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Attacking speciesism or humanism?

This article is a transcript and development of an online conference that took place on the 8th of May 2020, organized by the Swiss association PEA – Pour l’Égalité Animale (it can be viewed here). A bibliography covering the topics discussed in this article and at the conference is available Read more…

By Yves Bonnardel, 2 days ago

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Doing away with the concept of Nature, back to ethics and politics

Neither order, natural equilibrium, nor nature of things. Neither harmony nor finality. Neither totality nor power. Nature doesn’t exist. However, this cosmogony still invests modern thought.

By Yves Bonnardel, 11 monthsJuly 27, 2021 ago

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Fish: Sensitivity Beyond the Captor’s Grasp

By Joan Dunayer Originally published in The Animals’ Agenda, July/Aug. 1991, pp. 12-13, 15-18 Copyright 1991 Joan Dunayer As more people become aware of the sensitivity of fish, fish will begin to receive the compassion and respect they deserve. Blackie, a severely deformed Moor goldfish, could barely swim. Big Red, a Read more…

By Ness, 9 monthsSeptember 30, 2021 ago

WAM9706-Samantha Robinson with rescued sheep at Farm Sanctuary

Feminism and animal rights

What could explain the historical association between the animal liberation movement and the feminist movement?

By Yves Bonnardel, 12 monthsJuly 15, 2021 ago

March To Close Down All Slaughterhouses, Toronto 2018. Photo Jo-Anne McArthur

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On ‘purity’

The importance of a collective struggle has to be emphasized, because the focus on individual acts should not take precedence over the struggle at hand.

By Françoise Blanchon, 1 yearJune 20, 2021 ago

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The myth of species

For David Olivier, the concept of species only possesses the fundamental value we attribute to it because it is the key to the ideological system that accompanies it.

By Frédéric Mesguich, 2 yearsJuly 14, 2020 ago

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Taking the basic interests of fish seriously

Although more and more people are speaking out against the injustice happening in slaughterhouses, we tend to forget the floating abattoirs we usually call “fishing boats”.

By Frédéric Mesguich, 2 yearsJuly 13, 2020 ago

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Meat consumption and domination marking

Over the last few decades, people have become increasingly sensitive towards animals in general and behaviours are slowly beginning to change. This unfortunately hasn’t translated into any kind of improvement for the vast majority of animals.

By Frédéric Mesguich, 2 yearsJuly 13, 2020 ago

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The case for realistic radicalism

By criticising humanism, we could be throwing the baby out with the bathwater, or in any case, that the general public might think we are. David Olivier believes that this fear is largely well-founded.

By Frédéric Mesguich, 2 yearsJuly 13, 2020 ago

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On superiority

Equality simply means that if we treat individuals differently, or give them different rights, it should be for specific reasons other than social class, race, sex or species.

By Frédéric Mesguich, 2 yearsJuly 12, 2020 ago

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Animal Advocates Should Focus On Anti-speciesism, Not Veganism

For Magnus Vinding The core of antispeciesism is clear, easy to communicate, and much follows from it in terms of the practical implications.

By Mata'i Souchon, 2 yearsJuly 12, 2020 ago

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Humanism and the promotion of a natural order

David Olivier exhaustively deconstructs the speciesist-humanist ideology, demonstrating that it can exist only on a foundation of assumptions about innate natures and essences that have long been debunked by science.

By Frédéric Mesguich, 2 yearsJuly 11, 2020 ago

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Taste and murder

We are not simply or passively immersed in natural or social culinary traditions or taste preferences, and we do not cling to our practices solely by “force of habit” or inertia – rather, these practices have meaning for us, a specific significance to which we are actively committed.

By Frédéric Mesguich, 2 yearsJuly 10, 2020 ago

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