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The Repercusions of What You Eat

Stephen — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:40:49 +0000

The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter Peter Singer & Jim Mason This study covers a lot of ground, tracing back and examining the implications of where our food comes from. Basically it is divided into three sections and each revolves around a family and their eating habits. It goes from a standard [...]

PETA Does Seoul Fashion Week

Stephen — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:55:50 +0000

PETA were in Seoul for a couple of campaigns at the end of March, and one of them was to take the I’d-rather-go-naked campaign to Seoul Fashion Week. I was there helping them on behalf of KARA and my wife assisted by handing out leaflets. Here’s part of PETA’s media release: PETA wants fashion week attendees [...]

New Animal Rights Website Launched!

Stephen — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:11:14 +0000

A famous animal rights activist named Henry Spira used to look upon his actions and successes as “pushing the peanut forward.” In an effort to contribute to the same, I have been working on this website for the Korea Animal Rights Advocates group, or KARA. I suggested I build them a new English version of their [...]

In Your Face Vegetarianism

Stephen — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:03:21 +0000

Skinny Bitch Rory Freedman & Kim Barnouin When you open this book, it grabs you by the collar and hits you over the head. These girls get right to the point in a book that’s packed full of information and goes in directions I hadn’t expected. It has its place, I guess, and I do applaud its [...]

Seoul Girls For Animal Rights

Stephen — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:42:41 +0000

Members of KARA campaigning for animal rights Last Saturday afternoon, down by Seoul’s City Hall, members of Korea Animal Rights Advocates (KARA) met for an afternoon’s campaigning. They turned up with paper-bag masks depicting the main group of land animals slaughtered for meat in Korea, including dogs. So, there were masks representing dogs, cows, chickens and [...]

More Barbarity On The Streets of Seoul

Stephen — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:58:14 +0000

Yet again, primitive and barbaric behavior has been directed against innocent animals at a protest demonstration in Korea. In the picture above, pheasants are being slaughtered at a rally against Japan’s reiterated claims to territorial rights of Dokdo, a small group of rocky islands between Korea and Japan. Japan had published the claims in some [...]

Buffoons and Clowns: Complicity in Complacence

Stephen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:11:48 +0000

I haven’t said much about the dog eating industry in this country. It’s a disgrace, but perhaps no more of a disgrace that the rest of the meat industry. However, the other day, after I came across a blog post by someone I would call a dog eating apologist, I decided to respond. My ire was [...]

Animals Deserve Justice Too

Stephen — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:30:43 +0000

Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals Steven M. Wise

It&#8217;s all just common sense, really. People might get bogged down in the legal jargon and concepts in this book, and that is what disappointed me&#8212;not the text but the fact that it might have turned other readers off the important message. However, there&#8217;s no [...]

No Dog’s Life in Afghanistan

Stephen — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:16:17 +0000

It was a case of double take when I saw this image from a recent suicide attack in Afghanistan. You will see what I mean after reading the caption that went with it. An Afghan police man stands guard near the damaged police vehicles at the site of a suicide attack on the western edge of [...]

Moron Speaks Without Dominion

Stephen — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:15:44 +0000

I couldn’t resist noting an article I stumbled across that had me both despairing and chuckling at the same time. It relates to another report from earlier this year, as found here. Animal cruelty-accused cites man’s ‘dominion’ By Vikki Campion December 21, 2007 04:00am A CANADIAN zookeeper who imprisoned a kangaroo in a tiny cage has drawn on the [...]

Clear Perception

Stephen — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:05:57 +0000

“At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again [...]

Exposing the Beast: Factory Farming Must be Called to the Slaughterhouse

Stephen — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:40:54 +0000

J.M. Coetzee won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003. This is an edited version of a speech he gave February 22, 2007, in Australia. To any thinking person, it must be obvious there is something terribly wrong with relations between human beings and the animals they rely on for food. It must also be obvious [...]

Evolution for Dummies

Stephen — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:35:49 +0000

We are all animals of evolution: Australopithecines first walked upright: 3.5+ million years ago. First appearance of Homo: about 2 million years ago. First stone tools/weapons: about 2 million years ago. First handaxes: about 1.6 million years ago. First appearance of Homo sapiens: about 100,000 years ago. First hafted weapons: 25-100,000 years ago. First known migration by boat (Australia colonised): 50,000 years [...]

Animal Liberation from Human Dictatorship

Stephen — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:30:09 +0000

On Ethics and the New Animal Liberation Movement PETER SINGER This book provides a platform for the new animal liberation movement. A diverse group of people share this platform: university philosophers, a zoologist, a lawyer, militant activists who are ready to break the law to further their cause, and respected political lobbyists who are entirely at home [...]

A Hierarchy of Idiocy

Stephen — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 06:14:31 +0000

Further to the argument against dominion over animals. . . Just below you will see a depressing set of statistics that has left me a bit dumbfounded. Can it really be possible, I mean, really, that huge numbers of people on this planet are stuck in a kind of mental time warp, where they insist on [...]

Julie MacDonald: The Witch and the Wildlife

Stephen — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:33:36 +0000

You’d be a fool to expect that women, society’s traditional nurturers, can be more trustworthy to do the right thing by other creatures sharing the planet. You’d be a fool to think they have a sense of moral propriety inherently superior to men. Some of them are just evil bitches, and you’d be a fool [...]

A Museum of Misinformation

Stephen — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 14:03:18 +0000

“. . . not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.” Samuel Johnson The opening of the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, represents yet another dubious addition to Christianity’s long history of misinformation. It’s more like a kiddies fantasy fun park than a place of serious scholarly record, although [...]

Protesting with Emotion

Stephen — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:19:56 +0000

(My apologies for some of the pixelated photographs that follow. I would most certainly have shown the uncensored versions if I could have obtained them.) A primitive mentality operates behind the idea of seeking out scapegoats as objects of sin. It is a delusional action that goes back to the days before science and rationality. Yet [...]

Well, it’s about this . . .

Stephen — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:21:25 +0000

. . . among other things. The advocacy of animal rights or animal liberation is all about seeking to protect non-human animals from being used, abuse or regarded as property by humans. Animal rights movements aim not only to attain more humane treatment for animals, but also to support moral consideration for species other than human [...]

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Stephen — Sun, 20 May 2007 10:21:47 +0000

On Vegetarianism Most of the following is from http://www.ivu.org/news/1-96/shelley.html In 1812, through William Godwin’s son, the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley met John Frank Newton, the author of The Return to Nature which strongly advocated the vegetarian diet. Newton was a highly educated person who had formerly been at Christ Church College Oxford and intended to [...]