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« Last post by E.A.S on May 16, 2019, 02:17:57 AM »
The world record for deepest submarine dive ever was broken. During the 4 hours dive, the explorer spotted a plastic bag and candy wrappers on the seafloor of the deepest place on earth. This achievement of reaching the deepest place on earth, which humans rather see as how far they can reach as a species, is actually a symbol of how deep their destructive effect reaches. 
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« Last post by E.A.S on April 08, 2019, 02:37:25 AM »
Yesterday the guardian published an article regarding a new repot which ranks the deadliest cities in the US for birds. Up to one billion birds die in glass collisions every year in the US alone. Some birds are distracted by the buildings’ bright lights at night, and others are confused by their clear, reflective glass during the day. Skyscrapers are to birds, what cars are for numerous land animals – assassin tools. 
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« Last post by E.A.S on March 20, 2019, 08:05:34 AM »
For the last official day of the winter, a post about the fur industry and its comeback over the last two decades, after the animal rights community was sure that at least this sick industry is history. 
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« Last post by E.A.S on February 11, 2019, 05:29:55 AM »
The final part of the series of posts regarding Why We Love Dogs Eat Pigs and Wear Cows An Introduction to Carnism is respectively about the final chapter of the book, which suggests that humans must fight Carnism by bearing witness to the world atrocities, seriously arguing that with all the ugliness, there is also great beauty and potential in this world. 
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« Last post by E.A.S on January 21, 2019, 02:41:57 AM »
In the previous post regarding Melanie Joy’s Why We Love Dogs Eat Pigs and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism, we have focused on the biggest keystone of her thesis, the assumption that humans are naturally loving and caring towards animals. In this post we focus on her claim that humans are doing bad things despite being good, because they are unaware of the truth. 
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« Last post by E.A.S on January 08, 2019, 09:50:37 AM »
In the previous post regarding Melanie Joy’s Why We Love Dogs Eat Pigs and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism, we have focused on humans’ relations with dogs, being a keystone in her thesis. In this post we focus on an even greater keystone of her thesis, the assumption that humans are naturally loving and caring towards animals. 
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« Last post by E.A.S on December 24, 2018, 01:52:29 PM »
After we discussed Norbert Elias who argues that humans relation to meat changed because they started to feel repugnant by their own animality and so gradually felt repugnance for meat, and after discussing Nick Fiddes who argues that humans don’t eat meat despite that it is made out of animals but because it is made out of animals, and then Keith Tester who argues that humans who choose not to eat meat are actually doing so to define their own humanity, the following posts of this series about meat eating, will focus on Melanie Joy’s theory of Carnism 
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« Last post by E.A.S on November 11, 2018, 05:57:30 AM »
After addressing the estimation of the sociologist Norbert Elias that vegetarianism might be much more popular as part of a general and gradual refinement in humans’ social behavior, for the second part of the series about human relations with animals flesh eating, we wish to address a theory about meat by the anthropologist Nick Fiddes. In his book Meat: A Natural Symbol Fiddes suggests an anthropological explanation to why humans are so keen on meat, and what is according to him, the only condition which might alter them. Basically Fiddes argues that animals symbolize power and nature, and so eating them is the ultimate symbol of humans’ dominance, of their superiority over other animals, and their triumph over nature. So to put it bluntly, humans don’t eat meat despite that it’s made of murdered animals, but because it is made of murdered animals. We disagree that it is the only reason humans eat meat, but we definitely agree it is a very main one, and so it is highly important for activists to acknowledge it. 
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« Last post by E.A.S on October 02, 2018, 02:27:27 AM »
For the World Vegetarian Day, held yesterday, and for the World Farm Animals Day, held today, we discuss Norbert Elias’s Civilizing Process theory, which deals with the historical and cultural changes in humans’ behavior, including towards nonhumans. We are addressing this theory despite that it is relatively old, since it relates to a current and very popular notion in the animal rights movement - McCartney’s famous quote that “if slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian”. 
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« Last post by E.A.S on September 12, 2018, 12:17:18 PM »
Another article regarding nonhuman intelligence was published this week. Many activists repost such items and often refer to this topic. That is despite that they do recognize themselves that intelligence should in no way be a factor determining moral status. They probably do so, hoping that if humans hear that nonhumans are actually very smart, they’ll change their stance regarding their moral status. However, as we explain in the following post, it is very naïve to hope that facts will be able to refute speciesism, especially considering how little some of the greatest conceptual revolutions in human history have accomplished in placing humanity in a more reasonable place. 
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