#Animal rights and welfare activist

[angelcatsstuff]

Happy over 4 years now that you transitioned into the afterlife My One And Only Angel Cat Grazee!

Missing you still, but know that you are always with me and Mit Mit Cat!

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[daisylovesrumble]

Urge These Resorts to Stop Offering Cruel Dolphin Experiences! | PETA

Hawks Cay Resort in Florida and The Kahala Hotel & Resort and Hilton Waikoloa Village in Hawaii are supporting the abuse of intelligent dolphins by partnering with notorious Dolphin Quest or Dolphin Connection. These companies cruelly confine dolphins to tiny lagoons so they can offer tourists “swim with dolphins” experiences for profit.

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[weaselbeaselpants]

K absolutely none of this is connected to her shows and her worker drama it's unrelated; but I'm not gonna lie Viv's Japan vacation where she's showing herself with a bunch of animal cafes is really starting to piss me off.

The deer being fed I think are wild, I don't have anything to say about that. But the owl cafes, the otter cafe, the marine park.

Look here! I'm not anti-captivity, honest (though AZA is hard to trust when they legit have an approval rating on Seaworld), but I really am skeeved out by so-called zoos and attractions that let you pet the animals, kind of especially if they aren't domesticated animals but exotics. Though, tbh even dog/cat pet shelters or whatever sound pretty hectic to eat at. Also, feels a little unsanitary. But even if that weren't a problem I just...kind of don't like anything where the animals are literally tied down and can't escape from you. It's the same reason I and a lot of other people don't like those pony-rides at fairs. The whole time you're worried about the animal's safety and happiness and also you aren't having any real connection to them.

Watching animals in an enclosure that's nice where they're just doing their thing >>> having to pet the animal. Not that I'm immune to propaganda and wouldn't absolutely volunteer to clean up scat if it meant I could hold a weasel being rehabilitated to the wild for a hot minute. I would 100% do that (it'd bite. Don't care). But there's that and then there's me getting to bond with a weasel that's shock collared or chained somehow and can't escape from me. That doesn't sit right.

And no. I don't care if it's in another country it's still wrong by a lot of global standards. In fact, I think it's kind of weird that people are doing the "respect other cultures"-thing only when it comes to Instagramable stories.

Ya'll have to realize it's not just yuppie American vegangelicals complaining. There are animal rights orgs in Thailand fighting elephant tourism, there ARE animal rights orgs in Japan and they do not like the animal cafes. Animal rights/welfare aren't some kind of 'annoying' American pastime. Why do you think Milo and Otis was controversial? Why do you think Padak exists? Respecting other cultures and their practices means: letting indigenous people hunt the animals they've been hunting for thousands of years, which of course isn't always going to be pretty cause that's what traditional hunting IS; it's allowing ritual animal slaughter in spaces and religions where that's done to feed the community and not as torture or sacrifice. And personally, as a mostly vegetarian, I say right on to both of those things.

Zoos, farms, petting zoos, aquariums and sanctuaries are YMMV, but I vouch for them in theory and usually in practice. Animal cafes and marine parks? I'm sorry but I can't not see those as being tourism and exploitive at best. Especially marine parks.

Viv straight up did a pic based on Blackfish but I guess that doesn't matter in Japan. I'm really disappointed in her as someone who loves animals. Because hey- when you as a human-animal love the other creatures of this earth, of course things like our rights come first. Humans are just that kind of animal and I don't think there's anything wrong with taxidermy or vulture culture. But, especially as an adult, you should know how to take care of animals and it should be your responsibility as their caretaker to give them the best care you have.

There's a petshop near where I (no longer in a few weeks) work. It used to hate that place cause I saw a rat eating another rat's baby alive among other abuses and the owner straight up didn't give a shit, not about the rat or that he was putting smaller reptiles in cages with monitor lizards. You can guess how that ended.

That place has new owners now. It mostly has animals there in transition. While they still have feeders (I know, that's prolly controversial to the reptile parents reading), their conditions have really improved. No crowding the rats, even the feeders, in unsafe unventilated places. They get REALLY mad if you tap the glass on the cages. No more keeping lovebirds apart from birds so that they're always calling. Betafish males get actual decorated tanks to themselves instead of those depressing bowls! If petstores and units where you pick up your expensive reptiles, fish and birds from HAVE to exist, I'd rather they be places like this. Places where the staff are trying and really do seem to love and want the best for their animals while expecting nothing fancy from the animals in return.

I'd love to be proven wrong on this- I remember seeing a yt vid for a bed and breakfast where you ate outside with the cows that made the dairy you're eating, and them being cows they of course wanted to come up and say hi to the guests. Of course I'd love that '' magical '' experience with an animal while I'm enjoying my coffee. But I just can't trust cafes and exotic petting zoos like this. My family has veterinarians, farmers, vegans and vegetarians, and FFA graduates in it. I'm just really concerned about the little things like this.

I know in my heart that of course Viv doesn't want to hurt any animals- but it bothers me.

Thoughts @chaifootsteps @derangedhyena-delphinidae?

#animal rights #animal welfare #conservation #animal rights activist #vivziepop critical

[gone2soon-rip]

PAUL O’GRADY (1955-Died March 28th 2023,at 67). English comedian, broadcaster, actor, writer, and drag queen. He achieved notability in the London gay scene during the 1980s with his drag queen persona Lily Savage, through which he gained broader popularity in the 1990s,hosting the game show,Blankety Blank,in his Lily Savage persona.Paul was also a keen activist in LGBT rights throughout his career.. O'Grady subsequently dropped the character and in the 2000s became the presenter of various television and radio shows, including the dating show,Blind Date,and also The Paul O'Grady Show, and Paul O’Grady Live. Paul was a passionate dog lover and campaigned rigorously on behalf of pet charities such as Battersea Cats & Dogs Homes,for which he was a keen ambassador. H ealso presented shows on his love of dogs,such as Paul O’Grady:For the Love of Dogs.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Grady

#Paul O'Grady #English Comedians #English Television Presenters #English Gay Rights Activists #English Animal Welfare Activists #English Drag Queens #Lily Savage #Comedians #comedy legends #Television Presenters #LGBT Righst Activists #Animal Welfare Activists #Notable Deaths in March 2023 #Notable Deaths in 2023

[darkwood-sleddog]

proselytizing about your "anti-carnism" and animal rights activist views is not a trauma response lmao.

#dogblr #animal welfare not animal rights #sorry but even if you're politely expressing what is frankly bullshit in my notes #i have the right to make fun of you #did you know people can and do see horrific things in the animal world without becoming animal rights activists #anyways please get out of my notes #i gotta wonder what these anti-carnism people would think of the inuit diet lol #it takes five seconds for these people to make their own posts btw instead of infecting my notes #but again they're here to spread their message so...

[thueenz]

wait I thought the dodo posted animal welfare/rescue content? What is shady about that corporation/brand? :0

hi i just woke up hopefully i can word my thoughts! so sorry if none of this makes sense ahshshg im not like a professional in these spaces just someone very into animal welfare so bear with me here. this is all from memory as well because i refuse to watch a bunch of dodo videos but i doubt they have changed at all judging by my quick skimming of their account lol

basically it...is and it isnt. Not all the dodos content is bad on technicality. but the people behind it clearly dont actually care about accurate information or animal welfare at all, or at least not in a way that actually helps animals.

concerning point one: improper keeping of wild animals. theres many videos on the dodo of wild animals being kept as household pets, where they most certainly are not thriving lmao. Most of their content is dogs atp at least but theres still a hefty amount of wild animals. foxes, deer, raccoons, opossum, and monkeys i just saw from a quick scroll. not the monkeys good lord the poor things. the dodo promotes and shares this content, these wild animals playing with domestic ones (unsafe), the keeping of monkeys is especially bad they cannot mentally thrive in a home environment and should not be cuddling dogs 😭 all these animals are going to suffer. they are not domesticated, they are not fit to live by humans and get their needs met outside of a zoo where they have an entire enclosure and team of people looking after them. opossums are also if i remember incredibly tricky to keep healthy in captivity and almost always become dangerously overweight in the hands of pet owners, if not always.

ive seen the dodo post 'heartwarming' videos of baby animal rescue by the layperson and how 'cute' it is that the animal got attached and now has to live as a pet. its not cute. its not heartwarming. what you did was fail to rescue the animal. take it to a professional so it can be released properly. if the animal gets habituated to humans, then you failed. it is a failure of a rescue, not cute. organizations try their best to PREVENT that usually.

concerning point 2: promoting dangerous animal pairs. small prey animals and cats are the most common. cat saliva is dangerously toxic to small rodents, lizards, and birds. they should never be put together. every time i see a video of a cat 'playing' with a little hamster or something i die a bit its so stressful. these animals are often stressed by the cats as well. cats have prey drive, instinct. they are going to kill your hamster girl. they just are.

concerning point 3: rampant anthropomorphism. im not sure if people understand what i mean by that so let me try and explain. anthropomorphism is the name for the human tendency to apply human thoughts, emotions, and morals, to inhuman objects and creatures. its what we do. we view things from the only lens we know. however, to do this to animals so freely without a second thought is horrifically damaging. animals are not people. the dodo promotes false images of what animals are feeling and thinking, and applies human concepts of what 'freedom' and 'respect' is to them if that makes sense. its the basic thing all animal rights activists do- which, animal rights activists advocate for animals to have the same rights as humans. the term gets watered down and accepted but most of them genuinely want this, something incredibly damaging for these animals.

anthropomorphism leads to abuse. each animal is different and needs different needs for its own health, not what a human thinks it would want in the animals place. a common point is to say "what if that was you" to a farm animal. its not me. because i am not a cow. a cow has no concept of caring about freedom. it cares that its well fed and healthy. or insisting animals are feeling guilty for something, or insisting they dont have instinct or prey drive and 'would never' because they 'know hes family', or other human views of what animals are feeling instead of understanding what is really going on, which, surprise, damages the animal greatly. they need to be cared for as an animal, not a human.

concerning point 4: a common talking point among animal rights activists, as you can guess, is veganism and completely stopping animal agriculture. this is obviously not good. i wont get into veganism right now unless someone wants me to(but living in a house with a family of animal rights activists vegans, i know first hand unfortunately.) i dont remember what videos exactly but i know the dodo has spread these points in the past, maybe not outright, but with falsified information about farms and livestock. animal farming is not evil. if i have to see one more video of "omg the mother cow is crying for her baby 😭think before you buy meat.." and its a cow crying to be bred bc shes in heat i will explode LMFAO. and then they bring in a calf to reunite with her thats clearly an entirely different breed they just bought for the video to make people sad. not talking about a dodo video there just a general genre of video but i wouldnt be surprised if the dodo posted one of those too 💀.that space is rich with dangerous misinfo about animal welfare and animals themselves, prioritizing human feelings over what the animals actually need. anyway the dodo tends to post content from that point of view

im sure the dodo fakes a lot of the content. in general like. livestock arent just laying near dead on the road from farm trucks after falling out. and other stuff but i dont remember specifics but its a pretty common thing in the animal rights activist scene. believe it or not farmers want their animals alive and healthy for good product if nothing else. mass factory farming and neglect is a product of capitalism not a product of "inherently unethical farming"

if anyone thinks "well, the dodo might not know all this" then they should not be running a widely viral brand about animals. full stop. they dont care. if they did they wouldve long since changed. they care about what makes people feel good, not what is good for the animals. there is no excuse to not know at least this basic information if you are running an account like that. i see a lot of abuse online from people who dont know better because the average person knows next to nothing about animal welfare beyond how to keep a dog alive. and i wish desperately there was more education on this stuff but it is what it is. i will never blame someone for not knowing something as long as they are willing to learn. the disconnect from animals and understanding them in this world is a huge problem, especially the disconnect of where you get your food. but they do not get that excuse.

tl;dr dodo promotes neglectful and dangerous keeping of animals, and false information about them.

#i hope this makes senseeeeee #if anyone knows more about something and i was wrong on smth or has smth to add lmk #like i said not an expert so i was a bit vague lol #i may be underestimating my knowledge level tho idk whats considered a lot #if u have any questions lmk <33 im happy to talk about this stuff and try and spread better welfare knowledge #oh on that topic if youve only seen the term animal rights activist #'animal welfarist' if i remember is if someone actually gaf about the animal #the terms get used interchangeably at this point by like media which is awful bc they are VERY VERY DIFFERENT #i hope i remember the name right tho if i didnt lmk 💀💀 #pers #originally turned off rbs but then edited to turn them on bc why not if someone wants to share dodo slander

[gayleafpool]

do animal rights activists know that in the wild animals get hunted and killed for food by other animals like do they know that’s literally just how life works

#no probably not bc just by being animals rights activists they have a fundamental misunderstanding of animals #please take an animal welfare class

[robert-the-greyhound]

Making Friends and Influencing People, The Greyhound Tour.

After the initial outrage and push for protests and marches had died off, myself and the humans of Greyhound Awareness Cork changed tactics. We no longer needed to stand in one spot every weekend trying to get people to stop so we could pass on some facts about Racing to try and change their minds, they already knew the facts and wanted to know how to help. So we changed the game plan. It was time to mobilize.

After spending time in Mollys presence for the last few Months, Robert was ready to face the world in such a capacity. He no longer baulked at passing traffic or shyed away from outstretched hands. With Miss Moly by his side, he was bomb proof! And so, we packed the two hounds up and started touring Cork and beyond!

We hit Bantry farmers market, setting up shop right in the middle of the plaza, with placards and posters in a perfect circle, covering all sides. Bantry featured in the RTE documentary in a negative light, playing host to the Ferry that brought hounds over to Whiddy island for Open Coursing. Unlike Coursing organized by Coursing Clubs, Open Coursing features the terrorizing of Hares in their natural habitat, and rarely features a Vet or Regulatory Officer to ensure proper treatment of Hound and Hare.

Somewhat unsurprisingly, the community in Bantry were disgusted with the portrayal of their hometown in such a poor light, and many a passerby stopped to chat and pet the Hounds, adding their voice of support and wishing for change. There were a few locals too who scoffed and walked by, or yelled at us across the street, the usual cat-calls and jeers of "get a job" or "wasters". Those who did yell were looked upon by neighbors with a disapproving eye.

We often say that a single mind changed by these Awareness Events is a marked success, and I don't think I've ever seen it in such effect as the Awareness Event in Bantry. Halfway through the event, a young boy, no more than 11 or 12, wandered over. He asked to pet the hounds and was delighted of course by Robert and Molly and their gentle kisses and head bops. He told us his cousins raced Greyhounds and that he'd been to the track a few times, including for his communion but he'd never actually been able to pet them before. He then asked what was so wrong with Greyhound Racing. When dealing with children at these events, or online, caution is obviously needed. So we simplified it down to a more child-friendly form, explaining how the Greyhounds often didn't have a good life when racing, and could suffer injuries or be treated badly if they didn't win. The child nodded and wandered off, only to return half an hour later with a gang of similar aged boys with him.

They all gathered around the dogs, petting and stroking them. We didn't interact much with them as a group, but I did listen to their conversation. Without our prompting they were discussing the dogs and Greyhound Racing. They were talking about the dog they had seen "doing cartwheels" on the track, and one boy queried what happened to him after he was carried off. You could see the cogs turning in their heads as they put two and two together. They left after taking in their fill of greyhound cuddles, and I count that as the notable success of the Bantry awareness event.

As a group, Greyhound Awareness Cork was invited to Limerick by a group of individuals who wanted to expand and establish a similar group in Limerick. They had been in touch over social media and email, but struggled with the concept of an awareness event, how to go about setting it up and how to be both approachable and informative. In writing, an Awareness event seems pretty straight forward- pick a public spot, bring a couple of Greyhounds, and get chatting to the passers-bys, but in practice, there are often moving parts that can make or break an event.

So we whisked Molly and Robert up to Limerick, where they did what they do best- make friends and influence people. Dozens and dozens of people stopped in their shopping to pet them and have a chat. It was a prime example of a successful event.

We continued with trackside protests, back in our traditional peaceful and silent format. Instead of focusing on our local Curaheen Track, we started to venture out to Youghal track. Youghal Track at the time was running a promotion of free entry to the track to try and boost attendance. Even prior to the RTE documentary, Youghal track had been in complete decline. A combination of an old, dilapidated structure, older clientele and more attractive family-orientated activities located nearby had started to push Youghal closer to the edge of shutting down. It almost did, after receiving a fire hazard report, but due to local council action, managed to stay afloat.

The protests outside Youghal Greyhound Track almost felt redundant. There were more people standing outside protesting than actually attending the meets, even with the free entry grab. Youghal track moved away from public meets in the months following, converting almost entirely to SIS racing, which is streamed across the world. Many tracks have gone this route in recent years in desperate bids to stay open.

As well as the tours of Cork and beyond, we continued with our Cork City events. We started a petition for the public to sign, urging local councils to call for the phased ban of Greyhound Racing and Coursing. We continued to allow the hounds to advocate for themselves, showing off just how great they are as beloved members of the family and not just as 'race dogs'. We strolled along markets, visited dog friendly establishments and exhibits, attending community events and overall kept our presence strong in the community.

As the dust settled from the RTE documentary, it became clear that many, many people had turned their backs on the "sport". Sponsors had pulled out en-masse, leaving Greyhound Racing high and dry when it came to prize money and race meets. Pressure was on from the public eye to step up and do more for the dogs at the heart of the industry, dogs that had previously been tossed aside as wastage.

The pressure from the public led to governmentally mandated change within the industry. An increase in the implementation of the traceability system, more comprehensive testing of race dogs for performance altering substances, pressure on trainers to at least try and home the dogs who were deemed surplus to requirements, etc. On top of the pressure to rehome instead of dispose came an increase in people offering Greyhounds a space on their couch, catalyzed in part by those Greyhounds and Rescues who had been promoting Greyhounds as the Greyt pets they truly are for years before hand. This led to a notable increase in the Rescue Hound Population here in Cork....

TW: #Animal Abuse, #Animal Death, #Animal Neglect, #Dog Death, #Dog Abuse, #Dog Injury, #Drugs, #Doping, #Protest.

#Greyhounds #Greyhound #Greyhounds make great pets #pets not bets #rescue #rescue dog #rescue greyhound #rescued greyhound #rescuednotretired #couches not cages #winning hearts not races #ban greyhound racing #end greyhound racing #greyhound welfare #animal rights #animal rights activist #ireland #irish greyhound #this runs deep

[thatpunnyperson]

Watch Dominion(2018)

You mean the documentary by that guy that doxed a ton of people in Australia? The guy who then got mad when his politician mom got put on what Americans would call "administrative leave" while the government investigated whether she was involved in the doxing of a ton of Australian people? Because he thought it was unfair to involve his family? That guy? That documentary?

#hard pass #animal rights activists actively hinder animal welfare progress

[angelcatsstuff]

Happy 3 years Grazee May 3rd 2022 since you transitioned! So far this link reached 76 people or more!

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[daisylovesrumble]

Declawing is cruel mutilation. It leaves a cat unable to defend itself and declawed cats often become biters. Don't do it no matter what. There are kinder options.

#cat #cats #animalrights #animal welfare #animal rights activist #activist #activism #declawing #declawingiscruel

[aditimaheshwari19]

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[pers-books]

Liz Truss’s bid to ban trans women from sports runs out of time after MPs discuss ferrets instead

Left: former PM Liz Truss. Right: two domesticated ferrets (names unknown) Getty/Wikimedia Commons

Former UK prime minister Liz Truss’s recent attempt to ban transgender women from female spaces ran out of time and will now not be debated after MPs joined forces to “talk it out” for five hours, including discussing ferret name choices.

Truss, the UK’s shortest-serving prime minister, sponsored the bill – entitled the Health and Equality Acts (Amendment) Bill – saying it would define sex in law as biological and, in her view, end the “absurd and dangerous situation where biological males self-defining as females can access girls’ and women’s toilets and so on – as well as sports competitions”. 

In recent months, Liz Truss has become increasingly vocal over trans issues and has aligned herself with hard-right groups and figures, even appearing at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the US state of Maryland last month, where she claimed that “trans activists” had infiltrated the UK’s civil service.

One of Liz Truss’s allies, Secretary of State for Trade Kemi Badenoch, slammed the “filibuster”, saying that Labour MPs had used parliamentary time to discuss ferret name choices instead of “protecting children.”

Champion said: “I am interested that my right hon. Friend is keenly mentioning ferrets at every opportunity that she can get in this debate, so let me just put it on record that my brother had a ferret called Oscar.” Eagle replied: “My hon. Friend now has that on the record. I do not really know what else to say about that, except that I am sure that Oscar brought her brother great joy.”

Conservative MP for North Devon Selaine Saxby also joined in the Animal Welfare debate after she was asked by Ms Eagle whether she had ever owned a ferret, “and if so, what was that ferret’s name?”

Saxby replied: “That is an excellent intervention. I will come to ferrets, but unfortunately I have not had the pleasure of one at home myself.”

At one point, the Animal Welfare debate segued into a discussion of the soap opera Coronation Street, with Labour MP for Chester Samantha Dixon saying: “Is my hon. Friend aware of a recent Coronation Street storyline on precisely this issue? It involved the indomitable Evelyn, who is, of course, played by Maureen Lipman, and covered the issues around puppy farming. It was a strong, educational storyline.”

A bill aimed at ban conversion therapy failed to move through Parliament on Friday 1 March for the same reasons, after a debate on it ran out of time: with anti-conversion therapy ban MPs, including gender-critical Labour MP Rosie Duffield and several Conservative MPs, similarly accused of ‘filibustering’.

Were it not too early in the morning for it, I'd be HOWLING with laughter at this!

Here's a suggestion - instead of hounding trans people, do something about the number of children being groomed online!

#Trans Rights are Human Rights #Fuck Liz Truss #UK Politics

[blackbackedjackal]

asking in genuine good-faith; why do so many people not take issue with fur farms? most of the reasoning i see from people who are pro-fur farms is that real fur is more environmentally friendly than faux fur, which is true. however, it is also difficult for me to understand how keeping animals like foxes in a fur farm environment provides any real quality of life for them. i also feel that comparing things such as injuries occurring from overcrowding foxes or them being culled by farmers to death/injury from natural causes from life in the wild isn’t logically sound, as those are two completely different situations. i don’t understand how people who are against foxes being kept as pets or used as props out of concern for their welfare, can then be alright with them being kept in fur farms. i would really appreciate hearing your perspective.

I'll go ahead and say this but I'm sure you're aware @/is-the-fox-video-cute has plenty of resources backed with sources to explain why fur farming is not an inherently bad practice. Because of that I'm just going to talk about my opinions on the subject.

I share properly researched information about fur farming is because PETA and other Animal Rights Activist groups are full of shit. They are constantly spreading misinformation about animals in general, but their anti-fur propaganda has been so successful it's nearly impossible in the US to find actual scientific or first-hand sources talking about fur farming. ARA propaganda about fur farming has done more harm than good for both the industry and the animals. This includes ARAs staging footage of animals being abused and killed. They will literally do anything to spread their propaganda.

I'm not a fan of commercialized animal agriculture in general, but it's more of an issue of wanting better standardized welfare regulations for the animals and employees then the actual practice of raising animals for food and other resources. In places where proper welfare standards are met, the foxes are very well cared from start to finish. They have to be because the quality of the fur is directly dependent on the health and wellbeing of the foxes. But the constant push from ARA groups and anti-fur lobbying hinders progress. It makes it difficult to improve the industry when half the time you're having to fight just to be able to run the farms in the first place. I want to see the welfare standards improve more and more over time (and they defiantly have), but ARA groups are actively preventing that from happening on a larger scale.

Fur is much more environmentally friendly than faux fur, but fur farming also keep pressures off the demand of fur from wild populations. There are wild red fox subspecies and other furbearers who's populations are threatened due to overhunting and commercial trapping of the animals. Again, in farms where proper welfare standards are met, animals are regularly checked by the farmers/staff and given regular veterinary care. An injured fox in a fur farm is far more likely to be treated than a fox that was injured in the wild.

Most pet foxes descended from fur farms and even now Save A Fox purchases her (very poorly bred) foxes directly from fur farms. So what I don't understand is how people are ok with having animals from fur farms as pets, yet choose to spread lies about the fur farming industry and lie about their sources. Like you wanted a pet fox so badly you bought multiple ones from an unethical fur farm??? Gross. Again, if the industry had better overall welfare standards, it would help improve the lives of these animals. Theoretically, that would make it more ethical for people to own pet foxes, but as things currently stand it's only promoting bad business practices and directly financing bad fur farms. The reality is that fur farms that follow proper welfare standards take better care of their foxes than most private owners, and yes that includes SAF.

I'm not trying to convince people to be 100% ok with the practice without thinking critically about the issues it does still have in it's current state. I just want to lobby for better welfare standards in the fur industry. I want to see the industry improve because that improves the lives of the animals involved and could help with setting better welfare standards in other parts of animal agriculture. Spreading misinformation isn't going to help in the slightest, especially when people are out here actively harming the animals to do so.

#ask

[magnetothemagnificent]

What do you think abt Holocaust analogies in animal rights? Because I have to read Elizabeth Costello for class and I just know that my professor is going to talk about this tacky fucking "the meat industry is the same as/worse than the Holocaust" analogy in the most insensitive way possible.

It's absolutely disgusting. Animals aren't people. I'm vegetarian. I belief in animal welfare. I hate factory farms and mass-produced meat. I will never compare it to the Holocaust.

ARAs (Animal Rights Activists) and PETA are some of the most racist and antisemitic "activists" I've seen.

Animal Welfare means advocating for humane conditions for animals, whether or not they'll ultimately become food, and recognizing the relationship we have with the natural world, including consuming parts of it respectfully.

"Animal Rights" means comparing animals to people and people to animals and hurting both people and animals in the process, as well as not recognizing the unique needs different animals need and instead applying human diets and morality onto them. (Cats can't be vegan healthfully. Dogs shouldn't be vegan either. Don't listen to anyone who tries to convince you otherwise. Cats are obligate carnivores, dogs are opportunistic/flexible carnivores. )

Animal Welfare > Animal "Rights"

Animals aren't people. People aren't animals.

No matter how horrific factory farming can be, it'll never be on the level of the Holocaust or any other genocide.

#ARAs #antisemitism #racism #Holocaust mention #animal welfare #animal death

[vegance]

The light of a headlamp slices through the dark, illuminating hundreds of sows, side by side in crates. In the pitch black, they shriek and squirm in clanking metal cages.

In March 2017, five activists entered Circle Four Farms, an industrial pig farm in Utah owned by Smithfield Foods, one of the largest pork producers in the world.

They faced the camera. They used their real names. And they posted their footage online.

They also took with them two piglets.

The animals—later named Lily and Lizzie—were sick and underweight, according to activist Wayne Hsiung. However, prosecutors argued it was stealing. The FBI raided two farm animal shelters in Utah and Colorado looking for the missing pigs, and state veterinarians cut two ear clippings from a piglet’s ear for DNA testing. Prosecutors charged all five activists with felony burglary and theft charges, but by the time of the trial in 2022, two men faced up to 10 years in prison. At one point, because of an enhancement for crimes committed against animal enterprises, the two faced a sentence of up to 60 years, according to numerous press accounts.

But in a shocking twist, the jury in Washington County, Utah, sided with the activists.

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