#anti speciesism

[wanderingcritter]

I think we need to normalize using "people" as a species neutral word.

Like idk in my brain the word people just doesn't automatically = human. To me it's just a way to signify intelligence and individuality, and to emphasize the need for respect towards another creature, not specific to any one species.

Dogs can be people, mice can be people, dragons can be people, humans can be people, birds can be people, elves can be people, robots can be people, and so on.

It's also (in my opinion) just much easier than always saying "beings" or "individuals" when referring to varying assortments of creatures.

[veganpropaganda]

"A telling example of the impulse to project human stereotypes of disability onto other animals can be found in the story of Mozu, a snow monkey (a Japanese macaque) who was born in Japan’s central highlands. Mozu was born with abnormalities of her hands and feet thought to have resulted from pesticide pollution. Snow monkeys spend much of their time moving through trees, which allows them to avoid wading through the thick snow that covers the ground in the winter months. Mozu’s disabilities meant she was mostly unable to move through the branches; instead she traveled the nearly two miles that her troop covered every day in search of food by alternately walking on her abnormal limbs and crawling and sliding on the forest floor. When Mozu was born, researchers who had been watching this troop feared she would not make it past infancy. To their surprise, Mozu lived for nearly three decades, rearing five children of her own and becoming a prominent troop member.

In an episode of the program Nature featuring Mozu’s story, she is again and again referred to as “inspiring,” “suffering,” and a “very special monkey.” The dramatic music and voice-overs that describe Mozu’s struggle in vivid detail make it nearly impossible to watch her move across the snowy forest floor, a baby clinging to her belly and other monkeys flying by above her, without thinking, “Poor Mozu!”

At the same time, I am aware that the piece was edited to elicit this reaction. There are few shots in which Mozu is not struggling, and I question the effect the videographers had on her and the troop. In one scene her desperation seems to stem from being chased by the cameraperson. The music and voice-overs of course also add a sense of struggle to Mozu’s story.

Yet I have no doubt that life was hard for Mozu, and I find myself desperate to know what she thought of her situation. Was her instinct to reach for the trees unquenchable? Was she always in pain, exhausted, or fearful as she moved slowly across the forest floor? Did she wonder why she was different from her companions? I cannot help but wonder, although I realize how similar these thoughts are to the tiresome questions I have been asked again and again about my own life, my own disability. My desire for Mozu’s life not to be seen as one of suffering and struggle is also a projection, one that wishes disability empowerment onto my fellow primate. Our human perspective shapes how we interpret Mozu’s experience.

Many of our ideas about animals are formed by our assumption that only the “fittest” animals survive, which negates the value and even the naturalness of such experiences as vulnerability, weakness, and interdependence. When disabilities occur, we assume that “nature will run her course,” that the natural process for a disabled animal is to die, rendering living disabled animals not only aberrant but unnatural."

-- Sunaura Taylor, "Animal crips" in Disability and Animality: Crip perspectives in Critical Animal Studies.

[changecomesforyou]

my ratssss. from top to bottom: Flint, Rackham, Silver; and Max in the green blanket<3

[anarchogrind]

The death metal band “Cattle Decapitation” has a pretty interesting concept: as the name may suggest, the way they talk about violence towards men is a way of denouncing the abuses animals suffer from the mankind. The frontman Travis Ryan is openly environmentalist and vegetarian. It’s rare to find a popular band that open minded. Their covers are also really cool, as their music. Love it.

[fanfictionroxs]

what are ethics, rights and justice in the face of tastebuds and superiority complex, am I rite? 🙄

[rubberbandorchiectomy]

Death to speciesists

[nebulaofchaosandwoe]

What does being vegan mean to you? You’re valid either way, sometimes vegan discourse can get complicated but curious about your perspective of it.

Thank you for asking!! I admit that I've been expecting nervously for this ask for a long time lol

If you google the definition of vegan you'll find the answers that most vegans are comfortable in using, but I don't really agree to those.

For me (and some other people) veganism isn't a diet, or a philosophy or a lifestyle. It is a political movement which aims to fight animal exploitation in all forms AND this is fight against the oppression of both human and non-human animals.

It doesn't mean transforming the slaughter more "humanitarian". It doesn't mean buying "vegan food" from brands and companies that clearly profit by animal exploitation. It doesn't mean defending dogs, pigs and cows but excusing all the oppression against humans - be it racism, ableism, misoginy, lgbtphobia and even slavery. The amount of vegans that excuse those is disgustingly HUGE!

Besides going against all of the things mentioned above, the vegan movement is also pretty much anti-capitalist. We fight for a world in which non-human animals are free to live their own lives in nature without suffering. We fight for a world in which humans get to live their own lives without suffering too - meaning that everyone gets access to their basic rights as humans. It is a world where everyone has access to nutritive food, education, culture, healthcare; it is a place where we can express ourselves without fearing for our lives. And we can't do any of that without fighting this system that is literally based upon oppression against all forms of life!!

Also, I'm not vegan because I feel pity for cows. Of course I do, but I didn't join the movement just because of an emotion. It's more like a sense of empathy and fairness you know? No one deserves a life like that, specially once we know that this suffering is completely unnecessary.

There's actually a name for this part of the movement, I'm not sure of the translation for English but it would be something like "political/popular veganism" while the one that doesn't see the social aspect as important is called "liberal veganism".

This is too long already I'm so sorry, but if you want to learn more about it, I recommend a lot Carol J. Adams' work and Sabrina Fernandes' channel on youtube, 'Tese Onze'. She has a playlist about this subject, some have subtitles in English, and it is just 🤌✨. She's incredible, pls go watch it!!

This one is my favorites and it sums up what I've just said: https://youtu.be/3sYc358yPas

Ty sm for asking and feel free to ask me anything else! I'm more than happy to help :3

[in3vitabl3]

Sweet tooth

[nonvogliofarmileggere]

Quando ti viene il vomito perché la tua coinquilina cucina una salsiccia non sai se è un traguardo vegano o debolezza

[tales-of-witchery]

The antispeceism leaving my body as soon as a mosquito bites me (I am allergic to mosquitoes)

[lilacpinkflower]

both me and Kaira my dog are on our periods♀♡

[veganpropaganda]

We make speciesism socially acceptable by telling ourselves formalised, systemic violence is a necessity. We weave the deceitful narrative that nonhuman animals' place in the world is below us, to be used by us -- at 'best' as an accessory. Much like all oppressions, speciesism and ableism are linked in that all those complicit weaponise ideas of rationality, morality and civility by internalising the indoctrination that nonhumans and disabled people don't feel, are less intelligent, or capable than us leading to their socially inferior position

- Aiyana Goodfellow, Radical Companionship: Rejecting Pethood & Embracing Our Multispecies World

[friendlystarfruit]

Green d: and along with that as I mentioned before girls are stereotyped as more squeamish than guys especially girly girls And unexpected to see fish as gross and off putting.

ya sometimes that makes me sad I understand people may have phobias of bugs and fish but I feel society projects that a bit including gender roles........ because fish are lil thinking beings they deserve love and respect they do not deserve the suffering and mass exploitation humans inflict on them ....

for me animals are so healing , when I see a bug or a fish no matter how "ugly" I do not want them to suffer and I wanna get to know them, nature can be brutal and some animals like parasites we cant hug we even have to kill and all that but still aninmal are other sentient beings and fish are included so we should give them love and treat them as compassionately as we reasonably , so sometimes when people act like fish are gross or girls think fish are gross it annoys me because these other beings are phenomenologically conscious creatures that desperately need us to protect them from.......well us

Love and compassion for animals should never be gendered it should be a universal part of human dignity and societal harmony <3

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”

― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#445

"I think the whole idea of IDIC is a complete lie. Vulcans show time and time again that they don't actually approve of diversity in any of its forms, in different ways of thinking and being, different species, or different points of view. "Infinite diversity" doesn't include anyone who thinks, feels or is even just genetically different. Vulcans who have thoughts and actions that diverge from totally unemotional logic are punished for it. It's often stated or implied that they think humans and other species are inferior to Vulcans because they aren't logical enough and are too emotional. I just can't stand Vulcans in general. If Vulcans have 1000 haters etc."

[fanfictionroxs]

lmao apparently asking people to stop all oppression of a human-animal group is amazing, ethical, progressive; but asking people to stop all oppression of any other animal group is "bRaInDeAd". make it make sense 🙄🤡

[all-things-are-nothing-to-me]

"The history of anarcho-individualist veganism is practically unknown by the libertarian movement itself. In fact, when French anarchists began writing about environmentalism in the 1970's and veganism in the 1990's, no reference was made to their individualist predecessors of the first half of the 20th century...

...The first part of this article provides a synopsis of anarchism and its defense of the animal cause before looking at the naturian movement. The second part examines individualist anarchists' motives for adopting a plant-based diet, many of which, as we shall see, are just as topical as ever. The concluding remarks will highlight the fact that veganism allows us to better understand a vastly understudied strand of anarchism, namely individualism."

Read here.