A global icon for justice takes the lead, and speaks out against humanity’s brutality to animals
Published 27 October 2024
The movement for justice for animals has conceptualized a new vocabulary including:
shadow colonialism * reclaiming human-animal relations * collective liberation
post humanism * shared existence * Black veganism
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Facilitated by Dr Sharyn Spicer and the Department of Sociology, the Human Animal Project drew student enthusiasts striving for a world where animals can claim society’s respect, consideration and humanity. Published 10 October 2024
Guest speaker, American social justice advocate Yvette Baker, said her mother had been a catalyst in her activism.
Her mother had once told her:
“I know what it is like to be overlooked, and that my life doesn’t matter, and I would never want to inflict that pain on anyone else.”​
Drawing an analogy between ‘white supremacy’, the ‘Me too Movement’, and factory farming, Baker said the commodification of animals reflected the ‘blueprint of colonial control’.
The branding, abuse and whip-cracking that had underpinned the slave trade, was perpetuated today in the form of factory farming.
Christopher Eubanks, founder and director of the animal rights organization, APEX Advocacy, said he had been jarred into grass-roots animal advocacy when he saw footage of animals being killed in an abattoir. The brutality reminded him of the footage he had seen as a 9-year-old, of Rodney King being assaulted, almost to death, by police officers who had wanted to subdue him.​ Eubanks told the audience:
“I realized then, that animal suffering is something I pay for. Each animal product purchased, supported and paid towards the infliction of horrendous pain and suffering."​
​Eubanks said that the abuse of women extended to factory farmed animals where through taxes and purchasing power, ordinary people paid for cows, for example, to be artificially inseminated, and for their off-spring to be snatched from them, so that we benefit from their milk.
He added that people of colour were disproportionately impacted by factory farming and slaughter-houses, both of which were manned by disadvantaged people on the margins of society.
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Guest speaker at the Human Animal Project, Chris Eubanks said:
I don’t eat animals,
I don’t wear animals,
I don’t use products tested on animals; animals are not ours to use.​​
New report predicts the closure of thousands of abattoirs around the world within 10 years
According to a new report just released, most people will likely be eating plant-based food instead of meat within the next decade.
Titled Grains of Truth, the report is authored by GlobeScan, a global insights and advisory consultancy, and EAT, a science-based non-profit for global food system transformation. It states that one in five people globally (22%) are now eating plant-based/ vegan food, a leap up from 17% in 2019.
Said Chris Coulter, CEO of GlobeScan: “Plant-based diets are on the rise in all regions of the world, and consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the link between climate change and food choices.”
If the roots of violence are deeply embedded in our treatment of non-humans, then there is no better place to start, in remedying the scourge.
Many students at the University of the Western Cape were in agreement today when Louise van der Merwe gave a presentation to commemorate the United Nations International Day of non-Violence.​
Published 02 October 2024
Louise and Dr Sharyn Spicer, Department of Sociology at the University of the Western Cape.
Keanu Parkins, an Honours student in Sociology, is focusing on Animals, Society and Environment. He said: “The fact is that animals play a vital part in our lives and they deserve better from us.”
Achieving a kinder world with the support of students at the University of the Western Cape
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Amidst all the turmoil and angst in the world, this issue focuses on the good that is happening, as much for the animals as ourselves.
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