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just wondering... Critical and speculative animated essays. Exploring antispeciesism, posthumanism, social and environmental justice.

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Screenshot from https://www.pcrm.org/news/news-releases/swapping-animal-products-plant-based-foods-no-matter-how-processed-leads-weight ‘Swapping Animal Products for Plant-Based Foods-No Matter How Processed-Leads to Weight Loss, Finds New Study’

Plant Based for the win - again 🌱🦾 #WeightLoss

[new study is an important reminder that #PlantBased foods that are considered PROCESSED -
ie canned beans, cereal, & veggie burgers, are actually part of a healthy diet that can help fight diet-related chronic diseases]
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Another blow to the ridiculous “vegans are weak” argument…

Photo of pigs confined in a transport truck on their way to the slaughterhouse. Two of them are lying on a bed of wood shavings, one of them looking directly into the camera and the third one is looking out.

As long as existence is reduced to property and the screams of the victims are dismissed as meaningless before the fabricated needs of the powerful, so too will violence and oppression continue to be solidified as the norm.

Such a lovely picture. 🖤

Never caught anything from any other species. And I’ve hand fed squirrels and pigeons ”all over the world”.

From humans, tho…..

A close up photo of the excrement strewn face of a young cow individual who has been tightly tethered with a rope around their face to the metal bars of the enclosure where they are incarcerated.

Those who fight for justice for us victims of the most violent oppression, with all the incalculable suffering that entails, instead of being met with serious consideration, are met across the political spectrum with hate, slander, ridicule & woefully specious arguments.

We are #OneBillionScreams

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Love this. 😂

Straying home A film essay with urban animals

Either deliberately, or in ignorance, you presented a lie. That viewpoint is exclusionary, reductionist & anthropocentric. If you’re interested in other ways to look at our coexistence with other inhabitants of this shared world, here’s a good place to start.

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A young female chicken looks out from the tiny, filthy, metal cage in which she is imprisoned. In the foreground is an egg.

Imagine a world where the vulnerable, the defenceless, those who are unable to organise & fight back are eternally force bred into an entire existence of interminable, merciless cruelty & unimaginable suffering.

This is not a fictional dystopia.

That’s my entire world.

We are #OneBillionScreams

Me too 🖤

Pigeons can carry diseases, but they’re not significantly more of a disease vector than other animals. Risks of contracting a disease from pigeons is low compared to other animals. Many diseases associated with them are rare. But that doesn’t fit in with your “Pest Control Professional” agenda eh?

Hoje de manhã tinha uma rolinha presa nessas redes na janela do vizinho da frente. Felizmente, ela conseguiu se soltar.

There is no right way to do the wrong things HowDoIGoVegan.com

The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals | Megan Mayhew Bergman Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive

Great piece!

"Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive..."
~Megan Mayhew Bergman

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‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ for Palestinians squeezed into the remaining 42% of their land behind Israel’s ‘yellow line’

"‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on."

"The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ for Palestinians squeezed into the remaining 42% of their land."

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A pigeon under a bridge, flapping their wings, attempts to escape the netting they are trapped behind.

In a world where you humans have decided that your species alone is allowed to own land, us other co-inhabitants of what are & in fact have always been, multi-species landscapes, will be viewed as intruders, as surplus, as problems & hence with disdain.

We are #OneBillionScreams

Thank you. 🙏🖤👊

just wondering... Critical and speculative animated essays. Exploring antispeciesism, posthumanism, social and environmental justice.

2/2

Graphic from, just wondering...
@justwonderingyt

justwondering.io

Fantastic, informative, insightful, innovative, inspiring work being done by Just Wondering. Check them out.

Black and white text on a lik background. Text reads: “[ … ] goodbye to the hierarchical order, the order of profit, capitalist and humanist, the order of race, of gender, of species. Let there be disorder. “

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Fuck your hegemonic norms.
Fuck your violent traditions.
Fuck your aspirational consumer culture & empty, visionless pursuit of eternal economic growth.
Fuck your perpetual rapacious predation of the earth’s inhabitants & resources to feed your insatiable appetites for self gratification.

A young pig individual who is being ejected from a stunning chamber in a slaughterhouse, screams in terror as a worker grabs his ear to pull him from the chamber to cut his throat.

Resistance to oppression is a moral imperative. In our eyes, in our voices, in our actions, you will witness the challenge to your vile oppression. We struggle, we try to escape, we rage against your tyranny. We are political animals, ignored for your comfort & convenience.

#OneBillionScreams

Sharath Prabhu (@sharzard5.bsky.social): "Heads swirling with the fumes of ammonia, we shriek in this artificially lit hell. We are political animals who resist. We are not ghosts. We are #OneBillionScreams. We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social"

A close up photo of the head of a confined, female ‘dairy’ cow bleeding heavily from her head after having had her horns cruelly cut away.

Although congratulating yourselves on being paragons of rationality & virtue, you humans have premised & built your whole ‘civilisation’, your entire modus operandi upon perpetual, indefensible extreme violence; upon “terror without end” (Adorno).

We are #OneBillionScreams

Read this. Reflect on it. Act ⚖️

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Challenge22.com
Veganuary.com

Four ‘stunned’ young cow individuals lie on the blood stained metal grate floor of an Australian slaughterhouse after being tipped out of the ‘knockbox’. A worker operating a chain winch is about to string each one upside down by a back leg to slash their throats and kill them.

If to be normal is to participate in interminable violence towards those who just happen to have not been born human, which is to abandon ethics, morality, & our claims to humanity, then there exists an urgent moral imperative to create a new normal.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A young, still conscious cow individual who is bleeding from the head after being shot with a bolt gun, lies on the blood stained metal grate floor of an Australian slaughterhouse.

Social norms, even extremely violent ones, are regarded simply as “how it is” & thereby allow themselves to remain unquestioned. Demonstrating that they lack moral/dialectic justification is threatening to those who benefit from them, so they resist attempts to deconstruct them.

A very young, male, “dairy” calf is being grabbed around the neck by a farm worker who is throwing him backwards into a crowded slaughterhouse truck.

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To be “normal” is too often to obsequiously and unthinkingly accept things as they are, no matter how violent & inhuman. It is to remain detached, uncritical, and obedient to the prevailing system of inequality, tyrannical injustice and incalculable suffering.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A young, wide eyed, terrified young pig individual looks through the metal bars of a holding pen in a slaughterhouse at the murdered bodies of two other pigs, lying on the blood stained floor. A worker is just visible next to the murdered pigs.

Selectively, you nurture your connection to some animal individuals & tell yourself you’re an animal lover, whilst simultaneously engaging in rituals of desensitisation to psychologically distance yourself from us other animals whom you condemn to sickening violence & death.

#OneBillionScreams

#Veganism