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Discussions about specific materials / Bullfights in Mexico City

« Last post by E.A.S on April 02, 2025, 03:31:53 AM »

About a week ago animal rights activists celebrated a win after the Mexico City Congress voted on what they call a ban on "violent bullfights." But can we really talk in terms of winning?

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Discussions about specific materials / Whole Exploitation

« Last post by E.A.S on February 26, 2025, 06:18:02 AM »

Animal rights activists’ hope to ever see the milk industry finally shut down, is being crushed by whole milk consumption increase in the U.S, raw milk’ consumption being normalized, and cheese consumption steadily increasing.

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Discussions about specific materials / Habeas Speciesism

« Last post by E.A.S on January 29, 2025, 07:15:10 AM »

A few days ago the Colorado Supreme Court ruled unanimously that elephants do not have legal standing to challenge their captivity. This ruling, which followed a lawsuit filed by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP), an organization advocating for legal personhood and rights for animals (based on the legal procedure Habeas Corpus), beyond blocking the legal effort to release five African elephants from the prison in Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs and move them to an elephant sanctuary, along with previous lawsuits by the NRP that were also rejected by courts in New York, California, and Hawaii, formally and legally indicates and perpetuates speciesism.

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Discussions about specific materials / Gadhimai 2024

« Last post by E.A.S on December 18, 2024, 08:45:08 AM »

Despite what was previously thought by many activists to be the end of the gruesome centuries-old slaughter Nepalese ritual called Gadhimai, as religious authorities had announced that it should, and after the Supreme Court of Nepal has reached a verdict in favor of ending it, this week, Hindu worshippers have slaughtered thousands of animals as part of this religious slaughter ritual

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Discussions about specific materials / COP 29

« Last post by E.A.S on November 25, 2024, 10:05:15 AM »

Expectedly, the 29th climate convention, like all previous ones, has ended without a final paper stating the obvious which is the end of fossil fuels, and similar to previous climate conventions it has been a failure in all other aspects as well.
However, the world is so defective, and in such a fundamental manner, that even if animal food industry received much more attention in relation to climate change and other environmental issues, these are not necessarily good news. It is highly likely that this will make things even worse.

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Discussions about specific materials / The Real Case for Wild Animal

« Last post by E.A.S on September 23, 2024, 02:28:47 AM »

A critical review of Martin Balluch’s arguments against intervention in nature.

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Discussions about specific materials / World Day for the End of Speciesism

« Last post by E.A.S on September 01, 2024, 05:35:56 AM »

On the occasion of the tenth World Day for the End of Speciesism held today, we wish to republish our post about this day from 8 years ago, as it is relevant today as it was then.

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Discussions about specific materials / The Problem of Speaking for Animals

« Last post by E.A.S on July 22, 2024, 04:14:12 AM »

A critical review of the article The Problem of Speaking for Animals by Jason Wyckoff, who argues that animal advocates face a special case of "the problem of speaking for others", mainly because when it comes to nonhuman animals "nearly all humans occupy a position of privilege and so nearly all speakers and their audiences will be situated in “discursively dangerous” positions."

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Discussions about specific materials / Humanism as a Virtue

« Last post by E.A.S on July 04, 2024, 06:56:23 AM »

In the former post we have critically reviewed a book suggesting Kantian account of humans’ obligation to animals. In the following one we critically review an article suggesting that virtue ethics is the right approach to ethical veganism.

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Discussions about specific materials / Artificial Worsening

« Last post by E.A.S on April 10, 2024, 05:10:49 AM »

Peter Singer is raising concerns about AI systems significantly impacting nonhuman animals, most likely not in a positive way