The Purity Test That Hurts Animals: When veganism turns into ideology
The Purity Test That Hurts Animals: When veganism turns into ideology
When a guardian demands that a cat eat plants to satisfy a human standard of purity, the animal stop being recognised as a distinct, respected creature. Instead, it becomes a ‘little human in a fur coat’, tolerated only insofar as it mirrors the guardian’s personal values. True anti-speciesism demands that we accept non-human animals in their full biological integrity, rather than making our protection conditional on whether their evolutionary nature fits our moral aesthetic. This double standard exposes a deep flaw in dogmatic thinking. ROSIE TRENTA: Two social media posts in as many days exposed a profound moral derailment at the […]
Wild Flourishing: Should animals have territorial rights?
Wild Flourishing: Should animals have territorial rights?
U.S. state governments and governments around the world routinely treat nonhuman animals as resources to be counted, managed, controlled, and, when deemed convenient, killed. Terms such as ‘ecosystem integrity,’ and even ‘biodiversity’ frequently obscure that animals are individuals and members of social communities with relationships, knowledge, traditions, and homes of their own. Yet policymakers continue to permit killing animals for recreational purposes through hunting. They fail to build enough wildlife crossings and allow development to fragment, and sometimes even destroy, the territories on which wild animal peoples depend. MARC BEKOFF: Philosophers, legal scholars, and people interested in the growing, diverse field […]
ANIMAL LOVERS: FBI will now allow people who have engaged in bestiality and animal cruelty to become agents
ANIMAL LOVERS: FBI will now allow people who have engaged in bestiality and animal cruelty to become agents
The new FBI hiring standards came out in a memo quietly issued by the bureau in June, which announced that applicants who had previously hired sex workers, stolen from employers, or engaged in bestiality and animal cruelty (as long as it happened before an applicant turned 18) are no longer disqualified from becoming federal agents. BRETT MEISELAS: The world’s largest animal rights organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, is horrified that FBI Director Kash Patel is making it easier for people who have engaged in bestiality to become FBI agents. After a ridiculous exchange between Patel and […]
