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" You can't condone exploitation and oppression, and demand not to be exploited or oppressed. You can't rule over the lives of others, and demand to be master of your own life. You can't walk around stabbing animals (or paying others to do it for you), and complain when someone does something to hurt you. You have to put out what you want back.
Arguing that animals are small brained and therefore it's ok to mistreat them, is small brained. Arguing that animals eat animals and that's why you do it too, is behaving like an animal. Arguing that you're an apex predator when you've probably never even stabbed a single pig in your life makes no sense at all. Arguing "protein!" just shows how little you understand about nutrition. Arguing that our ancestors did so, is simply primitive.
Kindness and compassion are not things to be mocked and jeered at, they are positive traits that are vital for the future of mankind and for the moral progress of humanity. If we are ever to see an end to tyranny of our own kind, by our own kind, we have to stop behaving as if we are the only species that matter! As Gandhi once said, you can judge the moral progress of a nation by the way it treats its animals. "
― Mango Wodzak
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" The Conveyor Belt
Conceived, carried, cut out, torn, born,
slapped, named, numbered,
needled, drugged, stodged, stuffed,
shod, shorn, collared, tied, capped,
herded, classed, seated, schooled,
brought up, put down, labelled a sinner,
smacked, caned, loved, deceived, cuffed,
suited, sorted, thwarted,
broken, tamed, healed, polished, ironed,
worked, used, taxed, mortgaged, owned,
chiselled, chained, oiled, tanned, plastered,
tempted, failed,
wired, subscribed, registered, addicted,
hitched, kidded, hounded, feared,
poisoned, sickened, pilled,
nipped, tucked, wigged,
bedded, heart attacked.
Freed!
Buried, burned, mourned and forgotten..
Next Please! "
― Mango Wodzak , Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy
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" When people take the short lifetime of an animal, filled with suffering and abuse, rape and mutilation, humiliation and commodification, and reduce all that down to "meat", this is such an incredibly selfish attitude, filled with arrogance and apathy towards the animal in question.
You'll often hear such people cry "freedom of choice", while at the same time depriving these animals of any "freedom" throughout the entirety of their lives. Beings who are given zero "choice" in the matter. At the merciless hands of consumer demand, they will have their tails docked, their ears clipped, their beaks cut off, their testicles twisted and pulled off, searing hot irons pushed into the sides of their bodies(all without anaesthetics). They'll be sexually violated, have their babies stolen, their movements restricted, forced to live lives of anguish, despair and torment. They'll suffer long, arduous journeys, In cramped conditions, with nothing to drink or eat, until finally they are prodded, kicked and shocked along a production line that ends in,bolts to their heads (often ineffective), and knives to their throat, scalding water or even the gas chamber. All so that these people can gratify themselves with the fleeting, perverse pleasure of their secretions (milk and eggs) or the slayed animal's butchered fried flesh.
The same people will cry out for "respect", while simultaneously fully disrespecting and disregarding the lives of others that they will do their utmost to downplay and ignore. "
― Mango Wodzak
