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Jason commented on the article |In case anyone is reading this from New South Wales, Australia:
* Please report animal cruelty in rural areas to Animal Lib NSW on 1800 751 770.
* Please report cruetly to animals in schools or research institutions to me at Jason.Grossman@anu.edu.au, and/or to the Department of Primary Industries Animal Welfare Branch.
* Please report cruelty to exhibited animals (in circuses, zoos etc.) to the Department of Primary Industries Animal Welfare Branch.
* I'm not sure where you should report other cases of cruelty. Probably to the RSPCA. -
Jason commented on the article |I quoted part of this on the LiveJournal vegan community, and there's some ensuing discussion: http://community.livejournal.com/veganpeople/3341316.html?view=54247684#t54247684
I can't summarise the discussion because it's ongoing! -
Jason commented on the article |Thanks for posting this, Stephanie. You are my blog hero.
"I care less about philosophy than the fact that we should avoid being demonstrably cruel by endorsing factory farming and the slaughtering of cattle."
But that IS philosophy! -
Jason commented on the article |Great post.
So "Social change occurs on an incremental pathway", does it, Mr Pacelle? I recently came across this great quote by Martin Luther King, the message of which I think the animal movement needs to take to heart:
"I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to `order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: `I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action'; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a `more convenient season.'
... I had ... hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: `An [sic] Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in too great a religious hurry. It has taken Christianity almost two thousand years to accomplish what it has. The teachings of Christ take time to come to earth.' Such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely rational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively."
Martin Luther King, letter from Birmingham Jail, 16/4/1963: http://www.futureofthebook.org/letterfrombirminghamjail/gravely-disappointed-with-the-white-moderate -
Jason commented on the article |I'm pleased to say that an Australian has gone to jail for letting his cows starve. See http://therural.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/warning-issued-neglect-is-a-nono/813394.aspx. He was successfully prosecuted under both cruelty to animals legislation and animal research legislation (the latter because he was taking blood from the cows for research).
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