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07/25/04
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THE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1 ~ The Animal Rights Movement is
Dead by Robert Cohen
2 ~ Does The Animal Rights Philosophy
Exclude Animal Welfare Efforts
by
Greg Lawson
3 ~ Just What Do You Eat? by
Katie Vann
4 ~ ACT Radio
5 ~ Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels
Threaten Marine Animals
6 ~ The Voiceless by Molly
Biehl
7 ~ Memorable Quote
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The Animal
Rights Movement Is Dead
By Robert
Cohen - i4crob@earthlink.net
www.notmilk.com
"God is Dead."
Nietzsche, 1893, ('Thus spoke Zarathustra')
"Nietzsche is Dead."
God, 1900
"The Animal Rights Movement is Dead."
Robert Cohen, 2004
When King Kong lay bleeding on the streets of New York,
having been shot off the Empire State building by 1933 fighter pilots, one of
the most famous lines in all of moviedom was used to describe the tragic love
story between an 80-foot ape and Fay Wray:
"It was beauty killed the beast."
Many years from now, some future anthropologist writing a
doctoral dissertation will discover the identical reason for the death of the
animal rights (AR) movement:
Beauty (compassionate animal slaughter) killed the beast
(the AR movement).
Many activists describe themselves as animal rights
supporters. How they continue to promote compassionate animal slaughter is
beyond my understanding.
In her best-selling "Ministry of Healing," Ellen
G. White wrote:
"What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for
domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence and
affection, and willingly give them over to the butcher's knife? How could he
devour their flesh as a sweet morsel?"
Throughout history, as long as laws were passed to make
human slavery more compassionate, the horror of slavery continued. Anti-slavery
advocates danced and celebrated passage of such laws, which were celebrated by
liberals and free thinkers, but not by the slaves. To be enslaved is to know
and not accept any form of injustice. Similar laws are being passed today to
make animal suffering more tolerable on factory farms. The promotion of animal
slaughter in any form worsens the betrayal to animals. Compassionate
slaughter laws act merely to deceive human meat eaters.
Many animal rights advocates raise money to lobby Congress
to enact laws making slaughter more compassionate, as if there can ever be
justice by sanitizing murder.
This summer thousands of animal rights activists met at
dozens of conferences to support each other and a movement that in reality, no
longer exists. They have lost sight of the fact that the real animal rights
movement has died.
Compassionate slaughter does not save animals.
Compassionate slaughter relieves the consciences of those people who eat
animals. Why is it that per capita chicken and beef consumption continue to
increase?
There was a time when animal rights supporters believed that
animals deserved ethical treatment from people. The promotion of
compassionate slaughter laws has ended the real animal rights movement.
Meat eaters have been relieved of any guilt of animal
suffering. They donate to animal rights groups who claim victory each time the
floor space of a chicken's cage is increased by three or four square inches. It
feels good to believe that doomed animals have no pain. They who should
feel guilt now consume more chicken, guilt-free. More animals will die, and
they do not do so compassionately. Compassionate slaughter has became the new
ethic of the animal rights movement.
Sixty years ago, a string quartet performed Paganini and
Mozart while doomed Jews marched neatly in line to their final solution in
Treblinka's efficient human slaughterhouse. For these victims, slaughter
was made more compassionate by adding gentle classical music to their death
march. There are still some who suppose that there is no more deviant a notion
than the abstraction dubbed "compassionate slaughter." These
eccentrics have become the outcasts of the animal rights movement.
The Humane Slaughter Act was passed so that farm animals
would be "humanely killed" by compassionate killers with sharp
knives, rather then by sadistic fiends taking pleasure in causing pain to
defenseless creatures.
Oh well, little seems to have changed regarding man's
inhumanity to his fellow earthlings.
There are sanctuaries for unwanted animals, and some of my
heroes invest their lives and energies to rescuing farm animals. Gene and Lorri
of Farm Sanctuary. Eddie and Louie of Oasis. Caycee and Jason of Oohmahnee.
"Fallaces sunt rerum species."
(The appearance of things are deceptive.)
Seneca (c4 B.C.-A.D.65)
There is always a home for a cute pure bred dog. The
mixed breeds will die. The sheltered pit bulls will be euthanized. The unloved
strays will wag their tails and bark greetings of welcome to shelter
visitors. Visit your local animal shelter today, and walk down the aisles
as I recently did, saying hello and goodbye to living spirits seeking love. To
animals who will forever be orphans, until death do they part from the cruelty
of their existence.
The rats from animal experiments, when no longer needed, are
thrown together into a bucket and doused with ether, or injected with sodium
pentabarbitol, en masse, to die huddled together, body to body, in their final
resting place.
The baby male chicks are given no painkillers before the
life is crushed out of them in efficient killing machines.
The furs that humans wear are skin peeled from once-feeling
animals who have been anally electrocuted so that skin remains unscarred.
The horses that lose race after race get no pills to calm
them before being stunned more than once, for one blow rarely brings them to
their knees, before being hoisted by chains so that a man's knife can end
memories of racing around oval tracks to cheering humans.
The chickens and turkeys, one by one, throats slit, hung
upside down to squawk their dying words in gurgling blood tones.
The elephants prodded with sharp-hooked tools, made to stand
awkwardly on small stools while children applaud with glee. The castrated
dancing bears bring delight to naive circus patrons who have no awareness of
their pain, before and after the performance.
The rodeo calves and animals who run in terror as galloping
cowboys lasso ropes around their necks and then bind their legs, giving
confused animals the opportunity to ask why.
There is no rescue. There is no real sanctuary. There are
just illusions. There is only truth.
A few years ago, I listened to Ingrid Newkirk of PETA
deliver the most passionate and well-informed talk I had ever heard. Nearly one
thousand people rose to their feet for a long and powerful ovation after she
had finished. I had the very interesting perspective of sitting right next to
Dan Murphy, who is the editor of a pro-meat magazine. I love to play poker. I'm
a good card player because I watch people carefully, and over the course of an
evening's play, I watch tells, I watch faces, I watch eyes, I watch fingers, I
watch tapping on the table, and blinking, and by the end of that evening, I
know with pretty good certainty the strength of my opponent's hands.
I observed this man very carefully during Newkirk's
talk. When he applauded, his two friends applauded. He was the leader of
the group. When he smiled, they smiled.
But what disturbed me was this man gave her a standing
ovation too, along with the AR activists. He stood and applauded with
enthusiasm. It was then and there that I understood why. Americans are eating
more meat as a result of our impotent efforts.
Compassionate slaughter? I reject the concept of
compassionate slaughter. I hate the oxymoronic compassionate slaughter laws. If
the animals could talk, they would be able to tell you why they reject such
laws too. If they were the judges at the trials of Nuremberg, we who
pathetically fail to change things and make them worse would be on trial for
crimes against these innocent farmed creatures.
I want all people to see death. I want people to see
un-compassionate slaughter. I want them to see what it's really like. That's
our responsibility. Our responsibility is to accept our failures. More people
are eating meat, and what we're doing isn't working. These animals are dying,
partially, because of our misdirected efforts. We've got to reject all animal
slaughter, even compassionate animal slaughter, making the effort to insist
that no animal deserves to die.
Philosophers sometimes lack a touch of the practical.
Animal rights philosophers rarely follow the evolution of the animal rights
movement to its logical conclusion. We cannot provide sanctuary for every
farm animal. Despite the wonderful feel-good work of the good people who
run sanctuaries and solicit millions in funding, these rescued animals should
not have been born to this earth. The logical conclusion of our so-called
animal rights movement is that these sentient creatures should never be born to
suffer.
The creatures living out their lives at farm sanctuaries are
mere ambassadors representing ten billion other animals who will die this year
to feed Americans. Twenty-seven million animals each day having their
throats cut. During the time that it will take you to read this paragraph, over
fifteen thousand animals will die. Read the preceding sentence aloud. Fifteen
hundred chickens have had their throats slashed, and lay flapping atop each
other, choking on their own blood. Should not every American have the
opportunity to view that same horrible carnage that we know all to well, over
and over again? Does it really matter that each chicken spends her life in a
confinement cage containing 3 additional square inches?
Save these animals? For what, one might ask? Farm turkeys
and pigs can no longer copulate. Males are too large to mount females. Farm
"units" have been bred for high protein yield and low bone density.
They live lives of pain because their skeletons cannot adequately support their
own weight. The compassionate among us would recognize that ending their
pain is the ultimate conclusion for all who truly care about suffering. These
artificial creatures should never have been engineered nor born.
Today, the animal rights movement is misdirected. We delude
ourselves by promoting compassionate slaughter. We make it easy for these
animals to live their lives to their own painful and tortured conclusions. We
make it easy for meat consumers to veil their collective consciousness. Have
you taken note of the fact that meat eating is increasing? Our misguided
efforts are partially responsible.
We in the movement have made the journey of transition more
challenging for meat eaters. We have arrived where we now are, vegans all, by
recognizing the horror of slaughter. Groups like the People for Ethical
Treatment of Animals, Humane Society, and Farm Sanctuary lobby Congress to
change laws making it easier for animals to die. Their laws make it easier for
farmed freaks to live longer lives of pain, with the same ultimate conclusion.
Their laws relieve the consciences of carnivores.
We on this side of the fence should make it our priority to show
the meat-eating public exactly what slaughterhouses produce. The blood. The
eyes showing fear, and then pain.
Our strategy to relieve suffering relieves a universal
conscience. The same strategy that brought us to understand death through
violence should be intensified, not lessened. If all animals must die,
then all animal eaters must take responsibility for their own participation in
the slaughter. Our current strategy is to deny them their path to
truth. In doing so, we provide a rationale for increased meat
consumption. If the animals do not suffer, meat eaters reason, then there is no
reason not to eat them.
An online poll of 10,007 adult Americans describing
themselves as vegetarians (taken for TIME/CNN between April 5-9, 2002) revealed
that concerns for animal rights played little role in what people eat.
Among questions and responses:
"What was your most important reason for becoming a
vegetarian?
10% answered "Animal rights."
"Do you consider the slaughter of animals to be
murder?"
58% answered "no."
Actual food consumption values confirm the ineffective
messages being marketed by
animal rights activists.
In 1991, the average American ate 62.9 pounds of beef. That
number remained the same during 2001. This year, the average American will
eat 65 pounds of beef.
In 1991, the average American ate 62.0 pounds of chicken. By
2001, throughout a decade of protest and countless Disney rescue movies to the
contrary, the average American ate 23% more chicken. In 2001, the per capita
consumption of chicken soared to 76.5 pounds. From 2001 to 2002, chicken
consumption increased an additional five percent to 80.3 pounds per individual.
1991 beef & chicken consumption = 124.9 pounds
2001 beef & chicken consumption = 139.4 pounds
2002 beef & chicken consumption = 144.0 pounds
(These statistics were obtained from David Harvey of the
United States Department of Agriculture.)
During the past eleven years of animal rights activism,
there has been a total increase for beef and chicken consumption equal to
15.3%.
This past year, numerous laws have been passed to guarantee
compassionate animal slaughter. Such laws relieve the consciences of those
people who eat dead animals. As farm animals are treated better, rates of beef
and poultry consumption increase.
From 2001-2002, per capita beef and chicken consumption
increased by an incredible combined 3.3%, demonstrating that the current
misdirection of animal rights advocates is promoting increased meat
consumption. The deception continues, and more animals become victims to the
egos of animal rights leaders and organizations who spend millions of donated
dollars to lobby members of Congress to pass ineffective laws.
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Does The
Animal Rights Philosophy
Exclude
Animal Welfare Efforts?
By Greg
Lawson - ParkStRanger@aol.com
Here at Animal Rights Online we recognize the fact that
there are a lot of different viewpoints within our movement: from those who
believe in working on animal protection legislation to those who think the
system is corrupt, and that only direct action will lead to animal
liberation. There are those who think that animal welfare and animal
rights are in opposition. Personally, I don't.
I love Robert Cohen, I think of him as a brother.
Seven years ago, when I met him, heard him speak and read his book Milk, the
Deadly Poison, I went vegan. I will always remember the effect he has had
on my life.
We decided to run his article this week because we believe
many of the points he makes have validity. But I disagree with his
suggestion that Animal Rights conferences are just events where we can pat each
other on the back. The Farm Animal Reform Movement annual conference,
AR2004, which recently took place just outside Washington, D.C. is a lot more
than just a mutual congratulatory society. New activists to the cause
were given new ideas and new tools to assist them in the fight for better
conditions for the animals and their ultimate liberation.
As Robert points out from his information gathered from the
Department of Agriculture (an agency we should distrust in my opinion), meat
consumption has gone up. Certainly meat production has gone up, our
country is exporting a lot more meat to other countries (except for beef,
because of that pesky mad cow problem we have in our country. Other
nations seem to realize that there is a cover-up of that situation).
I tend to believe that meat consumption is up because
meat-eaters are eating more meat, not because the Animal Rights movement is
failing. Too many meat-eating zombies have latched on to the Atkins Diet
and other low carb regimes.
Too many zombies believe that just by eating lower on the
food chain, eating mostly fish and chicken, that's somehow healthier.
They believe that these animal products are lower in fat. They believe it is
somehow more humane because such creatures have less developed brains. Any
creature with a brain (or even a rudimentary nervous system) should have the
right to seek it's own survival, to seek pleasure rather than pain, and we as
humans, with a sense of moral responsibility, should recognize their rights.
The fact is, there is a growth in vegetarianism and veganism
especially among teens who are choosing a plant based diet for ethical
reasons. Sure, there are studies that say some of them have eating
disorders, some of them just want to be thin and therefore eschew meat and
dairy. That isn't the main reason that more people are going veg, and we
shouldn't focus on that. From my experience, young people are making
decisions based on ethics.
More zombies are just eating more meat.
More zombies are teaching their kids to eat meat.
For many years into the future, people will be eating eggs
and products that contain eggs and using products that contain expended layer
hens like chicken soup and pet food. We in the Animal Rights Movement
won't be changing that fact anytime soon.
In the meantime, shouldn't we work toward eliminating
battery cages like they are doing in Europe, to give those birds who will
certainly die, a more natural life? Sure in the short term, meat eating
zombies will feel better about eating chicken.
But if chickens have to die, shouldn't they have lived a
life as free range birds?
Last week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,
released captured video footage of workers at a Pilgrims Pride slaughterhouse
in West Virginia, a supplier for KFC, torturing chickens, apparently just for
fun. Eleven workers including 3 managers were fired, but that was only
because this abuse came to light. This kind of abuse is typical in the
meat industry.
These people should be prosecuted, should lose their jobs
and be imprisoned.
I don't think that sending these people to jail would be a
bad idea. I don't think that the fight for animal welfare is a bad
idea. I don't think the Animal Rights Movement is dead. I think we
need to keep fighting for the freedom of all animals, for animal rights and for
animal welfare.
That's just my opinion though.
We respect all opinions in the fight for Animal Liberation.
[Editor's Note: For further information about Peta's KFC
supplier video, see the following website:]
PETA TV > Animal Rights Television
http://www.petatv.com/
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Just What
Do You Eat?
By Katie
Vann - Vann167@aol.com
I’m 17 years old and the only vegan in my high school.
When people mention my name it is often followed by the statement “Oh yeah,
she’s a vegan.” While I am especially proud of my reputation as an animal
activist, I am also surprised time and time again by all the misconceptions
teenagers (and adults as well) have of a vegan diet. After I explain to
them that it simply means I do not consume anything that comes from an animal,
my response is met with a shocked face and posed with the question “just what
do you eat
then?”
I never could just think of a simple answer to this.
Being a vegan is just a part of my life, and I enjoy a wide variety of tasty
foods – to name them all would be absurd. Differentiating
between what foods are vegan and what appear to be vegan, except for that
dreaded last ingredient that always seems to pop up ruining the purity of the
entire product, is a difficult process that takes some getting used to.
Once you are used to it, reading ingredients on products is an easy aspect of
veganism. Going to restaurants or fast food places and asking for
ingredient lists or whether their food contains animal products is a whole other
experience in itself. Seldom do local waitstaff at restaurants know what
mono and diglycerides is so asking them whether or not a product is vegan is
never an easy task. One resource I have relied on is the internet.
Ingredient lists can often times be found on fast food chain websites along
with their nutrition information. It takes some time, but eventually you
figure out and remember what you can eat at each restaurant in your
neighborhood and fast food chains.
Most people usually don't have the time to research their
foods. Luckily, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ website
for teenagers called PETA2.com has begun to compile website lists of some of
the different vegan products that can be found just down the street at a local
711, in a supermarket, in a restaurant, or at a fast food joint. So
whether you are an experienced vegan shopper who knows most of these products
already or whether you are a vegetarian or meat eater in the process of
converting to a vegan diet, these websites contain a plethora of common
everyday foods that are vegan. Whenever you feel like you
are getting overwhelmed or need some inspiration be sure to check out
these websites available from PETA2.com:
For the Fast Food Fanatic… http://www.peta2.com/stuff/s-eat2.html
For the Late Night 711 Stop…
http://www.peta2.com/stuff/s-eat.html
For the Those Who Enjoy Their Kitchen...
http://www.peta2.com/stuff/s-recipeold.html
For the Restaurant Type…
http://www.peta2.com/stuff/s-eat1.html
For the Mall Shopping Break…
http://www.peta2.com/stuff/s-eat3.html
For the Supermarket Run…
http://www.peta2.com/stuff/s-accvegan.html
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ACT Radio
Be sure to listen to ACT, Animal Concerns of Texas with
cohosts Greg Lawson, Dr. Steve Best and Dr. Elizabeth Walsh tonight, July 25,
at 7:30pm Mountain time. We will be talking with Lt. Sherry Schlueter, an
animal law enforcement officer who helped create Florida's felony animal cruelty
law in 1989. Sherry was one of the keynote speakers at the recent
conference Animal Rights 2004.
ACT can be heard on the web with Real Radio, which is a free
download. Click here to listen to Act. El Paso NPR - KTEP 88.5 :
National Public Radio for the Southwest
http://www.ktep.org/
Click here for an archive of our past shows...
http://utminers.utep.edu/best/ACT/AnimalConcernsofTexas.htm
Animal Concerns of Texas
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Rising
Carbon Dioxide Levels
Threaten
Marine Animals
By Dennis
O'Brien
Sun Staff
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.oceans16jul16,0,6046636.story?coll=bal-health-headlines
Studies show it interferes with shell formation; North
Atlantic has highest levels; Separate report suggests new approach to fisheries
July 16, 2004: The world's oceans not only have fewer fish
these days, but carbon dioxide pollution threatens the survival of shellfish,
coral and other hard-bodied sea animals, researchers said in three studies
released today.
"The chemistry of seawater is changing in dramatic ways
and it's having a significant impact on organisms that live in the water,"
said Richard Feely, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration in Seattle who studied carbon dioxide's effect on marine life.
Meanwhile, another group of international scientists called
for overhauling management of the world's fisheries, citing declining fish
populations.
Taken together, the reports in today's issue of the journal
Science paint a bleak picture of the oceans' ability to sustain current levels
of aquatic life.
Numerous studies have documented how rising carbon dioxide
levels - largely from the burning of fossil fuels - are affecting climate, human
health and vegetation. But scientists are just beginning to understand their
effect on the seas.
"Up until recently, the ocean's ability to take up so
much carbon dioxide has been seen as a good thing, but it's becoming increasing
apparent it can also have adverse effects," said Ken Caldeira, a
researcher at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
In its research, NOAA analyzed 72,000 ocean water samples
collected by scientists around the world between 1989 and 1998.
One study found that since 1800, the oceans have absorbed
118 billion metric tons of carbon, making the seas a "sink" for half
the fossil fuel emissions since the dawn of the industrial revolution. And 1.9
billion tons of carbon are being added each year, scientists said.
[See the rest of this story at
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.oceans16jul16,0,6046636.story?coll=bal-health-headlines
]
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The
Voiceless
There's
problems in the world today
Too many
to explain
And if
someone doesn't like something
They're
entitled to complain.
But what
about those who have no voice,
No words
for us to hear.
They never
get to have a choice,
They live
in pain and fear.
They are
the animals of the world;
No one can
hear them cry.
But just
because they can't speak out
Should
they have to die?
"They're
not as intelligent,
They
aren't people! What's with all this fuss?"
What if a
person isn't very smart,
Can't he
feel pain like us?
Can't he
feel and suffer and think?
Or doesn't
he have a soul?
Something
has got to change.
This world
is out of control.
Until we
protect the most innocent ones,
Those who
cannot fight,
This
cannot be a peaceful world
This world
cannot be right.
Copyright
© 2001 by Molly Biehl. All Rights Reserved
May be
used in unchanged form by avowed Animal Rightists if accompanied by this
copyright message.
Animal
Rights Counterculture
http://www.animalsong.org
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Memorable
Quote
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exercise ... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect.
This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable,
scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed,
Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland."
~ Leopold
Von Sacher-Masoch
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