Comments on: Ryan Gosling Urges McDonald’s To Save The Birds! http://www.ecorazzi.com/2010/03/12/ryan-gosling-urges-mcdonalds-to-save-the-birds/ Causes Entertainment Lifestyle Pop Culture Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chastity http://www.ecorazzi.com/2010/03/12/ryan-gosling-urges-mcdonalds-to-save-the-birds/comment-page-1/#comment-464530 Chastity Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:57:01 +0000 http://www.ecorazzi.com/?p=26851#comment-464530 herwin, have you read the article Invasion of the Movement Snatchers? If so, I invite you to read it. Nonhuman animals are commodities and the simplest way to solve this is by going vegan. Why? Because one is refraining from giving their money to industry. PETA negotiates by calling for a boycott and then later asking everyone to send letters fawning over the company/product under fire. If we want to see an end to nonhuman animal exploitation, doing a species-specific protest and other single issue campaigns don't help Asking people to go vegetarian doesn't help. Underestimating people's willingness to go vegan doesn't help. Carelessly throwing one's money away to a wealthy organization doesn't help. Going vegan does and encouraging by going vegan does. Even if McDonald's were to come out with a "cruelty free", plant-based burger, it wouldn't be vegan because it is offered by a company who routinely profits off nonhuman animal exploitation. People aren't properly educated on what veganism is. It's a principle that seeks no negotiation. People think you can be vegan solely for health reasons or environmental reasons. No. If it doesn't include reasons of the rejection of all forms of nonhuman exploitation, then it is not vegan. Writing to McDonald's in hopes of freeing the birds is naive at best. If we want to free the birds (and other nonhumans), we have to take our money away in hopes of bringing industry to bankruptcy. herwin, have you read the article Invasion of the Movement Snatchers? If so, I invite you to read it. Nonhuman animals are commodities and the simplest way to solve this is by going vegan. Why? Because one is refraining from giving their money to industry. PETA negotiates by calling for a boycott and then later asking everyone to send letters fawning over the company/product under fire. If we want to see an end to nonhuman animal exploitation, doing a species-specific protest and other single issue campaigns don’t help Asking people to go vegetarian doesn’t help. Underestimating people’s willingness to go vegan doesn’t help. Carelessly throwing one’s money away to a wealthy organization doesn’t help. Going vegan does and encouraging by going vegan does. Even if McDonald’s were to come out with a “cruelty free”, plant-based burger, it wouldn’t be vegan because it is offered by a company who routinely profits off nonhuman animal exploitation.

People aren’t properly educated on what veganism is. It’s a principle that seeks no negotiation. People think you can be vegan solely for health reasons or environmental reasons. No. If it doesn’t include reasons of the rejection of all forms of nonhuman exploitation, then it is not vegan. Writing to McDonald’s in hopes of freeing the birds is naive at best. If we want to free the birds (and other nonhumans), we have to take our money away in hopes of bringing industry to bankruptcy.

]]> By: herwin http://www.ecorazzi.com/2010/03/12/ryan-gosling-urges-mcdonalds-to-save-the-birds/comment-page-1/#comment-463003 herwin Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:06:38 +0000 http://www.ecorazzi.com/?p=26851#comment-463003 so you are an activist, eh. congratulations. actually they are not "negotiating", because "the industry" doesnt talk with Peta, they are just exposing animal cruelty by publicly demanding (and not negotiating) that companies should try to eliminate at least the worst abuse. you are quiet wrong about mr King, he was very openminded and open heart, never thinking or acting in terms like "we" and "the enemie", never shutting doors,if there would have been an oportunity to talk with the, er, the KKK, he would have taken it, positive person as he was. so you are an activist, eh. congratulations.

actually they are not “negotiating”, because “the industry” doesnt talk with Peta, they are just exposing animal cruelty by publicly demanding (and not negotiating) that companies should try to eliminate at least the worst abuse.

you are quiet wrong about mr King, he was very openminded and open heart, never thinking or acting in terms like “we” and “the enemie”, never shutting doors,if there would have been an oportunity to talk with the, er, the KKK, he would have taken it, positive person as he was.

]]> By: Chastity http://www.ecorazzi.com/2010/03/12/ryan-gosling-urges-mcdonalds-to-save-the-birds/comment-page-1/#comment-461332 Chastity Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:52:49 +0000 http://www.ecorazzi.com/?p=26851#comment-461332 I wonder why animal rights activists (I'm one myself) want to negotiate with industry. Why is this only present in the animal rights movement? Gloria Steinem would never negotiate with Hustler Magazine. Martin Luther King Jr. would never be in talks with the KKK. Why are activists trying to get in bed with an exploiter? I wonder why animal rights activists (I’m one myself) want to negotiate with industry. Why is this only present in the animal rights movement? Gloria Steinem would never negotiate with Hustler Magazine. Martin Luther King Jr. would never be in talks with the KKK. Why are activists trying to get in bed with an exploiter?

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