tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post3452431285006374010..comments2024-03-22T19:52:46.571+00:00Comments on SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK: The 'Cowspiracy' ConspiracyPoetry Coalshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514953133244910986noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-91368611706234233282015-12-13T08:39:15.446+00:002015-12-13T08:39:15.446+00:00OK, a tad. No offence intended! But we are talking...OK, a tad. No offence intended! But we are talking about animal slavery versus animal liberation. Where is the "middle way" there? "Ahimsa" -- harmlessness -- is the deciding factor, surely.<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-17261692839294946902015-12-13T01:08:35.666+00:002015-12-13T01:08:35.666+00:00I think you may be a tad bit unfair on Vandana Shi...I think you may be a tad bit unfair on Vandana Shiva. She is, i think, a very strident supporter of animal welfare but seeks the "middle way". <br />"The consumer drives the food chain. The focus is on the suppliers, but they can't change faster than the public demands." Vandana Shivaajohnstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-70280119875268700362015-12-13T00:38:28.202+00:002015-12-13T00:38:28.202+00:00Taking animals out of agriculture doesn't mean...Taking animals out of agriculture doesn't mean no animals. It means no more animal slavery and murder. Has Vandana Shiva never heard the phrase "Animal Liberation"? Ecologists so-called like V. Shiva are no friends to socialism or animal rights. They simply study the way species interact; animals in agriculture are captives in a prison -- one without riots perhaps but still a prison. We humans, like them, actually have no real ownership or control over our own selves. What we call free will is just going along with the strongest force within us at that moment. The idea of members of one species having rights to own, control or otherwise dispose of members of another would be quite ludicrous if historically the results had not been been so tragic for the countless sentient beings and whole species that have been subjected to unspeakable cruelty and suffering and/or obliterated in the name of supposedly God-given or Darwinian human superiority -- ideals surely without foundation in the materialist philosophy of the SPGB.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com