Earthlings
"earth’ling: n. One who inhabits of the earth."
"Since we all inhabit the earth, all of us are considered earthlings. There is no sexism, no racism or speciesism in the term earthling. It encompasses each and every one of us: warm or cold blooded, mammal, vertebrate or invertebrate, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, and human alike."
Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote in his bestselling novel "Enemies, A Love Story" the following:
“As often has Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right”.
***"Ignorance is the speciesist's first line of defense. Yet it is easily breached by anyone with the time and determination to find out the truth. Ignorance has prevailed so long only because people do not want to find out the truth. "Don't tell me, you'll spoil my dinner" is the usual reply to any attempt to tell someone just how that dinner was produced. Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests that their clothes come from slaughtered cows, that their entertainment means the suffering and death of millions of animals... and that some questionable experiments go on in laboratories, still cling to a vague belief that conditions cannot be too bad, or else the government or the animal welfare societies would have done something about it. But it is not the inability to find out what is going on as much as a desire not to know about acts that may lie heavy on one's conscience that is responsible for this lack of awareness - after all, the victims of whatever it is that goes on in all these awful places are not members of one's own group. It all comes down to pain and suffering." ***
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358456/
Don't go telling me you're an animal lover and can still eat meat after watching this. Don't say you love all kinds alike if after that you enter a fast-food restaurant. Words mean nothing if you refuse to face the truth. Stop hanging onto your IGNORANCE just for the sake of your own "clean" conscience.
I cried throughout the whole movie. We, human, indeed are the most detestable and callous of all earthlings.
"Since we all inhabit the earth, all of us are considered earthlings. There is no sexism, no racism or speciesism in the term earthling. It encompasses each and every one of us: warm or cold blooded, mammal, vertebrate or invertebrate, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, and human alike."
Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote in his bestselling novel "Enemies, A Love Story" the following:
“As often has Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right”.
***"Ignorance is the speciesist's first line of defense. Yet it is easily breached by anyone with the time and determination to find out the truth. Ignorance has prevailed so long only because people do not want to find out the truth. "Don't tell me, you'll spoil my dinner" is the usual reply to any attempt to tell someone just how that dinner was produced. Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests that their clothes come from slaughtered cows, that their entertainment means the suffering and death of millions of animals... and that some questionable experiments go on in laboratories, still cling to a vague belief that conditions cannot be too bad, or else the government or the animal welfare societies would have done something about it. But it is not the inability to find out what is going on as much as a desire not to know about acts that may lie heavy on one's conscience that is responsible for this lack of awareness - after all, the victims of whatever it is that goes on in all these awful places are not members of one's own group. It all comes down to pain and suffering." ***
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358456/
Don't go telling me you're an animal lover and can still eat meat after watching this. Don't say you love all kinds alike if after that you enter a fast-food restaurant. Words mean nothing if you refuse to face the truth. Stop hanging onto your IGNORANCE just for the sake of your own "clean" conscience.
I cried throughout the whole movie. We, human, indeed are the most detestable and callous of all earthlings.
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