tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799660367320178164.post8127845815076342266..comments2023-11-05T03:34:05.463-08:00Comments on The Vegan Street Blog from the Vegan Feminist Agitator: Yes, All Farmed AnimalsMarlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17051769657129028820noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799660367320178164.post-22940245275768223422014-06-23T06:54:55.980-07:002014-06-23T06:54:55.980-07:00Anonymous, what do you expect to be told by a slau...Anonymous, what do you expect to be told by a slaughterhouse worker for goodness sake?! Also, check your facts,as in UK foxhounds and hunt kennels are thriving since the hunting ban because whole new groups of people who felt they could not ethically go hunting can now have the experience. Its called drag hunting, following a deliberately marked trail. <br />Factory farmed animals have zero life of any quality whatsover, and pastured animals only live a few weeks or months of what could have been 15 years for pigs and sheep and 25 years for cattle. None of them have the space to roam freely, select mates or stay with family. The males are all castrated except for a few who are masturbated for their sperm endlessly, with which the females are all raped. Please don't try denying the truth that their lives are miserable and unnatural and their deaths are bloody and violent.<br />Also it is very destructive to the environment, the way they are fed on grains grown in places where irreplaceable rainforests were cut down and indigenous humans lost their homes. The amount of water, fuel and resources required to transport, render, refrigerate and market the resulting meat, and to dispose of the blood and offal, is massive. Not to mention the methane from billions of burping farting cows, and the effluent runoff and dying oceans from the pollution.<br />At least you admit that the current species deliberately bred to grow fastest and maximise profit results in serious health issues should they live more than a few months, but this is reason to cease breeding any more, surely, and not as justification for continuing the<br /> abusive practise?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17627131095850440742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799660367320178164.post-39629774142635412772014-06-23T06:28:30.464-07:002014-06-23T06:28:30.464-07:00Just have to say that we have farm animals because...Just have to say that we have farm animals because we farm them. They have a life because their life benefits us. If everyone stopped eating meat these animals have no habitat. Look at what happened to hunting dogs when they introduced a ban on fox hunting- they we're put to sleep. I disagree with intensive farming of animals-no one wants to see animals kept in these conditions, and therefore I make the choice to buy my beef from a friend who works in a slaughterhouse so I know as a fact that these animals had a good quality life, and probably a far better one than if they were "wild" which is a cruel thing to do to animals that have been bred for domestic purposes. We have created sub species of sheep cow and pigs that once past eating age develop serious health issues and are completely dependent on us for life and that cannot be undone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799660367320178164.post-18223241822644878002014-06-18T14:58:49.303-07:002014-06-18T14:58:49.303-07:00YES!!!!
Absolutely awesome post Marla, thank you!...YES!!!!<br /><br />Absolutely awesome post Marla, thank you!! xoxo<br /><br />/Users/Guest/Desktop/tumblr_m6d6e1RPsQ1qih9gi_zpsf5444de0.gif~c200.gifFireweednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799660367320178164.post-79298604934223358612014-06-18T14:58:14.297-07:002014-06-18T14:58:14.297-07:00YES!!!!
Absolutely awesome post Marla, thank you!...YES!!!!<br /><br />Absolutely awesome post Marla, thank you!! xoxo<br /><br />/Users/Guest/Desktop/tumblr_m6d6e1RPsQ1qih9gi_zpsf5444de0.gif~c200.gifFireweednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799660367320178164.post-20401207660548157492014-06-14T00:09:46.140-07:002014-06-14T00:09:46.140-07:00Still making the old excuses? The bottom line is t...Still making the old excuses? The bottom line is that ALL milk, egg, and meat consumption inevitably entails the deliberate confinement, enforced breeding, denial of right to roam, family life, ability to choose of fellow beings. I used to care for ex battery hens and know how many people use this as their excuse to eat the eggs of those poor creatures. Even if you don't pay the f(h)armer for these birds you are still perpetuating the system which exploits them. No level of animal use or exploitation is free from control (disguised as safety, care, and yes even rescue).<br /> Excusitarian non vegan rescuers I am calling you out here: you will bristle, plump yourself up and protest loudly, but until you are out of the system you won't appreciate how its all connected. We need to step clear and free from it all before our awareness fully opens. Factory farms, and cage manufacturers are very happy indeed to be providing the source of your self righteous little hobby, which is legitimising the ongoing enslavement that is the animal holocaust. It hurts to realise this. I was a passionate horse lover and tried every way I could to continue exploiting my beloved horses, such as natural horsemanship, bitless, shoeless, loose rein equine-guided trekking, open access shelters etc etc. Eventually my conscience rang too shrilly to be ignored, and I gave it all away to the kindest, least exploitative friend I knew. Animals deserve better than this, they want their authentic lives back, and genuine freedom. Now I use all that freed up energy to campaign for those still suffering.<br /> Just because humans have deliberately bred creatures seemingly incapable of surviving away from our "care" cannot justify what is happening to the ones already here. Put yourself in their position.........if the cages / corrals were opened they'd run away, and you would too. This is part of the difference between all the welfarist arguments and abolitionism. All animal use has to end, and those remaining in the system provided space as free from intervention and confinement as possible, until their natural deaths. It is a huge responsibility, but humanity totally owes it for all the centuries of enslavement and war upon animals for which we are to blame.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17627131095850440742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799660367320178164.post-55593897589181357102014-06-13T15:39:30.898-07:002014-06-13T15:39:30.898-07:00Thank you for making the connections between speci...Thank you for making the connections between speciesism and misogyny so well, Marla. Another brilliant essay.Michelle Watershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11268822572350529527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799660367320178164.post-1411403858762144112014-06-13T09:05:17.899-07:002014-06-13T09:05:17.899-07:00great post!great post!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799660367320178164.post-84145980167592674532014-06-11T16:06:35.154-07:002014-06-11T16:06:35.154-07:00Thank you, Evie!Thank you, Evie!Marlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17051769657129028820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799660367320178164.post-80729104895832994262014-06-11T16:06:25.604-07:002014-06-11T16:06:25.604-07:00Thank you, J.J.! I will, WILL contribute. :DThank you, J.J.! I will, WILL contribute. :DMarlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17051769657129028820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799660367320178164.post-29425309244017323702014-06-11T12:59:37.606-07:002014-06-11T12:59:37.606-07:00Beautifully said. thank you Marla!Beautifully said. thank you Marla!Evienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799660367320178164.post-31467300569415496292014-06-11T10:31:19.375-07:002014-06-11T10:31:19.375-07:00Thankful for this. Intersectionality. Deep ecology...Thankful for this. Intersectionality. Deep ecology.<br /><br />Hey, just so you know, I'm launching a radical vegan ecofeminist zine this summer - you must, MUST contribute.<br /><br />Call for submissions forthcoming.<br /><br />xoAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17373885611774503010noreply@blogger.com