{"id":772077,"date":"2023-04-03T07:51:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T11:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=772077"},"modified":"2023-04-03T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T12:50:18","slug":"without-consent-new-exhibit-exposes-violent-history-of-animal-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=772077","title":{"rendered":"HATE HAS A HOME: Woke… except for my beef bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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In the entire history of Woke politics has anyone yelled \u201cspeciesist\u201d when someone tucks into a shrimp stir-fry? How many homes with signs on the lawn that say \u201cHate Has No Home Here\u201d have an embarrassment of meat, poultry, eggs and dairy products in their refrigerator? Doesn\u2019t \u201cno hate\u201d include animals?<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

MARTHA ROSENBERG:<\/strong> It is amazing how many Woke people are not vegan. Their anti-racism, anti-white supremacy, anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia and anti-Asian discrimination credentials are impeccable\u2026and then they reach for their Thai chicken or beef bowl. What?<\/em><\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t speciesism\u2013believing that humans rule over other species and have the right to use them however they wish\u2013showcase the nexus of all power relationships\u2013exploitation and opportunism? Isn\u2019t \u201cI think you would make a nice meal so I am killing you\u201d the ultimate inequity?<\/em><\/p>\n

Animal agriculture\u2019s carbon footprint and farmland misuse, its worker and animal abuse, its economic absurdity and human health consequences should make it the first step on a Woke journey. Certainly early Woke leaders like Alice Walker and Angela Davis embrace it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cesar Chavez said \u201cI became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I agree with Chavez, Davis and Walker. But because veganism requires a real change in lifestyle and mindful discipline three times a day too many will not make the commitment and do not even want to see it as an extension of their politics.<\/em><\/p>\n

Veganism especially does not lend itself to identity politics. Identity politics have emboldened activists to yell \u201cracist\u201d or \u201ctransphobe\u201d when they perceive microagression in a person, group or institution. Yet in the entire history of Woke politics has anyone yelled \u201cspeciesist\u201d when someone tucks into a shrimp stir-fry?<\/em><\/p>\n

Probably not! But vegans ask what gives humans the right to not only breed and eat shrimp but remove their eyes to facilitate better breeding \u2013 which few realize is done? How many homes with signs on the lawn that say \u201cHate Has No Home Here\u201d have an embarrassment of meat, poultry, shrimp, eggs and dairy products in their refrigerator? Doesn\u2019t \u201cno hate\u201d include animals?<\/em><\/p>\n

And there is another ethical question. Why should it be racist to name countries that indulge in wildlife breeding and wet markets, whaling, bullfights, cockfights et cetera but not speciesist of those countries when they engage in such cruelty which somehow cannot be called out? If humans who are defended against racism are allowed to do whatever they want to animals isn\u2019t that just saying\u2013again!\u2013that humans are more important than animals?…<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks to undercover investigations, no one today can claim they don\u2019t know about sow gestation crates, veal huts, downer cattle, male chicks ground alive, chickens boiled alive and other practices of modern animal agriculture. Moreover, a cornucopia of meat substitutes exists that make the \u201creal thing\u201d unnecessary.<\/em><\/p>\n

Anyone who is Woke because of their stand on racism, white supremacy, anti-immigrationism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Asianism, ageism, climate change and more needs to do soul searching if there is meat on their plate. Silence may be compliance but when it comes to animal abuse, biting is also compliance. SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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