IF SLAUGHTERHOUSES HAD GLASS WALLS… A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD STILL EAT MEAT.

If all that was needed to convince people to stop eating animals was to expose them to the horrors of factory farms and slaughterhouses, every person who has ever seen a video on the meat industry would be a vegan. The dominant view of our culture is that humans are entitled to use nonhuman animals in service to our needs. The growing popularity of “humane meat” speaks to our movement’s success in exposing the horrors of the factory farm – and our utter failure to challenge the underlying idea that animals are ours to use for food. If we want to truly abolish the meat industry rather than simply generating business for “happy meat” mongers, we need to attack animal oppression at its foundation by challenging the premise that human interests take precedence over those of nonhuman animals and that animals exist for our use.

We need to challenge speciesism.

Watch Animal Ethics: Our New Video Page!

Expect this to be continually expanded.

http://readanimalethics.blogspot.com/p/videos.html

YBGud - Speciesism

http://www.ybgud.net/challenge/disc-issues-speciesism.html#6bi

Richard Ryder's Website

Website of Dr. Richard Ryder, inventor of the term specieisism, animal advocate, movement historian, and developer of the concept of painism.

Main Page: http://www.richardryder.co.uk/index.html

Speciesism Page: http://www.richardryder.co.uk/speciesism.html

Painism Page: http://www.richardryder.co.uk/painism.html

The Ethics of Painism: The Argument Against Painful Experiments by Richard D. Ryder

http://cla.calpoly.edu/bts/issue_02/02ryder.htm

On the Side of the Animals (part of our next reading selection)

On the Side of the Animals
by RSPCA

Introduction
This booklet is complementary to the RSPCA leaflet Ethical Concerns for Animals. It is a collection of short essays by contemporary philosophers who take a pro-animal stance and who have helped to bring about more sympathetic attitudes towards animals in Western society. Together, these philosophers have provided an academic basis for the disquiet about animal cruelty which has been growing for at least two centuries.