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Swimming Against Ignorance and Cruelty – VEGAN VOICES writer Mary Finelli

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Next in our series on the writers of “VEGAN VOICES –  Essays by Inspiring Changemakers”, we introduce you to MARY FINELLI.  Mary is the founder and president of Fish Feel, the first organization focused on promoting the recognition of fishes as sentient beings deserving of respect and compassion.  Mary also chairs the Save the Rays Coalition.  She has a BS in animal science and has been active in animal rights advocacy since the mid-1980s.  Mary has worked with various animal protection organizations, primarily focusing on farmed animals.  She produced Farmed Animal Watch, a weekly online news digest sponsored by numerous animal protection organizations, and co-wrote a chapter of In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave.

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“Such organisations as the Smithsonian Institution and the American Veterinary Medical Association have recognised that fishes can experience pain, and there is a growing public realization that fishes do indeed suffer fear and pain and are admirable beings who deserve respect, compassion and moral consideration.  

As ethologist Jonathan Balcombe, author of the very informative book ‘What A Fish Knows’ points out: “fish have personalities, they plan, recognise, remember, court, parent, innovate, manipulate, collaborate, communicate with gestures, keep accounts,  deduce, deceive, show virtue, form attachments, have traditions, fall for optical illusions, get depressed, use tools, learn by observation and form mental maps.”

– Mary Finelli

 

 

 

 

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Will Birds Sing Or Will They Be Silent? – VEGAN VOICES writer Karen Davis PhD

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Next in our series on the writers of “VEGAN VOICES –  Essays by Inspiring Changemakers”, we introduce you to KAREN DAVIS, PhD.  Karen is the president and founder of United Poultry Concerns https://www.upc-online.org/, a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl and operates a sanctuary for chickens in Virginia.  Having been inducted into the National Animal Rights Hall of Fame “for outstanding contributions to animal liberation,” Karen is the author of numerous books, essays, articles, and campaigns.  Her latest book is For the Birds: From Exploitation to Liberation: Essays on Chickens, Turkeys, and Other Domesticated Fowl (Lantern, 2019)

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“Something I learned about chickens when I started knowing them decades ago is how vocally charged they are from morning to night.   All day long, I hear their voices outside, ringing and singing…

By contrast, if you open the door of a Tyson or Perdue chicken house after the newborns have been there for a week or so, you will not hear a peep or a rustle.  If you enter a facility where hens have been caged for eggs for a few months, the sound of silence will strike you more forcibly than commotion.

Of all the indicators of their suffering, the sound of thousands of chickens together, mute and unmoving, is the eeriest, most audible signal that something is wrong”.

– Karen Davis

 

 

 

 

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‘Might Does Not Make Right’ – VEGAN VOICES writer Katina Czyczelis

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In our series on the writers of “VEGAN VOICES –  Essays by Inspiring Changemakers”, we introduce you to KATINA CZYCZELIS.   Graduating from the University of Adelaide with a First Class Honours Bachelor of Law degree Katina practiced as a barrister and solicitor until she gave the law up to have a family.  She later graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Music Performance degree, performing, teaching, and writing about her instrument.  She is currently employed as a general manager in the hospitality industry.  Being a vegan of many years, and through speaking out and writing, Katina has dedicated herself to the life, freedom, and happiness of all animals on Earth. 

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 “Being vegan goes beyond just what we put into our stomachs.  It extends to a rejection of the whole paradigm of using other living beings for our own selfish purposes.  It extends to a recognition of what we are actually doing to other sentient beings. What makes it absolutely criminal is that we do these things to nonhuman beings not because we have to but simply because we can, and we choose not to end it”.

– Katina Czyczelis

 

 

 

 

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‘It’s Our Choice’ – VEGAN VOICES writer Emily Moran Barwick

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In our series on the writers of “VEGAN VOICES –  Essays by Inspiring Changemakers”, we introduce you to EMILY MORAN BARWICK (https://bitesizevegan.org/).  From authoring essays on the experiences of children in the foster care system at six, to educating door-to-door about endangered species at seven, Emily’s advocacy and activism took root at a very early age. After completing her Master of Fine Arts, Emily founded Bite Size Vegan, providing free resources and information on issues impacting health, our planet, society, and the lives of sentient beings. Communication has never come easily to Emily – an Autistic – but she credits her Autism for her deep and empathetic connection with nonhuman animals, and believes by seeing the world differently, she’s better able to help others begin to think differently.

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“We campaign for regulations and wait over a decade for the smallest advances when all the while there is another option entirely.  One that we don’t have to manipulate our values to justify. One that we don’t have to couch in euphemisms or bury beneath dense legislation. One that allows us to finally align our actions with our values.

You have a choice. You decide whether you want to continue to have others kill for you. You decide whether you want to continue consuming death, terror, and heartbreak – whitewashed as humane.  You decide. My hope is you’ll decide to go vegan.”

– Emily Moran Barwick

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‘Dogs for Dinner’ – VEGAN VOICES writer Laura Barlow

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In our series on the writers of “VEGAN VOICES –  Essays by Inspiring Changemakers”, we introduce you to LAURA BARLOW (http://veganawareness.org/about_us0.aspx).  Laura developed a passion for nature and animals at a young age. She spends her free time volunteering, running a nonprofit organization and taking care of her two rescue dogs. Her purpose in this world is to spread a message of love and compassion toward nature, animals, and humanity. Laura holds both a Master of Fine Arts and a Master of Education degree from Rhode Island College. She is certified in plant-based nutrition and pet therapy. Laura is a performing arts teacher in Providence, and currently resides in Warwick, Rhode Island. 

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“Throughout the years I have watched many videos and films that show cruelty to animals. Despite being difficult to watch, these films are necessary. In recent years, a great deal of attention has been focused on dog meat farms. Dogs on meat farms are crammed into tiny, filthy cages.  These dogs may be killed by electrocution, blunt force, hanging, or even by being boiled alive. My heart breaks when I see these images and videos. The dogs look broken and hopeless, and their eyes reveal a life of pain and suffering. In their eyes, I see all animals whose suffering is for human consumption and profit. All of these animals experience pain, suffering, and fear. They all quiver before their death. The truth is that all animals want to live.”

– Laura Barlow

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The Healing Revolution – VEGAN VOICES author Victoria Moran

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In our series on  the writers of “VEGAN VOICES –  Essays by Inspiring Changemakers”, we introduce you to VICTORIA MORAN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Moran.  Victoria is listed among VegNews magazine’s “Top 10 Living Vegetarian Authors” and voted PETA’s “Sexiest Vegan Over 50” in 2016.  She has written thirteen books, including The Love-Powered Diet, Main Street Vegan, and the international bestseller Creating a Charmed Life. She hosts the award-winning Main Street Vegan Podcast, produced the 2019 documentary A Prayer for Compassion, and is director of Main Street Vegan Academy, training vegan lifestyle coaches and educators. Victoria wrote the Foreword for VEGAN VOICES, and the title of her essay  is “Veganism, Yoga, and Me.” 

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“The cessation of human-caused misery in the animal world would be the most profound event in the ethical history of this planet. It would affect chickens, turkeys, and geese; pigs, cows, sheep, and goats; and myriad kinds of fishes.  It would liberate hunted animals, fur-bearers, and those wild beings whose rangeland humans claim for grazing cattle.  The cages in laboratories would empty and their inmates – rats and mice, rabbits and guinea pigs, cats and dogs, and nonhuman primates – would no longer be subject to pain and death for someone else’s knowledge, someone else’s funding.  Entertainment that enslaves animals would be universally deemed barbaric and would end without fanfare.  And no more “pets” would be chained, ignored, abused or abandoned.  As this healing revolution sweeps across nations, people could tackle remaining problems with renewed vigor.”

– Victoria Moran

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A Revolution of the Heart – VEGAN VOICES editor Dr Joanne Kong

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 In the first of our series introducing you to the writers from “VEGAN VOICES – Essays By Inspiring Changemakers”, we look at the editor,  Dr. Joanne Kong.  Joanne has been recognized as one of the most compelling advocates for plant-sourced nutrition today. A frequent public speaker at universities, festivals, and conferences, her highly praised TEDx talk, “The Power of Plant-Based Eating,” is on numerous websites. She has toured extensively—in Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, and a three-week, ten-city tour of India—speaking on veganism. She is the author of If You’ve Ever Loved an Animal, Go Vegan (self-published), and is profiled in the book Legends of Change, about vegan women who are reshaping the world.

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“Veganism is a revolution of the heart, a call for a world of greater peace, health and harmony created through expanding our circles of compassion.   

Veganism reflects a paradigm shift whereby one has begun to seriously question the underpinnings of a culture that has brought more and more harm to other beings, the natural world, and ourselves.”

– Joanne Kong

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‘I Am Covid’ – Poem by Lynley Tulloch

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In this striking poem by End Animal Slaughter contributor Dr Lynley Tulloch, she answers the question ‘Who is the virus?’.

 

Dr Lynley Tulloch is an animal rights activist and writer, and has a PhD in sustainability education and ecocentric philosophy.

 

I am Covid 

I am a viper in the nest 

A spiky and unwelcome guest.  

I am a storm that will always burst 

A looming cloud doing her worst. 

I am the hatred that you see 

The poison that exudes from me. 

I am a mirror to your soul 

When death is on a roll. 

I am a chameleon to the sorrow 

The mud in which I wallow. 

*

There is no difference 

Don’t you see 

In the entity that is You and Me

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You are the viper in the nest 

Not allowing Earth to rest. 

You are the storm looming wild 

You steal from the future child. 

You are the hatred that you fear 

Acting as if you do not care. 

You are the mirror to your soul 

Death is your mortal goal. 

You are a chameleon to the assault 

Keeping your secrets in a vault.  

*

There is no difference  

Don’t you see 

In the entity that is You and Me

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We are the virus that never leaves 

A spider that forever weaves. 

We are the flies caught in the webs 

Tearing life to shreds. 

We infiltrate Life’s very breath 

Growing on the cusp of death. 

Expanding ‘til there is no more 

Of life, of Earth, and of the shore. 

No more to share with the child 

Who yet still lives part in the wild.  

*

There is no difference 

Don’t you see 

In the entity that is You and Me.

 

 

Why aren’t more vets vegan?

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While veterinary students have subtle pressures on them to turn a blind eye to production animals’ suffering and emotional needs, there are signs that change is beginning to happen.   If more veterinary schools took the approach that all animals have the same capacity to feel pain and emotions, and all animals deserve the same level of care, that would change the next generation of veterinarians.

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Wayne Hsiung: A Future When We Love All Animals

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This article is by Wayne Hsiung, American attorney and animal rights activist (co-founder of  co-founder of the animal rights network Direct Action Everywhere (DxE).   It has been reprinted from Wayne’s blog page https://simpleheart.substack.com/

 

We are having a funeral for Lisa today. And while I expect it to be healing, it won’t be easy. I’ve written about this loss on two occasions now. And about my broader perspective on the meaning of grief.

What I’ve not said, however, is why we are having a funeral at all. I’ve only been to one other funeral for an individual non-human animal, that of my other beloved dog Natalie. And, to some, the concept of a funeral for a dog might seem odd or even a little silly. But Lisa’s loss weighs so heavily on us; the rite of a funeral will hopefully give me and Priya peace. More importantly, funerals are not just about those who grieve. They are about the importance of those we have lost. And in that sense, having a funeral for Lisa is not just a personal but a political act. It’s meant to say that her life had value, and should be treated with the same dignity and respect as we give to members of our own species.

But to understand this, I thought it would be interesting to dive a little more deeply into the history of funeral ceremonies. And it turns out that history is a long one. The oldest intentional burial in the historical record occurred at Qafzeh, Israel, over 100,000 years ago. Fifteen modern humans were found in a burial site, with 71 pieces of red ocher and ocher-stained stone tools, suggesting there was some ritual associated with their burial. Perhaps even more interesting is the burial site of a human child 78,000 years ago in Africa. The child, whose body was analyzed extensively using forensic tools and microscopes, was apparently laid down in a fetal position, and perhaps covered with a shroud and given a pillow. Those who buried her wanted her to feel peace and love even in death. To me, this shows that remembering the dead is part of who we are.

This is partly because human beings were hardly human 100,000 years ago; the fact that we had funerals suggests their deep connection to our basic identity as a species. One hundred thousand years ago, language, if it existed at all, was brand new to the scene. (The renowned linguist Noam Chomsky says that a chance mutation gave us the ability to speak exactly 100,000 years ago.) Neanderthals were still at our side, and would not go extinct for another 60,000 years. And wooly mammoths would still be around for 95,000 years. It’s hard to even comprehend how long ago this was (even though it’s still just a blip in the history of life on earth, which goes back a remarkable 4,500,000,000 years). Yet even in these remarkably different times, perhaps before we even had language, we were honoring our dead. That deep history seems important.

But the funeral rite also seems tied to our basic humanity because of the conceptual importance of death in our species. The Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert has argued that imagining the future is what makes humans unique on the planet Earth. (He is probably wrong about this, as this angry-but-well-prepared rock-throwing chimp has shown.) When we developed that capability, we also conceived of death for the first time, that empty endless space of the unknown. We are not, as a species, particularly good at handling uncertain fears; uncertainty is an emotional amplifier that makes even small risks seem terrifying. And so it’s not surprising to me that funerals have existed for 100,000+ years. They are, it seems to me, our species’ attempt to reckon with death, and therefore also with the sanctity of life.

That brings me back to the central point. If funerals have been part of our species, for as long as we have been on this earth, then performing funerals for other animals is a way to show that they, too, are part of our history, both individually and as a species. It is also a way to show that our understanding of the importance of death extends to our animal friends. And by honoring the one individual before us, we problematize the brutal slaughter of billions of others.

Traditionally, we slaughter these unknown masses without even individually recognizing the being who is about to die. This is most notable in instances of mass slaughter, such as ventilation shutdown. To the industry, it is not even recognized as death; it’s just clearing out the unneeded inventory.

Extending the funeral rite to animals shows that we can evolve beyond this. It shows that our species has the ability to overcome self-interest, and express love and care for an individual of another species who no longer has anything to offer us in return. This is, in many ways, our real super power as a species: our ability to empathize with, and therefore form kinship with, even those who are very different from us. The funeral elevates this idea.

I don’t know what the human beings of ancient Africa, or Israel, thought exactly of the ones they buried. But the respect given to the dead shows they had love for those they lost. And I hope, when we remember the funeral that unfolds today in Berkeley, that is what people will say about Lisa and her family.

You may not have known her, at least the way we do, but you will see that she loved, and was loved. And by doing so, perhaps you will see a future where we love all animals.