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Let Them Eat Bugs (when capitalists address hunger) | Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 16, 2013 “If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.” - Jonas Salk Billions of humans are hungry, industrial propagandists have corrupted our understanding (sic) of nutrition, and much of how we’re programmed to eat is rapi...
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Waters Off Northeast US Coast Unusually Warm, Says NOAA | Eoin O'Carroll
Sea surface temperatures on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf reached the highest recorded in 150 years, says an advisory issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A lobsterman returns an undersized lobster while checking traps in Mount Desert, Maine, in May 2012. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP/File) April 26, 2013 (Christian Science Monitor) -- From North Carolina to Maine, the wa...
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Reminder: There’s Always Something to Do… Right Now | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 24, 2013 “The old proletariat sold its labor power in order to subsist. The new proletarian sells his labor power in order to consume.” -Raoul Vaneigem Recently, while riding the Q101 bus during rush hour, I found it interesting and kinda' fun to watch the driver interact with his regular passengers -- but one exchange really st...
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Speciesism: Left Out Of The Left Forum? Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 17, 2013 “Your old road is rapidly agin'/Please get out of the new one/If you can't lend your hand/For the times, they are a-changin'” - Dylan In 2010, I was part of an animal rights (AR) panel at the Left Forum (LF). To the best of my knowledge, this was one of the first -- if not, the first -- AR panels ever presente...
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slavery: a capitalist parable | mickey z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. mickey z. -- world news trust april 5, 2013 in the most remote regions of brazil… slave labor is employed to cut down grand swaths of the precious rain forest to make room for growing eucalyptus, which is then burned by male slaves male slaves, who exploit the body, mind, and spirit of female slaves forced into prostitution male slaves, who help make charcoal for the ...
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Toward Liberation: For Animals and Language | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 1, 2013 “If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” - George Orwell In her poem, “The ABCs of Atrocity,” my friend Vi Ransel writes: Animals are the means we use to teach our children not only the basics of speech,but to give them the tools they're going to needto begin elementary reading. We ask "W...
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Coyote Ugly: The NY Times Endorses Speciesism | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 26, 2013 “All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.” - Will Rogers It’s fascinating to witness the intellectual gymnastics required to rationalize speciesism. So often, when animals are abused, confined, tortured, or killed, the perpetrators and benefactors hide behind lies about the vic...
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Genetically Modified Animals: Reject Speciesism | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 22, 2013 “Atrocities are no less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research." - GB Shaw When my friend Marianne sent me an NPR interview about the thriving business of genetically modified animals, I wasn’t even remotely surprised to witness NPR’s superficial and speciesist perspective. Effective...
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The GMO That Could Have Killed Nearly All Life On Earth | Fritz Kreiss
March 26, 2013 (Nation Of Change) -- Meet Klebsiella Planticola, perfectly harmless and abundant in natural form, but after some tinkering by biotech scientists thinking their “invention” would save the world’s problems it very likely could have become the most deadly biological weapon known to man. These little guys belong to a family of enterobacteria, most of them live in places like our gut...
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Predator Scorecard: Sharks: 7, Humans: 50-100 Million | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 28, 2013 “Our human blind spot is how we treat animals, and by extension, our only home: planet earth.” - Sue Coe It’s the type of story the mainstream media just can’t resist: “Large shark kills man in New Zealand; beach closed” (Associated Press, Feb. 27, 2013). It’s also a valuable teaching moment, re: speciesism, social condition...
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Polluted America | Paul Craig Roberts
Feb. 24, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- In the United States everything is polluted. Democracy is polluted with special interests and corrupt politicians. Accountability is polluted with executive branch exemptions from law and the Constitution and with special legal privileges for corporations, such as the Supreme Court-given right to corporations to purchase American elections. The Constituti...
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