Posted by: Jessen on: August 24, 2009
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/08/19/customers-boycott-whole-foods-time-to-buy-the-stock/?icid=sphere_wpcom_inline
People apparently boycotting Whole Foods because the CEO said people don’t have an intrinsic right to health care.
So they are using a free market tactic to oppose free market views.
This guy also donates $1 million a year to animal welfare… something most left-leaning people consider important… amongst other chairities. That doesn’t matter, because if he [...]
Posted by: Jessen on: August 22, 2009
I try not to sound as angry as I feel when I discuss human rights/animal welfare. Nothing makes people reject your point of view like anger, even if you’re right. Look at people like Bill Hicks, who spend their lives yelling at people to think, which only serves to make the people reject truth even [...]
Posted by: Jessen on: August 21, 2009
“You need meat to live”
False, vegans live longer, 50% reduction in cancer, etc..
“You won’t get enough vitamins”
Where you do think the meat gets it?
“Animals are different in x number of ways”
difference doesn’t justify cruelty, we are all equal in suffering. We realise that, which is why 99.9% of us can’t stomach killing an animal ourselves.
“You [...]
Posted by: Jessen on: August 20, 2009
http://vegansagainstpeta.blogspot.com/
Fantastic blog. I’m not even going to go into how much I despise PETA, it would involve too many curse words.
Posted by: Jessen on: August 10, 2009
Principles are the physics of our moral universe. Without them, we live in chaos.
The principles we apply to animals are heavily inconsistant.
For one, it is illegal to kill or harm a farm animal anywhere but farmland. That is, if you beat a sheep on a farm, it’s okay, but if you beat it 3 feet [...]
Posted by: Jessen on: May 30, 2009
It is commonly thought that if you are vegan or vegetarian, you do not value human life or you value animals above humans. This may be true for some, but not for me. I am vegetarian because I value human life.
Animals aren’t the only ones who suffer horrendous conditions inside factory farms and slaughterhouses, the [...]
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