Additionally, the screams from the agonizing cow who provided that cheap, subsidized burger aren’t fully represented in this sex-driven message which says “speciesist murder is sexy & healthy” (maybe healthy for Carl’s Junior’s profits).

The reality of meat is that the world is being deforested, and many species going extinct, to provide the least healthful meals for the growing human population. Most obviously culpable are over-consumptive, parasitically privileged cultures of the “first world”, typified with direct exploitation of the people and environment of the “third world”. Consider that a cow has been brutally slaughtered for it. How is that appetizing, it’s heinously cruel. Their pain comes back around, it won’t be forgotten!
The corporate media channels exist to program us into drone consumers and generate more profits for fat cats who guiltily lounge in the exorbitant spoils of selfish oppression at other animals’ and other human beings’ expense. Please understand that “meat means animal abuse”.
Going vegan is as easy as eating salad and being concerned for the wellness of each sentient being. Don’t sleepwalk through your lifetime, wake up and smell the roses! Ethically, there are no excuses for continuing the devastation of our environment and innate suffering involved in exploiting animals for “food” or any other purpose to us. See veganthis.org or nutritionmd.org or rawveg.info

“we must draw attention to these issues but calling people “nazis” or “hypocrites” isnt “drawing attention”, its merely ventilating ones anger and frustration in a slight histerical way”

Well, if you say I’m being extremist by comparing what the nazis did to millions of people with what we do to animals, then that’s because you think humans are superior to animals. That’s why it shocks you! Therefore you believe we shouldn’t compare animals with humans… Why? How different is that from people who believe that the purpose of animals is to serve all our needs!? They wouldn’t even think about doing to humans what they do to animals would they? Of course not, because they see them as ‘equals’. See where I’m getting at? That’s the point I wanted to make. Humans do all these horrible things to animals because they see them as an inferior species. That’s what the nazis thought of Jewish people, gay people, gypsies and people with disabilities… that they were inferior!

Do you understand now?

And do you want to know what’s really extremist?
I’ll tell you…
I volunteer at my local shelter, doing a little bit of everything.
I went there yesterday and do you know what the person responsible for the shelter showed me?
They have surveillance cameras 24/7 and last Thursday they captured a man arriving in his car… it was 7:30 a.m., no one was there; he parked the car near the entrance door, got out of the car, didn’t ring the bell (because as the coward he is, he knew no one was there and thus could get away with what he was about to do), opened the trunk of his car and grabbing 5 or 6 dogs, one by one as if they were bags of trash, pulled them out and threw them to the floor…!
Then he drove off running over one of the dogs!!! The people who work at the shelter found all of the animals except the one WHO was run over – (S)HE probably died in agony in the woods (the shelter is on the outskirts of the city, near the woods).

It’s all very nice and cosy to write on our computer keyboard (away from the ‘reality’) saying we shouldn’t point fingers or call people hypocrites, but when we’re in the field and see things like the one I mentioned above (which are terrifyingly common), it’s hard not to get emotional, angry and ‘extremist’!!! So please don’t come here and lecture me okay!?

Going back to the coward ‘who’ did this, the problem is that the law in my country (as in many others) regards animals as, literally, ‘things’. As far as the law is concerned, that man didn’t commit any crime! A person is only guilty of such a crime if (s)he hurts or kills an animal who has an owner. In that case it’s considered as an attempt to damage private property. Animals are considered their owner’s property! I don’t really know if these are the technical terms but you get the point, right?

Now you tell me, how can’t I compare this with what the nazis did to so many people?
It shocks you? GREAT!!!

What shocks me is hypocrites who don’t admit who they really are!!

How does someone who claims to be a vegetarian and wears leather, or someone who promotes a campaign for animal rights and afterwards promotes a burger company, help AR activism?
Then we have people who say things like: “Well I barely eat meat, therefore I’m practically a vegetarian”… or something similar!

“Can’t we just support every little thing people do towards helping animals/the environment, instead of shunning them for not doing enough?”

“It’s much easier to convince people to decrease behaviors than eliminate them, which is why it’s sooo important to be supportive of anything people are doing in the right direction, instead of calling them hypocrites for not doing enough.”

I agree that doing a little bit is better than doing nothing. And I have nothing against individuals that choose to start changing their habits even if they’re only taking baby steps..

However, we’re talking about celebrities. They are role models who people look up to, so don’t expect me to pat them on the back and say they’re great just because they promote one lifestyle (which is not even their own) or if they say they’re vegetarian and then wear leather, and so on…!

I believe everyone here has already seen ‘Earthlings’, but in case you haven’t, please (pretty please!!) watch it and then you’ll understand my comparison:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9FD18926170ED901&search_query=earthlings

Watch all 10 parts. I promise you won’t regret it and maybe (just maybe) you’ll learn something and change your opinion regarding your ‘beloved’ humans!

ANGRY, EMOTIONAL, FRUSTRATED, BITTER, HYSTERICAL AND F****** PROUD ACTIVIST!!!!

Sorry for the extension of my comment…

I’m off, I’m beat… It has been one LONG weekend!!!

However, if we praise all the time and never draw attention to the moral schizophrenia that often occurs in people who claim to love animals and be against cruelty but buy leather, eat “free-range,” animals, etc., then an opportunity is missed to educate and change.

I mean.. The Carrie/leather thing… good for her that she’s veg! That’s one more good deed for the animals. The leather thing sucks, but would you rather she eat meat to avoid being a hypocrite? Yes, ideally, she’d do neither, but let’s applaud the fact that she’s doing anything at all, which is more than most.

AR activists get bad reps because of these kind of extremist mentalities (ex: Nazi comparison)… we have to keep in mind that 2 people who cut down on 1/2 their meat consumption are equal to a vegetarian. It’s much easier to convince people to decrease behaviors than eliminate them, which is why it’s sooo important to be supportive of anything people are doing in the right direction, instead of calling them hypocrites for not doing enough.

Extremist attitudes turn people off AR/environmentalism. Everyone taking baby steps together is better than a few leaping.

For the nonhumans animals in labs and in factory farms, humans are Nazis.

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