/r/StopSpeciesism

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A place to share content and discuss ways to end speciesism — the unjustified disadvantageous consideration or treatment

of those who are not classified as belonging to a certain species.

We believe ending speciesism should be a moral priority for humanity.

So what is the alternative to traditional anthropocentric ethics? Antispeciesism is not the claim that "All Animals Are Equal", or that all species are of equal value, or that a human or a pig is equivalent to a mosquito. Rather the antispeciesist claims that, other things being equal, equally strong interests should count equally.

— David Pearce, “The Antispeciesist Revolution

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My first vegan song. I tried to keep the lyrics abstract so it wouldn't get too dark although it's still the saddest lyrics I’ve written, but the instrumentals themselves get pretty upbeat after the intro.

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2024/09/23
22:37 UTC

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Is is speciesist to say that humans are the real monsters of the world?

I wrote this in a vegan subreddit but I realise it might be better to ask this here.

I'm working on lyrics for a song, and I'm wondering if it's okay to call humans the "real monsters" of this world. The word "monster" is usually used in stories to refer to fictional animals who are dangerous predators, but usually there's the strong connotation (or sometimes it's said explicitly) that these animals are "bad" or "evil". So by saying that humans are the "real monsters" of this world, I'm saying they are the ones who are actually evil (because of their immoral choices towards other animals).

BUT imagine if there was a term like "monsters" but for a fictional race of evil humans. Let's refer to this term as the H-word (hopefully that's not an already-established euphemism). If people did come up with the H-word for fictional races of evil humans, clearly this would be based on racism. And if I were making an anti-racism song, saying that "the real H-words are colonisers", I'm pretty sure we can agree that this would wrong even if it was well-intended.

I would like to hear what other people think please. Instinctively, it feels right to say that humans are the real monsters, but this hypothetical scenario of the H-word makes me think that I should just ditch trying to use the term "real monster". As I'm writing this, I'm almost convincing myself not to use that term.

EDIT: this is not supposed to be activism or convince nonvegans to stop enslaving animals, it's more along the lines of cathartic art for myself.

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2024/09/09
01:20 UTC

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Video I Made Advocating For a More Philosophically Robust Definition of Veganism

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2024/07/24
10:12 UTC

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Escape, Resistance and Solidarity - Farmed Animal Sanctuaries as the Heart of the Movement

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2024/06/28
15:45 UTC

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Is there such a thing as an anti-speciesism flag?

Like when you are in LGBTQ+ Community or are supportive, you can use the progress-pride flag. Is there such a thing for anti-speciesism, to make clearly visible for other people for what we are standing for?

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2024/06/14
18:43 UTC

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Good Review

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2024/02/14
11:54 UTC

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Whole Foods Scandal, Björk & Rosalía's Protest Song Against Icelandic Fish Farm | Month in a Minute

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2023/10/31
12:59 UTC

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EU Drops Animal Welfare, Elon Musk's Neuralink Controversy & more | Month in a Minute

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2023/10/03
11:59 UTC

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Performance of mine and Kirk Nelson’s song, “Speciesism”

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2023/10/02
22:19 UTC

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I'm BEGGING y'all to spread this news

An animal sanctuary in Italy got infected with ASF (the african swine fev) and to protect livestocks' profits the government decided to kill all the pigs who lived in the sanctuary. people and activists gathered in fron of the sanctuary to keep the executors out of its perimeter, but after weeks of pacific defence the police decided to show up and use force to enter. the activists were hit with clubs, some of them were left injured on the ground. the same happened with other activists inside the sanctuary. the pigs who were still alive in spit of the ASF were killed, as well as the ones who were still healthy. all of this just to protect lunches and dinners of all those people who still eat animal products. there were negotiations in act to try to at least protect the animals that were still healthy and a court date was set but they didn't wait for it (we don't know why yet). of course most newspapers and tv shows won't cover the news, all we have for now it's Instagram's lives and videos from the people who were resisting outside the sanctuary. we really need help to spread the news outside of our own social medias cause it's the first time something like this happen and it could become a terrible example for future alike cases.

7 Comments
2023/09/20
11:32 UTC

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I Finally Understand Speciesism and Now I Can't Sleep

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2023/09/17
11:20 UTC

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Peter Singer: "I’m co-organizing a two-day conference aimed at broadening the concerns of AI ethics to include both nonhuman animals and potential conscious machines. Join us at Princeton, either in person or virtually, on October 6 & 7 to explore these neglected aspects of AI ethics."

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2023/09/14
14:41 UTC

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The vegan blindspot ("Nature" does not always mean "good")

https://youtu.be/EVi4jYySIv4 Vegan Campout 2023 (UK) presentation

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2023/08/07
06:58 UTC

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