From: ra-AT-alor.univ-montp3.fr (Ronald Creagh, Moderator, Research on Anarchism List)
Date: 26 Jan 1997 12:18:01 UTC   (08:18:01 AM in author's locale)
To: RA-L-AT-bred.univ-montp3.fr

>From: James Corrigan <james-AT-ibix.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 97 14:54:55 -0500
The best analysis of the relations of humans to nonhumans in the form of
institutionalized exploitation, especially the use of nonhumans for food, and
the impact that our (USA) current laws have on them, is a book written by
Professor Gary Francione of Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey. The
title of the book is "Animals, Property, and the Law". In the forward to the
book, written by William M. Kunstler, is the following statement:
"If we are speciesist and feel that we may exploit nonhumans simply
because we are more powerful, and we judge that we will benefit from that
exploitation, then discrimination against other disadvantaged groups becomes
that much easier."
Personally, I believe that changing one's diet is the most radical action that
an individual can take. I haven't eaten anyone's child in over fifteen years,
and have been a vegan for over five years. More to the point though, I do not
participate in the exploitive meat industry with its concomitant environmental
destruction, nor do I sit on top of the food chain consuming concentrated
poisons, hormones, anti-biotics, and pathogens that are a direct result of the
"new world order" of transnational factory farming. It's a win-win situation.
James Corrigan

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