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“Humane slavery is [NOT] okay!”
From the moment they are born to the moment they are slaughtered
It’s crueller not to eat it
“Veganism or bust”
Its tenets can teach us how to live at peace with our world
What we do now certainly affects all those around us
I believe that every bowl of tofu is responsible for the death of billions of things
WANTED—A NAME
I was an abolitionist waiting to happen
The very things necessary to the overthrow of American slavery, were left undone
The way to oppose the exploitation of all non-human animals
Where do we draw the line?
Behind the protective veil of property status
All beings capable of suffering are entitled to the “principle of equal consideration”
I think this is the realization that will make veganism mainstream
Should the immediate Abolitionists ever succeed
Cows with guns
Once you go vegan, you can never, ever, really go back
It’s important to remember
The mindset of those benefiting from the exploitation of others remains remarkably consistent
Ergo, it is Just
I believe veganism is the most important social justice movement today
“Human Zoos”
Adoption and fostering is an important part of animal rights activism
I urge all advocates
I hate to kill
Justice and respect for all living beings is the ideal focus
Stand Tall—Be Vegan!
The only logical way to end the exploitation of nonhumans
I might never have gotten out
Speciesism is as abhorrent and inconsistent as any other prejudice
THE WORLD IS VEGAN! If you want it.
Slavery is Slavery
An explicit refusal to participate in animal slavery
Every time I drop them in the boiling water I cry for a moment
No sentient being is an “it”
Veganism is the only option
The freedom to not give a fuck
Of all wrongs I have committed
The truth will set them free
I’ve been vegan for 2.5 years and have never looked back
Ethical omnivores … a noble goal
To sustainably bring an end to modern slavery
Your message will be absolutely life-changing
Abolition is a much greater evil
The animal welfare movement is actually encouraging the “compassionate” consumption of animal products
Be clear and consistent in your vegan advocacy. Be abolitionist.
I do not love all animals
Being vegan isn’t about doing something “hip” or “cool”
Welfare versus Abolition
A debt bondage that can be equated legally with modern slavery
Veganism is not just about what goes into your mouth
God made each of us different so we could BE different!!
We are abolitionist in intention
Prejudice is a funny thing
It turns out you can just drive to a farm and buy some chickens
When they have reached the end of a productive life
That is sentience
I choose not to participate in the exploitation of others
The Truth
Wrong on both counts
What you might not see
To prove our superiority
Veganism makes the statement that slavery is wrong
It only took a simple thing like that to make me vegan
Vegetarianism = enslavement, torture, exploitation and slaughter of animals
The key is to educate others about why you take the position
There is only one reason not to go vegan: palate pleasure
Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike
I understood that you’re either vegan or you’re not
Animals are our slaves
I am not a vegan because I “love animals”
This year I’ve basically become a vegetarian since the only meat I’m eating is from animals I’ve killed myself
I am an atheist and a vegan because I believe in equality
It shouldn’t matter what other human or nonhuman animals do or do not do
The only logical and rational way to react
There are many ways it could be done more humanely
A matter of morality
“Because if you did, you’d be vegan yourself”
Just because something is legal does not make it right
I am an animal lover
Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality
The human capacity to embrace both justice and compassion
Slavery is the great test question of our age and nation
Because you look different from me and you can only moo
A moral blind spot
You can enjoy your Christmas lunch and still care about the animals that provided it
It made me grateful to have a tongue
The RSPCA’s tough free-range standards
Rabbits are easier to replace
Vegan—a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life
I wouldn’t do a little dance of joy while I was slicing the animal apart
Rules of civility and fairness should never go out the window
But unless you pay a little more for his brothers’ bacon
What is the foundation of human rights, that is not foundation, for animal rights also?
Its the raw grit to honor and tame all at once
Animal exploitation, however deceptively described as “humane,” is not morally justifiable
It is part of me; it’s who I am
Exploitation, violence and injustice all rolled together
It is pretended, that I am retarding the cause of emancipation
I hunt because I love to spend time with all of God’s creation
Myself, I couldn’t promote anything less than veganism
Love to hunt for love the peace and quiet of nature
Bad habits and thoughtlessness in everyday people
Hunting is so much more than just killing an animal!
I No Longer Steal from Nature
But over time we realized that our goals are the same
That is not forcing any beliefs on anyone
I think of an ex-vegan like I think of an ex-nonracist or ex-nonsexist
If I was at a party and there was a tray of cheese sitting there
What’s hard about veganism isn’t being vegan
We agreed to abandon slavery 62 years ago
Too bad I couldn’t watch it get slaughtered and hear it cry
Like the abolitionists before us
Out of the hands of their cruel tyrants
They know nothing of the bond that unites the master and servant
I saw the future in a dream today, where Abolitionist Veganism had become mainstream
We don’t buy meat from who-knows-where
Veganism isn’t about maintaining a state of absolute purity
As an activist, I know change is coming
We kill them without stress
Human imperialism has everywhere enslaved, oppressed, murdered and mutilated the animal peoples
Giving people the green light to consume dairy and other animal products
Patient, relentless, and persistent abolitionist vegan education
Domestication is an evolutionary, rather than a political, development
VEGANISM: That thing you do when you finally start taking the rights of others seriously
What animals deserve: the total abolition of their use
Advocating for non-human animals should be about the non-human animals
We have to let our hearts be bigger than our stomachs and live vegan
Animal use is wrong! They are persons not things! They are individuals not “goods”!
Don’t let anyone tell you that the public is too stupid or too uncaring to take veganism seriously
They wouldn’t produce milk or offspring, so I started eating them
Anyone who tells you that veganism is daunting is misinformed and most likely not vegan themselves
Most important is that we should get the message right
And for christ sake, let’s stop being patronising and dishonest to people
Animal advocates should be ethical vegans and should engage in creative, non-violent vegan education
We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely
It makes sense to not torture and murder other beings for mere pleasure
And it isn’t as if I’m vegan, as Wikipedia claims
You will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls
Where slavery exists, virtue and morality are swept as with a flood of corruption
Without public demand, there would be no suppliers
Which permitted him to annihilate the bond of community between him and the animal kingdom
Beholding every day cruelties repugnant to humanity
Veganism: easy, healthy, ecological—and the just & right thing to do
God created animals for the benefits of human beings
If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong … nothing is wrong
Peace begins the moment we recognize that we are all interconnected
Use = abuse
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time
The ruthless destruction of the most vulnerable among us
A person can be sold over and over again in the same night
All you’re really doing is telling people that it’s acceptable to take ownership of another living being
All forms of slavery MUST be abolished!
I am a speciesist and I don’t believe that animals have rights
To the principles of the Abolitionists
Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals
You can have my meat when you pry it out of my dead cold hands
The World is Vegan, if you want it. It’s not a slogan, it’s a plan.
I drive by the same fields and see slaves, one day to be murdered
Everyone who consumes animals is, I am afraid, in the same boat as it were
I mean, you got a parakeet, why not have two chickens?
These latest results far exceed anything we could have predicted
Seeing photos of these shackles online conjures up images of slavery
Anyone who is vegan needs to make sure they have confronted their own speciesism
For both moral and practical reasons, captive-breeding is unjust
Cause you know, there’s NOTHING else to eat in the world other than animal products
Being vegan is far different than just eating like one
But if we were to adopt it, we could eat meat, milk and eggs (albeit much less) with a clean conscience
Dear vegans, you are ambassadors of a vegan world yet unmanifest
We can—and should—present veganism as the FIRST step toward respecting nonhuman animals
There are a growing number of people who, if they feel good about what they’re eating, will eat veal
Going vegan is not the most you can do, it’s the least you can do
Veganism is not a matter of compassion or mercy
But seriously, I love red meat
“I am only a passenger”
A violation of all the laws of God and man at once
The Scriptures do sanction slaveholding
Abolition spurns all
But that many civilized, nay, christianized people should approve
There is nothing particularly unusual about the abuse at Conklin Dairy Farm
My choice, my life, my food
No laws of men or nations, can alter the nature of immutable justice
Our goal with the sheep is to produce friendly, organic ewes that we can sell
I choose what I eat for long term health and longevity
A common criticism is that the time is not yet ripe for our reform
It might make me a speciesist to say this
Working with slaveholding corporations
The language of reform is always severe
A brother’s soul you find
Cutting back on those things, while better than not, still amounts to participating in them
Want to make veganism more popular? Start by talking about it.
The position of the American Dietetic Association
Let us never silence our voices in defense of nonhuman animals
Sick of getting Gestapo’ed by the vegan Fun Police
A moral and political commitment to non-violence
RACE, cultural construct based on the popular, but mistaken notion
The negro would appear to stand on a lower evolutionary plane than the white man
$50 REWARD. —Ran away from the subscriber, a negro fellow named Dick
The influence of economic motives on the action of mankind
“Humane” slaughter is still slaughter, and “kind” confinement is still confinement
Upon which so much of Australia depends
There’s a sense that if you pay for Fairtrade you don’t have to worry
Consumers have the choice
My concern, let me emphasize, is not with small-scale family farms
Always keep in mind why you are doing it and who you are doing it for
From that love, I wanted to devote my life to working towards saving them
Elitist and exclusionary
Eating and wearing death
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others
It’s not prostitution—it’s coercion, abuse, slavery
We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery
Slavery is alive and well in our world today
To that end, I guess I’m okay being called a fanatic
But others just buy a wife from North Korea and have her shipped over, like an imported wine
Cracking down on demand seems a useful way to chip away at 21st-century slavery
Ending demand for slavery means ending demand for the goods and services trafficked people produce
The man that says slaves be quite happy in slavery—that they don’t want to be free—that man is either ignorant or a lying person
The regulations proposed by this writer, in the defence of slavery, may be considered as so many proofs of the assertions contained in my own work
Regulation won’t set anyone free, It’ll merely tighten the grips of your slavery
“The idea of ending slavery seemed totally utopian, crackpot, wildly too idealistic”
“East India Sugar not made by Slaves.”
There would be plenty of other vegans if we just promoted Veganism!
But many a hardheaded realist could—and did—say exactly the same thing to those who first proposed to end slavery
The first antislavery group in Britain to demand immediate emancipation
To believers I ask, “Which is it? Is God good or monstrous?”
The efficacy of women in linking sugar to slavery was widely recognized
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, For how could we do without sugar and rum?
This is the plight of America’s vulnerable and those we exploit abroad
ABOLISH CHILD SLAVERY!!
Anti-slavery abolitionists wouldn’t have wasted time and energy on each other’s indiscretions
I know that there must be a price
And that is why I ate steak for dinner last night
None of us has the luxury of shunning the kill
Veganism is the single most important form of social activism that anybody can engage in
Many slaves suffer from drapetomania, or the disease causing negroes to run away
There are more slaves in the world today than there were in the 1790s, when the Capitol building was built
So that people can own “pets”
And he would indulge me by sharing a steak on occasion
VALUABLE GANG OF YOUNG NEGROES Will be sold at Auction
I assume these "animal rights campaigners" are not animal rights advocates after all
Killing animals for human use, even if we have treated animals humanely, is fundamentally unjust
The doctrine therefore, that moral evil is inherent in slavery is altogether fanciful and untenable
That would be like us eating ice cream every day
But now that cleaner, naturally fed meat is available
Fellow Citizens, AN ABOLITIONIST, of the most revolting character is among you
Then we will overlook the majority of animal exploiters and animal exploitation trainers
I don’t want to give the impression that it is the only thing one can do to eat ethically
However vast the good to be achieved, or small the evil to be resorted to
All exploitation of sentient beings is related
Why am I vegan?
A refuge, a remedy, or at least a reprieve
Where abuse is routine, invisible, ubiquitous, and often defined as socially acceptable
Until we can reach a day without modern slavery
All of us have a responsibility to bring this practice to an end
Human security
Differences in cognitive abilities should not in any way lead to someone being used as a slave
A palpable ignorance of the divine will
What an idiotic absurdity it is
I hold that there is just one variety of veganism
An assertion that their products are somehow “humane”
I don’t mix food and morals
Judging them inaccurately
But why so vehement! so unyielding! so severe!
A mark of inferiority
But I am ready to resist unto death
If there is no struggle there is no progress
My soul should be, as it is, on fire
If the buying, selling and holding of a slave for the sake of gain is a heinous sin and scandal
God has permitted slavery for wise reasons
Their mean and despicable contrivances to deprive us of our Slave property
My scheme was visionary—fanatical—unattainable
These men can be silenced in but one way—Terror—Death
Can you make room in your home for someone in need?
There is one strong argument in favor of negro slavery over all other slavery
Human trafficking—the polite term for "slavery"—is more pervasive than many people suspect
Working toward a world without modern slavery is no doubt a bold proposition
Hatred to slavery is very generally little more than hatred of negroes
The Abolition party hire spies or agents to report every thing in accordance with their own wishes and prejudices
But when I show them that to hold bondmen forever is ordained by God
This I conceive to be the darkest feature of slavery
Our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals
The most effectual abolitionists
The greater and original evil is considering the slave as property
Enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal
56 billion land animals die every year for human consumption and use
This land of light, humanity, and christian knowledge
Such is the order of providence
The native citizen of the slave-holding state displays
“No Compromise with Slavery! No Union with Slaveholders!”
They tell us, also, that the slaveholders of the South are proverbially hospitable, kind, and generous
If slavery is “a good, a great good”
I object to the Colonization Society because it tends to put public opinion asleep
We know that modern slavery exists in communities and cultures spanning the globe
Human trafficking has become big business
When it comes to food, clothing, and entertainment
When it comes to the question of how we should treat nonhuman animals
By what class of people is the slavery of the Africans and their descendants supported and encouraged?
We need to unequivocally advocate for human rights and animal rights
The scope of Anti-Slavery is boundless
The scheme of Colonization pleased all
There is no difference between the animals we eat, and the puppy we cuddle and love
I got into butchery because it made me feel tough
We must appreciate that what might be considered natural and inherent in human nature
Our little chicken was very much on my mind as we ate her
We have been trained by a history of thinking
My take on all of this sustainable meat dialogue is a bit mixed
Veganism is NOT about how easy or hard it is for YOU
But when the time comes to enjoy something cultural
And still eat meat
Our path to peace will commence
If the public’s ready to hear about veganism
To live one’s life as a non-violent Abolitionist Vegan
Veganism is increasingly easy in the 21st century
Except some vegan extremists
Veganism is the only moral choice if we truly want to reduce suffering
Become a vegan and stand up for the rights of all animals
Our addiction to killing keeps us in the dark ages
If we are to eradicate animal exploitation, we must abolish animals’ commodity status
I’m technically a vegan
Why can we not see?
We should be teaching people about veganism and that using animals is wrong
We can’t be honest with our children
Welfare activities are part of a vicious circle
How can anyone hope to stop animal suffering when humans suffer?
Offal lovers were in for a treat
What’s extreme, if anything, is the way we treat other sentient beings
Veganism is the moral baseline of what we owe other animals
Animals do not need your pity
The level of appreciation for nature and life
There, there would be no stress at all
Veganism is the very least that we owe to the thinking, feeling creatures with whom we share the Earth
Such scenes of horror
I wake up and live my life in line with my ethics
We ought to consider
I can see a situation where we’ve been riding all day
A Negro may be said to have fewer cares
It is their fortune to fall into the hands of rational and benevolent owners
Because their pigs are treated so well
But justice is usually labeled as radical while injustice is often accepted as the standard
The ones who have the most to lose
But veganism is one thing and one thing only
I like to know what the animal was eating before I eat it
Before he is ready to lay the first stone of his anti-slavery life
Slavery is now sustained chiefly through the influence of the pulpit
So what they showed was rose quartz, chickens and orchids all feel
I hold it to be a good
So, is meat better when it’s kosher?
And I’ll stop only if one day foxy-woxy turns up with a bigger gun than mine
Not a pet
In order to be lasting, actions intended to respect non-human animals must start with veganism
We need to put forth positive examples of veganism, and to live as proud vegans
As Christians
Slavery is indeed an evil of the most hideous and destructive kind
Reformation always begins in the heart of a solitary individual
Starting after a celebratory burger
I’ll be down the street drinking beer and eating tacos
The consequent inertia of the mass, most terrible of all resistance to overcome
Strangely enough, if one is consistent in defending all animals, one is called an extremist
The thing we must emphasize is that we can be vegan
Where most people do not see a moral difference between eating a hamburger and a carrot
A FURTHER scriptural evidence
We are not prepared to admit
The catalysts for my newfound carnivore enthusiasm
Denying their sentience and personhood
The least of these
I received impressions from Mr. Bourne which I could not get rid of
Rescuing many millions of Africans
Some gentlemen may … object to the slave trade as inhuman and impious
The only marvel is, that men of sense can be gulled by such professions
One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognises a human being in a slave
So profoundly ignorant of the nature of slavery are many persons
Nature, governed by unerring laws
The hazard of alienation and division
In England, or in Europe, abolition is like stars and garters
This is an exciting time to be both a carnivore and a farmer
We desperately need a radical reworking of what veganism means in social discourse
Who’s the real fundamentalist?
If few die … the voyage is lucrative
Our slavery has not only given existence to millions of slaves
Dreams of innocence are just that
We call it a vegan world
No one should be offended
I want to develop a taste for rabbit
Including dairy products and animal meat
We are teaching our children to be selective
But what if we all repeated the exact same thing?
Some look their killer in the eyes
If he has to eat something with butter, he will
I felt so connected to life
As the lived expression of nonviolence, veganism is the path to heaven
Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance
The physical condition of the American negro
A division which Gary Francione has defined as moral schizophrenia
A minimum standard of decency
The status quo is unquestioned
There are many more positive conditions of slavery
AS COMFORTABLE A STATE, AS THE LOWER ORDERS OF MANKIND
Of all the systems of iniquity that ever cursed the world
Brethren of the North, be not deceived
No man, who has any sense of the value of liberty
Slavery does not appear to be consistent with the letter of one article in the Declaration of Independence
Some are actually found so far to excell others
Slavery is a violent deprivation of the rights of nature, and inconsistent with a republican government
In truth he has never lost his freedom
Why do vegans have to be so careful about how we are telling non-vegans THE TRUTH?
A fundamental disagreement with the idea that non-human animals are objects for our use
They come over my memory like gory spectres
Over the course of the next few hours, the pig becomes completely utilitarian
It is Jesus’s birthday after all
However we look at the question, the right to enslave is null and void
I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice
The American Anti-Slavery Society is endangering the peace and union of the Churches in the United States
We bought the goats and slaughtered them on the farm
It is a question of right and wrong, and not a question of more or less
And so you’re harvesting them like an apple or anything else you’ve been cultivating
To these crazy opinions, he adds the crazy conduct of persisting in expressing them
Christ gave humanity permission to eat all animals
Men admired their firmness, while they regretted the delusion under which it was thought they acted
Well, I can’t go vegan because travelling like I do, I really, really don’t think I could
Lacto-vegetarianism is but a half-way house
Every deprivation of freedom is a species of servitude or slavery
He is a piece of property—a marketable commodity
William Lloyd Garrison attacked the monstrous wrong
Slavery has existed and ever will exist, in all ages, in some form, and some degree
Even the most doted upon slaves are still slaves
To this self-righteous and self-exalted class
The exploitation and intentional slaughter of sentient beings
You just need a basic understanding and a will to change for the better
What have the Abolitionists done, what have they given, for the Negro race?
If the statement “I used to be vegan” is in any way offensive to you
For far less cause than this, our fathers separated from the Crown of England
It makes you consistent and unequivocal in your eschewing involvement in the exploitation of nonhuman animals
The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and, in some sense, the freest people in the world
And then there are people who don’t eat meat because it’s against their morals
I don’t see anything really wrong with that
Veganism is a matter of justice
A master may, in an important sense, be the guardian and even father of his slaves
The slave power always laughed at the political and economic arguments against it
If you’re not comfortable with what you’re doing, you might want to examine why
I let myself eat cheese, fish and meat, either because I’m craving it, or for convenience
I can’t find any sound moral justification for acknowledging the interest of one species while denying it to the other
The price of Negroes keeps up amazingly
Equal right to Liberty, and all other Comforts of Life
The African trade is precious not only because of gold and ivory
I’m making up for a decade of deprivation
To shift to cage-free eggs
As Axes, Hoes, or any other Utensil of Agriculture
Replace the nonhuman in your question with a human
With Fear and Trembling, in Singleness of Heart
The vulnerable ones should be protected, not exploited
Animal rights philosophy could be considered a disease of civilization
Seeing them as persons and not things
We saw very little hope of accomplishing, by reason that the trade of this country lay wholly in slaves and ivory
Where they may have the knowledge of the One True God
Slavery is an oppression on the mind
I can’t accept that idea
Creative, nonviolent vegan education
Making it tougher
“Why Veganism?”
We enslave, torture, and then steal their lives from them
Trying to prove the abolitionists wrong
“Why are you a vegetarian?”
Just because
Tools of the trade
Why stop beating your spouse?
We animals
Your purpose, not theirs
Dangerous lies
On regulation and breaking laws
Who’s being elitist?
Leonardo da Vinci addresses the infamous plant question
“Sorry Randy!”
Vegan abolitionists tell it like it is