse.
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Behind the mask of humanity, behind the mask of civilisation, there’s a violent, inhumane, abhorrent reality. One so habitual, so ubiquitous, so ingrained that the mask wearer seldom acknowledges, let alone reflects upon the enormity of the cruelty involved.
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People falsely claim that harming animals for their selfish purposes is natural & biologically determined, but in truth it is just a choice. It really is that simple. Your rationalisations are just transparent attempts to shut down ethical discourse.
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Saying “Vegans think they’re morally superior” is a sly & transparent attempt to shift the focus away from your own moral cowardice with an ad hominem attack. But, if judged solely upon treatment of fellow animals, then tough, we’re way better than you.
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People who demand rights for themselves & rightly get upset at any attempt to curb them, refuse to extend such considerations to other animals & conversely, believe it’s their right to deny basic rights to them. The hypocrisy & arrogance is off the scale.
Be consistent
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Society conditioned me to suppress my innate empathy, to accept violence towards nonhumans as an immutable norm & just a fact of life, anything except the indefensible choice it actually is.
Unlearn the lies you’ve been told.
Liberate yourself from systems of violence.
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Of course I’m disturbed by the endless violence inflicted upon fellow animals & the incalculable suffering they endure but equally I’m astonished & disappointed by the cold & merciless human indifference to these atrocities. Your heartless apathy enables this abuse.
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Vegan because I refuse to passively stand by whilst violent injustice prevails. Vegan because of the blatantly obvious truth that you cannot claim to oppose any violent injustice whilst simultaneously supporting violent injustice.
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If we have no empathy, no mercy, no moral consideration for the vulnerable, for the defenceless, for those unable to organise & fight back, if instead we have only regard for our own petty desires, then we lose any claim to being decent or civilised.
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Empathy is a choice to actively recognise & identify with another’s suffering & vicariously experience their feelings & thoughts. But empathy is meaningless without subsequent appropriate compassionate action. At best this is a serious character flaw.
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All a violent oppressor requires is the tacit approval of self serving apologists who ignore or even defend vile abuse because they personally benefit from these abhorrent acts.
Non vegans choose to be willingly complicit in atrocities!
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A society that normalises extreme violence towards the most vulnerable, sentient individuals is a society that lays the foundations for all violence. If you want a less violent world, then you need to stop willingly demanding & participating in violence
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Human society is built upon systemic egregious violence towards nonhuman animals. We stand perversely proud above a depraved mire of barbarous torture & murder, over industrialised atrocities we prefer not to even acknowledge & audaciously still claim to be civilised.
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Being repulsed by violence is a sign of a healthy moral conscience. Refusing to be the reason it happens is a measure of integrity. Pretending it doesn’t happen because it’s out of sight or it’s OK because you benefit from it is moral corruption.
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It is the moral imperative & responsibility of us all to ask ourselves what are the consequences of our actions & choices. If what we are doing is causing harm & suffering then, if we have anything resembling a conscience, we should immediately cease what we are doing.
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When we finally recognise commonality with nonhuman animals of this shared earth, when we’re willing to extend them rights & full moral consideration, when we cease causing them harm for our selfish purposes, only then can we consider ourselves civilised
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The word ‘humane’ means to extend kindness, mercy, or compassion, but conversely, it is also used to excuse our needless violent abuse & brutal killing of other sentient animals & to be callously & mercilessly indifferent to their plight.
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A society that teaches a child to suppress their innate empathy for fellow animals & to consider enacting brutal violence upon them as normal & acceptable, is a society that has relinquished the right to call itself civilised & has abandoned any hope of moral evolution
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You were taught to suppress your empathy & dismiss the suffering & deaths of nonhuman victims. Taught that their pain, their suffering & their lives are insignificant. Taught to be merciless.
You then teach your children the same.
You normalise tyranny.
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The existence of vegans evokes vociferous resistance from people because we remind them that they are not metaphysically bound to causing extreme harm to fellow animals; they can choose to be compassionate but for self-serving reasons, choose not to.
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Society conditioned me to ignore my moral intuition and innate empathy and accept the merciless violent abuse of vulnerable nonhuman individuals as natural & normal.
I refuse to go against my conscience and comply to such moral degeneracy.
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Most people claim to be on the side of justice & equality, that actions towards other conscious, sentient individuals matter, that harming them is wrong, yet abandon those values every time they make a consumer choice because they enjoy the end products of violence.
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Don’t speak to me of justice, ethics, or compassion when by your daily choices, callously & unthinkingly you inflict extreme harm & brutal death upon vulnerable, undeserving sentient individuals for your nonessential purposes.
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By your silence, by your refusal to see what you demand, by your refusal to imagine what your vulnerable victims endure, by your regard solely for yourself, by your passive conformity, you endorse & cause gratuitous violence & incomprehensible suffering.
#EndSpeciesism
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Those who profit from cruelty with no recourse to ethical considerations require you to abandon your principles, your empathy, your compassion, your moral decency, & to accept violence as normal.
Not caring is conformity.
Caring is an act of rebellion
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