Stop the hurt
The following statement was not written by me, I "borrowed" it from another page.... Andrea's Animal Liberation Sight..It says wat I mean better an I do....Meat sux, and so does pregudice...
You may sense that there's a real problem between humyns and other-than-humyn animals.
And it's a social justice issue, as real as racism, sexism, and homophobia. In fact, it's the same
problem. Oppressive power structures and the institutions and people that control them
disenfranchise and exploit vulnerable individuals. The exploited lose their inherent value; they
become of value only so far as they are useful to the dominant group. Their right to choice and
self-determination are ridiculed, dismissed, and subordinated to the wants and whims of the
dominators. So what are we talking about? We're talking about women, workers, people of
colour, gays, lesbians, children - and animals. Exploitation and disrespect use the same tools to
turn individuals into commodities: in the sex trade, child-labour, wage-labour, slavery and the
meat/dairy industry. A lot of us make up rules of dealing with the world and with others: we set
up arbitrary moral boundries. Some exclude women; some draw lines that exclude gays and
lesbians; some draw lines around anyone who's not familiar. Most of us draw lines between us
and animals. So their lives and needs, their loves and fears all become slabs of meat on the
table. Or a "medical" tool. Or a pair of shoes. Or a "pet". BUT IT'S ONLY CONVENTION THAT
TELLS US TO EAT AND USE ANIMALS. It's not reason, or need, or anything but outright greed.
We have to challenge these customs just as we challenge discrimination on the basis of gender,
race, age or sexual orientation. Because it's all the same bill of goods that the power elite want
us to accept. Put it this way: if you can make a case for eating a hamburger, you can make a
case to defend rape, gay-bashing, and white-supremacy. Arbitrary ethical boundries don't work
for the individuals on the other side. Social justice is about stopping brutality and extending
consideration to the inherent value of others. By not eating meat and dairy, and not wearing
animals for clothing, you acknoledge that animals are complex, thinking, feeling individuals
who are denied choices and fundamental freedoms just to feed the greed of human beings. And
you deny the system that tells you everything's value is in whether it can be bought or sold. You
can strike back even more deeply: by joining or forming an animal-liberation organization,
you're throwing the garbage that society calls "decency" and "respectable morals" right back in
its' fucking face. And even if some twisted chunks or tortured muscle still swing over a
slaughterhouse killing floor, your voice on the streets is a voice the animals didn't have before.
Because society doesn't listen to the voices of the oppressed-- unless someone stands up and
shouts back!
My other related pages....These WERE made souly by ME!!!
Homophobics SUCK...
Animal Rights....
Animal Testing...
Racists SUCK....
