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Why Animal Liberation Activists Must Join the Peace Movement

 

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Top 10 Reasons Animal Liberation Activists Must Join the Peace Movement

Links to Information on the Impact of War on Animals & the Environment

DOs and DON¹Ts for Animal Lib Activists Working for Peace

**BONUS** Top Five Reasons for Animal Lovers to Oppose the Bush Regime

 

by

pattrice le-muire jones

February 2003

 

 

 

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Here are the top ten reasons why animal liberation activists must join the

peace movement:

 

10. Because war and animal exploitation are two expressions of the same

cultural orientation toward domination rather than cooperation.

 

9. Because we believe that human and non-human animals deserve the same

compassion and respect and therefore we must care about the human children

who will be terrified, killed, injured, displaced, and orphaned by war.

 

8. Because peace activists are compassionate people who might over time be

convinced to extend their compassion to non-human animals.

 

7. Because wartime constraints on civil liberties have already and will

continue to jeopardize our ability to advocate for animals.

 

6. Because, if we ever wish to gain the support of a critical mass of

people, the animal liberation movement cannot afford to remain estranged

from social justice movements.

 

5. Because the United States military practices vivisection on a massive

scale, testing conventional, chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons on

animals.

 

4. Because military attacks on urban spaces terrify, kill, injure, displace,

and bereave companion animals.

 

3. Because military attacks on rural locations terrify, kill, and bereave

farmed animals.

 

2. Because bombs and biological weapons destroy habitats and poison the

environment upon which all animals depend for sustenance.

 

1. Because bullets, bombs, and biological weapons don¹t distinguish between

human and non-human animals.

 

Here are some links concerning the impact of war on animals:

 

Animal victims of the 1991 gulf war

http://fn2.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca/~puppydog/gulfwar.htm

 

Environmental impact of 1991 gulf war

http://www.commonsentience.com/Gulf91.html

 

Animal victims of U.S. military war games

http://www.peta.org/feat/wargames/

http://www.peta-online.org/liv/animaltimes/a199/war.html

 

Weapons testing on animals

http://www.iridescent-publishing.com/rtm/ch5p9.htm

http://www.peta.org/feat/military

 

Impact of war on environment

http://www.islandpress.org/eco-compass/war/index.html

http://www.ems.org/war/risks.html

 

 

Here are a few helpful tips for animal liberation activists working within

the peace movement:

 

DO mention non-human animals when discussing the innocents who will be hurt

in the course of warfare.

 

DON¹T forget to include humans when discussing the innocents who will be

hurt in the course of warfare.

 

DO make yourself useful so that you will eventually be regarded as a trusted

ally.

 

DON¹T try to introduce your agenda to an organization until you have won

that trust.

 

DO refer to your own veganism as an expression of peace.

 

DON¹T expect people to immediately see the connection and change their diets

overnight.

 

DO understand that working in coalition means you will not agree on every

point.

 

DON¹T even try to do this if you are currently so (justifiably) angry at

people that you cannot work with those who do not share your views.

 

DO remember that change is a process and that other animal advocates are

with you in spirit even when you feel very alone.

 

DO what you can and trust that others are doing the same.

 

**BONUS**

Top five reasons for animal activists to oppose the Bush regime

 

1. Because the Bush regime considers animal liberation activists to be

terrorists.

 

2. Because the Bush regime strongly supports biotechnology, including

genetic engineering of farmed animals.

 

3. Because the Bush regime strongly supports the pharmaceutical,

biochemical, and agribusiness corporations that exploit animals for profit.

 

4. Because the Bush regime strongly supports factory farming and is working

hard to force U.S. meat and dairy products into foreign markets.

 

5. Because the foreign policy of the Bush regime, which includes preemptive

strikes on other countries and possible ³tactical² use of nuclear weapons,

threatens to plunge the world into a world war that will bring unspeakable

suffering to countless human and non-human animals.

 

@ (anti-copyright) pattrice le-muire jones

Eastern Shore Chicken Sanctuary

pattrice

http://www.bravebirds.org