The Politics of Meat

There was a woman waaay the heck back - who published a piece of work called The Vindication of the Rights of Women. Her name was Mary Wollstonecraft and she's looked at today as one of the forerunners of the feminist movement.
Back then - she was patted on the head and looked at as an IDIOT with BIG DREAMS - but full of nonsense.
"Stupid woman...to THINK for a MOMENT that your SPECIES feels pain, or is capable of hurt - or capable of ANYTHING other than GIVING US MEN PLEASURE. You dumb, silly, stupid, dreaming woman. Very cute that you actually wrote something...but let's face it honey...we both know those words you wrote really don't make much sense, do they?"
Her view - and the feminist view that women were not only NOT doormats, but were actually INTELLIGENT humans worthy of more than bearing children or making for a good punching bag - were made fun of.
A man published an essay in RESPONSE to her Vindication - called "A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes" - which was meant to refute her stance - and parody it.
He compared feminist notions and the "idea" of equal rights for women to the likes of giving rights to barnyard animals. He basically said EACH instance was EQUALLY ridiculous.
Saying "What next?? Equal rights for a DOG?!?!? A horse...? A CHICKEN??? Give me a BREAK!!!!" As he dipped a dead chicken wing in hot sauce (which his wife prepared for him) and tore flesh from the bone.
Of course - this seems ludicurous now...but what will our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren and the millions of people who will come AFTER us think of the way we treat animals today?
Vegetarianism IS EVOLUTION. And that's it.
Just as the on-going fights with racism, sexism, homophobia and countless other "phobia" and "isms" which for some reason, seem to have society by the very shrivelled testes - we need to END THIS.
Of course - no one is fighting for a dog's right to VOTE.
A dog, cannot vote.
Just as no man would ever fight for his right to have an abortion.
A man, cannot have an abortion.
But an animal - lives. Feels pain. And - is a BEING.
An animal does not LIVE to serve any other purpose - except live.
We forget that a piece of veal is months and months of starvation and suffering.
We forget that when the the slaughtering knife comes closer - the cow cries and cringes with WIDE and TERRIFIED EYES - unable to CALCULATE what is about to happen to it.
People at my work say this is not true.
It is.
When ANYTHING is being STABBED - I don't care if you are a HUMAN, a PUPPY or a fucking ELEPHANT - YOU KNOW YOU ARE BEING STABBED.
When something is being CARVED UP ALIVE - this is TORTURE.
It's not our RIGHT as humans.
It is not "part of the food chain".
It's suffering. Torture. Pain for our gain.
THAT is NOT "serving a purpose".
It is us - enslaving it and torturing it.
We are COMPLETELY disassociated with what we eat.
This is a problem.
We see a cow as a cow. And we see a burger as a burger.
The two are seperated.
Now I know I still have SO MUCH to learn about this - about the politics of meat, the devastating effects factory farming has on our environment, the ACCEPTED INSENSITIVITY for our ANIMALS who own this PLANET JUST AS MUCH, IF NOT MORE THAN US.
And sadly, this insensitivity is instilled INTO US SINCE BIRTH.
Personally, I don't think ANYONE will ever fully grasp how big it is.
But we have a SIMPLE CHOICE:
Eat animals - Or don't.

We have to learn that there is NO SUCH THING as "meat".

"Meat" is a dead animal, packaged up in a pretty pink bow.
"Meat" is a manufactured word - manufactored by people who want to manufactor animals and hush the SCREAMS of the animals burning in tight-fitting cages.
"Meat" is a made up "IDEA" that SUFFERING is merely a part of the food chain, something we are dependent on, a STAPLE to a healthy diet.
"Meat" is a nicer way of saying "Dead Animal" - a more appetizing way of saying "Freshly slaughtered", a polite way of describing a friendly and peaceful creature who was gutted, skinned and bled to death.
Meat is 3 million animals killed EVERY SINGLE HOUR OF EVERY SINGLE DAY SEVEN DAYS A WEEK SO THEY CAN GIVE US PLEASURE.
So we can have our Barbecues.
So we can sprinkle chicken on our caesar salads.
So we can microwave chicken pot pies and say "Oh my...I REALLY like this recipe...how did you get the meat so tender - it just SLIDES right off the bone!!.." - "oh...I soak it in oil and slow cook it for 8 hours."
Animals are NOT ours to take, capture, torture, starve or eat.
Rabbits, animals, dogs, cats, ducks, chickens, turkeys, cows, pigs, buffalo, shark, fish, salmon, are sandwich filler, frozen dinners, processed lunch meat, concentration camp VICTIMS.
Cramped, dirty, bleeding, infected and INSANE with FURIOUS RAGE and HELPLESSNESS from what we do to them - what we ARE doing to them right now.
Sound familiar? Sound ridiculous? Sound absurd?

Women, jews, gays, blacks - we were ALL there and we STILL haven't fucking recovered.

"What next?" writer Thomas Taylor asked in A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, "Equal rights for LOWLY animals?"

Well, Mr. Taylor - YES.

Exactly that. Except they were NEVER "lowly".

They were only ever beautiful. And WE made them our slaves.

It's THEIR TURN FOR A REAL SHOT AT LIBERATION.

PLEASE

STOP

EATING

MEAT.