They are a few fries short of a happy meal if they think humans are incapable of helping species other than ourselves, or that it is not even worth the time. Human rights always matter, but so do the well being of the animals we make our sonas out of.
It's good advice. I avoid eating fast food as much as possible for this reason, and refrain from buying Tyson animal products as often as I can. I've seen the trucks they carry chickens on. It's depressing.
Imagine Furries being more preoccupied about looking good rather than doing the right thing.
To the best of my knowledge the vast majority of cons still have a featured/sponsored charity, and have animal charities as their chosen charities. I think a portion of the human rights awareness bits going around fandom recently has been a long way coming, in that certain demographics to some degree may have been pushed into the shadows by just... subconscious social inertia? Combine that with the divisiveness of the last ~4 years of US politics, and the general western trend of white supremacists inching their way into mainstream, and it’s reasonable that a tipping point would be reached where the elephant in the room needs to be called out. It becomes a bit of “put on your own oxygen mask before helping others put theirs on.” We don’t need the fandom to be a utopia of relations between races/sexualities/identities/etc before we can reach out to help animals, far from. But mending bridges amongst ourselves may help us to, jointly, make a greater impact (and not destroy ourselves in the process).
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The stupid thing is so many animals are shown to be almost as intelligent as humans, missing only a few key factors to make them self-aware like us. So pretty much most humans think they're inferior because they can't talk...
Turns out a lot of that was made-up bullshit left over from Abrahamic creationism. Even "self-awareness" is such a nebulous concept with a flexible definition that can be conveniently teased to exclude whatever species the speaker wants to justify maltreatment of.
Yeah. It has been proven that whales, dolphins, and the like can also suffer mental illnesses. It's why seaworld ended up as such a sucky place as well. I'm not sure how they didn't know it at that point. I know someone who knew the person
Stories like this just reaffirm my antitheism.
I have so many stories it's just ridiculous, and even I'm a Christian.
Depends on what animal and where the location is. And the food source that people will like to live on.
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I don't think animal rights falls under politics. I don't see meerkats popping out of holes with red or blue flags.
Yes it is, it has been politicized, even if the idea fundamentally isn't. Otherwise, "red and blue" flags wouldn't be popping up when you get into a debate about whether or not you enjoy eating meat, and using movements to get congress to change laws, aside from just the consumption of meat products. It is political, whether you like it or not. Anything with [ ] RIGHTS! is political.
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Everything is politicized. Politics is inescapable. Frankly, trying to enforce a "no politics" rule is futile, but that's not what this thread is about. It's about a cause that should be getting more attention from furries especially.
