GET REAL: Misleading portrayals of farmed animals on television matter
GET REAL: Misleading portrayals of farmed animals on television matter
Television frequently presents farmed animals as unintelligent, interchangeable commodities rather than as individuals with distinct personalities, preferences, social relationships and emotional lives. Scientific understanding of animal cognition and behavior has developed dramatically over recent decades, yet public portrayals often lag behind the evidence. Where evidence demonstrates complexity, intelligence and emotional capacity, those realities should not be obscured, minimized or cast into doubt without justification. It should also accurately portray the conditions animals are kept in. Television should reflect what we know about animals, not what tradition, convenience or cultural habit has led us to assume about them. EDIE BOWLES: Television does more […]
Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bias: Affirming equal moral worth for all beings
Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bias: Affirming equal moral worth for all beings
Humanity’s perception of animals is shaped by a complex hierarchy of biases inherited through culture, religion, indoctrination, and social conditioning. At the foundation of this system is the belief that humans hold the highest moral value. Anthropocentrism teaches us that human worth is paramount, while the lives of other beings are secondary. It is why human suffering is treated as tragedy, while animal suffering is dismissed as ‘negligable’. When we dismantle the hierarchy, we dismantle the illusion of supremacy. And in doing so, we begin to build a world where every being is valued for its existence, not its utility. ROLAND […]
The Extraction Matrix: Why human liberation is impossible without animal justice
The Extraction Matrix: Why human liberation is impossible without animal justice
Human liberation is entirely bound up in the liberation of the planet. When we poison water for profit, the land cannot heal; when we dominate the living world, our own suffering only deepens. You cannot truly free the worker while the animal stays caged. Ultimately, moving past this exploitation means recognizing a simple structural and personal truth: we were never separate from this ecosystem to begin with. This is one fight. It always was. KRISTIANA MILLIKEN: Language has a funny way of hiding structural violence. We are taught to compartmentalize our activism, operating under the implicit assumption that human rights, labor […]
