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The modern Vegetarian movement, much like the old, has brought determination and strength to their cause. Yet, unlike the older writers and activists -- those noble poets who would spend a night on a hill in the wilderness, marvelling at the tears of the stars -- unlike their ancestors, the modern Vegetarian movement has gained validity from science and literature. |
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By Punkerslut
From www.punkerslut.com
It is the notion of our time that non-human animals exist for the advancement of the human species. In whatever field -- cookery, fashion, blood-sports -- it is held that we can only be concerned with animals as far as human interests exist. There may be some sympathy for those animals, as to limit practices which cause excruciating suffering, but those may only be limited if they are brought to public light, and if legislators receive enough pressure from the public to change. |
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Most other members of my species, presumably cut from the same mold, seem not to be concerned over the institutionalized killing of animals for "food." Yet, the mere thought of the fear and agony experienced by the "farmed" animals who are killed for no reason other than the greedy desire for the taste of their flesh breaks my heart... My heart must be defective. |
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Author: Punkerslut
Yes; but all animals condemned to live,
All sentient things, born by the same stern law,
Suffer like me, and like me also die.
-- Voltaire
["Poem on the Lisbon Disaster," by Voltaire, translated by Joseph McCabe. Quoted from "A Treatise on Toleration and Other Essays," Prometheus Books, 1994, page 4.]
This piece is dedicated to Animal Liberation Front (ALF), their agents, their cells, and all that they have done for us...
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