"Non-human animals waste water/land/resources" is still human supremacist and speciesist framing that classes non humans as resources not individuals. When there's "too many" humans we don't say they waste resources; their life and individual experience is intrinsically valuable and I shouldn't need to explain why mass human killing or forced sterilization isnt a "solution" to overpopulation

Generally vegans would say that eating plant based would cause flesh farmers to breed less non human animals into existence and so its not the same as being responsible for the death of "overpopulated" species and that would be fine by itself but the mindset of treating too many non-human animals as a problem whos solution is always "reduce their population" and human overpopulation as potentially having other solutions is speciesist and risks promoting human supremacist eugenicism

#Vegan #Speciesism #Carnism #ClimateCrisis #Eugenicism #Overpopulation #HumanSupremacy

John Harris on the dangerous and anachronistic views on disability that are so deeply entrenched in western culture.

Virginia Woolf, John M Keynes, so many others whom we admire for their work: they all were part of that dark trait in our history.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/20/learning-disabled-people-book-winterbourne-view

#disability #ableism #eugenicism #JohnHarris #eachofusisonestepawayfromdisability #standupforeveryhumanbeing #KindnessWillPrevail

Again and again, we are shocked by the treatment of learning-disabled people. Yet we never learn from the past

A landmark book exposes the history of loathing that underpins scandals like Winterbourne View. It has received next to no attention, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian