Voice of Dissent

I’m vegan for a number of reasons, the main one being that I don’t believe animals deserve to be held captive, tortured and/or killed anymore than I believe humans do. Animals are sentient beings who experience fear and feel pain just as real as any human. After all, humans are merely animals.
As a [...]

Top Daily Mail Article - Tory says date rape might just be a ‘disagreement’ between lovers
“Date rape should be treated differently from attacks on women by strangers, John Redwood has said.
The former cabinet minister - now a senior Tory party adviser - suggested rape accusations made by women against their partners should be treated as [...]

What is Animal Rights?

March 5th, 2008

Ask people to name an animal rights organization and a great majority of them will probably name PETA. However, those of us who are abolitionists know that PETA is pretty damn far from being an animal right organization. What most people don’t know is that there are actually two kinds of people in [...]

QFE - Quoted for Emphasis

March 5th, 2008

Postmodern Feminism and Animal Welfare: Perfect Together - A great article comparing the postmodern feminist’s “happy commodification” of women to the animal welfarists “happy meat”.

I’ve never been your typical girl. Always good in math but shit in english, a girl gammer and, once I hit my adult years, a girl programmer. I know I’ve already broken “Feminist Rule #1″ by calling myself a girl but I actually like the term. Girl. Grrrl. I find it [...]

Walmart Evalia

March 5th, 2008

I know it’s nothing new to bitch about the evils of walmart but I just have to bitch for a while on the walmart worshiper.
The first claim is always “if you were poor you would understand, some people have no other options.”. Well, I call you on your bullshit! I don’t work due [...]

So, I overheard a conversation the other day about dog and cock fighting. My father-in-law says that they’re both so horrible and doesn’t understand how anyone could condone either. I immediately thought to myself that this is such a hypocritical thing for him to say since he eats chicken. Anyone who has [...]