The radical option
What if I told you that I knew a way you could oppose unspeakable animal cruelty, stand up for exploited human workers, help address a human health holocaust, work to reduce the profits and control of the 1%, surrender the hierarchical privilege of speciesism, and do your part to defend the eco-system before it's too late?
What if I added that this choice also addresses deforestation, topsoil depletion, overfishing, water pollution, rapid species extinction, the proliferation of GMOs in our food supply, and so much more?
What if I then informed you that you could do all this 24 hours a day and still have plenty of time for many other forms of protest and dissent?
As an activist -- a revolutionary, even -- I'd imagine you'd be practically drooling. Right?
Well, the first step is simple: Renounce (by word and deed) an industry that confines, breeds, tortures, and murders 53 billion land animals per year; an industry that consumes and destroys one-third of the planet's land surface; an industry that is the number one source of human-created greenhouse gases and thus, climate change.
Translation: Renounce speciesism and renounce your counterproductive, cruel, and reactionary bacon fetish.
Are you still with me, comrades, or am I again "pushing" my "lifestyle" on all you poor, oppressed, misunderstood radicals?
Which side are you on?
For the ten-thousandth time: The system we're challenging is built, in a major way, on the exploitation of non-human animals and the eco-system. It's all connected within a culture constructed on the premise of unlimited growth and it must all remain connected within any movement claiming to aim for holistic justice.
If you're already working to dismantle corporate power, expand freedoms, and create a safer, more sane culture, you already have plenty in common with animal rights activists. Why not take things even further and recognize that the mighty 99% also includes non-human animals -- and the entire ecosystem itself?
That's what an "activist" would do"
News Flash: Challenging ecocide/working to preserve the future is not a lifestyle; it's a compassionate and revolutionary choice. It's also an urgent mission that requires you (activists, radicals, progressives, occupiers, etc.) to decide now:Which side are you on?
Reprinted from worldnewstrust.com
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