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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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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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Worth The Burger? | Deborah Goodwin
April 1, 2013 (ShapeShiftas.com) -- On Good Friday, my husband and I found ourselves with a rare occurrence -- both girls out, and no pickups needed until the next day. Date Night! We got the older daughter off on her weekend away, dropped our younger at the school dance, verified the sleep-over arrangements, and then looked at each other with amazement and joy. What shall we do with our parental...
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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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There’s No Place Like Homeless | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 7, 2013 “Ladies and gentlemen, soliciting money in the subway is illegal. We ask you not to give. Please help us to maintain an orderly subway.” - NYC subway announcement I joined the writing staff of the infamous NYC homeless publication, Street News, shortly after John "Indio" Washington became editor-in-chief. As you mig...
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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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Copy Editing for Total Liberation (Until Every Cage is Empty) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 13, 2013 Almost everywhere I look, I witness radicals and revolutionaries participating in, exploiting, and sanctioning the illusory privileges of speciesism. For example, I was recently part of a panel of seven people, discussing climate change, fracking, tar sands, eco-defense, and more at a NYC event. Outside of a tangential referen...
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Speciesism: The Forgotten Privilege | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan 22, 2013 The future will only contain what we put into it now (graffiti, Paris 1968) Last week, a friend of mine in Hong Kong brought to my attention an animal-related news story. It seems “scores of crocodiles perished” in a Shenzen, China zoo called Rural Grand View Garden, after “suffering a barrage of trash and projectiles from cal...
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