{"id":757149,"date":"2019-05-25T08:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T12:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757149"},"modified":"2019-05-25T08:02:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T12:02:16","slug":"anyone-who-wants-justice-for-everyone-must-fight-speciesism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757149","title":{"rendered":"INGRID NEWKIRK: Anyone Who Wants Justice for Everyone Must Fight Speciesism"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>We who speak-up for animals are often told to zip-it. This isn\u2019t the time to be concerned about other species, the argument goes. That\u2019s tommyrot. We absolutely MUST NOT put animal abuse on the back burner.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>INGRID NEWKIRK:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;When human rights hang in the balance, we who speak up for animals are often told to zip it. This isn\u2019t the time to be concerned about other species, the argument goes\u2013we must first resolve the problems facing various members of our own species. That\u2019s tommyrot. We absolutely must not put animal abuse on the back burner. More power to anyone fighting any form of prejudice or abuse, but injustice is not some narrow issue that you can only care about when it affects the group that you identify with the most closely&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Believing in justice means believing in principles, understanding how it affects more than just yourself, your family, your nation, your gender, and your race&#8230; Bullying and violence aren\u2019t limited to acts against humans any more than they\u2019re limited to acts against certain races or a single gender&#8230; As Connie Salamone, founder of New York\u2019s Vegetarian Feminists\u2019 Collective said, \u201cIt\u2019s hard to argue for women\u2019s rights when your mouth is full of the remains of a small tortured bird&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>A few years ago, scientists and philosophers issued the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, calling on humanity to recognize the rights of other species and saying, \u201cThe weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Nonhuman animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess [them]&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prime.peta.org\/2019\/05\/anyone-who-wants-justice-for-everyone-must-fight-speciesism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RGA1O1PHq_g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INGRID NEWKIRK: &#8216;When human rights hang in the balance, we who speak up for animals are often told to zip it. This isn\u2019t the time to be concerned about other species, the argument goes\u2013we must first resolve the problems facing various members of our own species. That\u2019s tommyrot. 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