The revolving door between industry and government is common to both Republican and Democratic administrations. Bankers are appointed to Treasury, Big Oil lobbyists go to Energy and Transportation, Big Ag alums and executives get appointed to Interior and Agriculture, Big Pharma controls the FDA and the National Institutes of Health, the military industrial complex gets…
Rape, slavery, infanticide. Such is the dairy industry, If any human beings on Earth should identify with the suffering of cows and their babies, it should be those who advocate against the rape and enslavement of women, and the murder of their children. However, there is a deafening silence from feminists and women’s advocates about…
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The animal movement has never had the possibility of accomplishing so much as it has with prospect of a Trump presidency. Most animal activists who criticize Trump point to Trump’s serial killer sons who hunt big game and post horrific pics of themselves with poor creatures they have murdered for fun. And while Trump himself…
As a civil libertarian, a progressive, and a feminist, I have always believed that the woman has the right to decide who gets to go into her vagina and who gets to come out of it. The idea of vagina police and government intrusion into the doctor-patient relationship is abhorrent. That most opponents of women…
In a nutshell, there are three schools of thought among animal activists: The Animal Protectionist View: Animals are going to be enslaved, brutalized and murdered into the foreseeable future. We owe than them all we can do to alleviate as much suffering as we can. This view encompasses the overwhelming majority of the animal movement.…
Do you support Animal Rights? Animal protection? Are you an environmentalist? Do you advocate for human rights? For social and economic justice? For animal liberation? For freedom of conscience? If so, you belong here. This blog is dedicated to social justice and animal liberation, to freedom of thought and universal rights. It is the only…
There is all the difference in the world between politics and advocacy. Those of us who are trying to improve the lives of animals do not have the luxury of selecting candidates with whom we agree on most issues. We must prioritize what can and cannot be accomplished politically. Animal lives hang in the balance…
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals kills animals. Tens of thousands of them. By their own admissions. PETA is not an animal rights organization, nor are they an animal protection organization. PETA is an anti-animal suffering organization. Ingrid Newkirk, who runs the operation, believes that eliminating the possibility of animal suffering is more important…
Veganism has nothing to do with animal rights. Animal rights is a goal wherein government(s) recognize that animal are entitled to life, and freedom from cruelty, exploitation, and human ownership. Animal rights is a legal concept. Veganism is not recognizing animal rights any more than not practicing cannibalism is recognizing human rights. Veganism is animal…
Armory of the Revolution 