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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