#WildlifeServices an agency within the US Department of Agriculture (#USDA), kills over a million wild #animals each year, largely for the farmed #AnimalIndustry, by horrendous means such as #poisoning, #CyanideBombs, neck #snares and even being shot from an airplane.
In fact, a whopping 36.5% of the agency’s activities were done to “protect #agriculture including #livestock, row #crops, #aquaculture, and #timber “, and a large portion of their $286 million budget
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"The Right’s ‘Natural’ Meat Obsession Is a Regressive Fantasy" by @sentientmedia
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Another component for Kennedy of what constitutes “natural” is taking on things like red food dye, seed oils and ultra-processed foods — while promoting tallow, raw milk and grass-fed beef.
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https://sentientmedia.org/mahas-natural-foods-obsession/
Vegans often are faced with fallacious arguments, and one of the most common is the Naturalistic fallacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
However, this is often a bad faith disguise. The use of naturalistic fallacies in these contexts, such as the claim that consuming animals is "good" because it's natural, is a disguise for another more insidious fallacy: the traditionalist fallacy or "appeal to tradition".
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition
The traditionalist fallacy is, in this context, the argument that "consuming animals is good because we've done it for thousands of years".
Traditionalism is heavily political, as the people are finding out again in places such as the US. It's sometimes known as "paleoconservatism", and it should be no surprise that the popularity of the "paleo diet" culturally connects to this.
Conservatives, ever since the rise of modernity (end of 'traditional' society, end of monarchism and feudalism) have been trying to reinvent the past through pseudointellectual and pseudoscientific efforts. This has been at the heart of incredible amounts of suffering and horror since then. I have some notes on that on my pinned thread: https://veganism.social/deck/@veganpizza69/110813538364525265
Bullshit & snake oil are not vegan.
#MAHA #meat #grassFed #animalIndustry #CAFO #intensivization #extensivization #sustainability #fascism #ecofascism #conservatism #traditionalism #paleoconservatism #paleo #paleodiet #traditions #tradwife #pseudoscience #scam #antivaccine #antivaxx #grifters #sustainability #snakeoil
"Judge in Brazil orders slaughterhouses to pay for Amazon reforestation"
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A judge in the Brazilian state of Rondonia has found two beef slaughterhouses guilty of buying cattle from a protected area of former rainforest in the Amazon and ordered them, along with three cattle ranchers, to pay a total of $764,000 for causing environmental damage, according to the decision issued Wednesday. Cattle raising drives Amazon deforestation. The companies Distriboi and Frigon and the ranchers may appeal.
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#meatIndustry #Amazon #deforestation #beef #ranching #grazing #animalIndustry #JBS #ecocide
A court in the Brazilian state of Rondonia has found two beef slaughterhouses guilty of buying cattle out of what is supposed to be a protected area in the Brazilian Amazon, which is illegal. Raising cattle on protected land is a major source of deforestation. The companies Distriboi and Irmãos Gonçalves were convicted to pay compensation for environmental damages. They can appeal the decision.
Think Like a Vegan: What are zoonotic diseases and how do they affect us and other animals?
"Maybe you think about Covid 19. How about HIV-AIDS? Is your impression that zoonotic illnesses are something relatively new? Or uncommon?
In this episode, I'll explore just how far back in time zoonotic illnesses go and think about how our entanglement with other animals affects us -- and them -- on a cellular level"
When you hear the term zoonotic disease, what does it mean to you? What do you think of and who is responsible for them? Maybe you think about Covid 19. How about HIV-AIDS? Is your impression that zoonotic illnesses are something relatively new? Or uncommon? In this episode, I'll explore just how far back in time zoonotic illnesses go and think about how our entanglement with other animals affects us -- and them -- on a cellular level Website/Socials Emi Leese https://emilialeese.substack.com http://thinklikeavegan.com http://emilialeese.com @emi.leese or @thinklikeavegan, Instagram, Facebook, X and Threads Credits Host: Emilia A. Leese Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com Music Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business Interlude: "Pinglie" by Matthew Gerstenberger; Seismicity on Soundcloud https://on.soundcloud.com/3Pf8g Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business This podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com
Disinformation From The Animal Agriculture Industry
https://faunalytics.org/disinformation-from-the-animal-agriculture-industry/
#animalIndustry #disinformation #misinformation #propaganda #meatsplaining #BigAg #climate #welfare #agribusiness
"Meat industry greenwashing has a new weapon: University scientists"
A long article, I'm not going to extract quotes, it's worth reading.
#BigMeat #BigDairy #animalIndustry #misinformation #disinformation #industryFunding #greenwashing #climate #climateChange #ghgs #profitability #sustainability #corporateFunding #corporateResearch #industryResearch #Mitloehner #ClearCenter #farming #farmers
"Avian flu outbreak spreads to new species in Australia"
https://au.news.yahoo.com/avian-flu-outbreak-spreads-to-new-species-in-australia-013155587.html
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Six farms have now been infected across one state, impacting the supply of some supermarket products.
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Won't someone think of the precious supply of Daffy?
Another news item on this:
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-06-13/bird-flu-hits-australian-duck-farm
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Neither strain is the H5N1 type that has infected billions of wild and farmed animals globally, upsetting food supply chains and raising fears of human transmission.
"Tests have confirmed the high pathogenicity H7N3 strain at a commercial duck farm," Victoria's agriculture department said in a statement on Thursday.
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The animal industry and its consumers are working hard to unleash novel pandemics without the use of labs.
#HPAI #avianInfluenza #birdFlu #animalIndustry #ducks #birds #Australia #animalBased #zoonosis #panzootic #epizootic
"The Suffering Behind ‘Humane,’ Organic Milk"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/alexandre-farms-treatment-of-animals/677980/
An article in "The Atlantic" that actually goes after the #humaneWashing going on in the cow farming sector.
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Cow 13039, the auction affidavit showed, came from one of the country’s preeminent dairy farms: Alexandre Family Farm, a nationwide supplier to stores including Whole Foods. Alexandre cows are pasture-raised, and the operation is validated by California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF), Certified Humane, and the Regenerative Organic Alliance. Its owners, Blake and Stephanie Alexandre, won the Organic Farmer of the Year award a few years back and have been profiled by The New York Times. For $8, you can buy about a third of a gallon of its top-shelf milk.
The Alexandres sold dozens of grievously ill and injured cows at auction over the past four years, according to a sprawling whistleblower report published by the nonprofit advocacy group Farm Forward. On the farm, the report charges, mismanagement led to “the extreme suffering of hundreds of cows.” One whistleblower contacted the local sheriff and the United States Department of Agriculture, among other organizations, to report animal-welfare violations, but without results. The report is based on hundreds of location- and date-tagged photographs and videos collected over a four-year period by people who worked either with or for Alexandre Family Farm, as well as on affidavits, veterinary reports, and interviews.
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When I met Cow 13039, a dying animal sold to the highest bidder, I thought that the system had failed her. But in reporting this story, I found something far more disconcerting. No system had failed her, because there was no system to protect her in the first place.
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The only difference between extensive animal farming (which is seen as more humane) and intensive animal farming (which is seen as inhumane) is INTENSITY. They are not distinct systems, but the same system on different levels of intensity. And the purpose of that intensity is money.
Aside from the bullshit of humanewashing, it's important to note that extensive animal farming is by no means "nice" to the animals. Let's just say that you can have very small CAFOs. Backyard CAFOs, traditional ones. And a lot of brutality can be low-tech, based on manual labor, as is often the case in the sector (*those* jobs). Nor is staying out exposed to weather, bugs, and predators "nice". They'll find out soon enough the limits of being outside as the climate gets more interesting.
What we're really talking about is the pastoralist fantasies of and for carnists who simultaneously want to feel better --- about themselves --- and want to get the highest "quality" animal products, because they follow bourgeois tradition and animal products are a luxury, some of the first forms of commodity fetishism (see my pinned thread).
Thus the welfarists will always fail and will always be in the service of animal farmers and against the interests of non-human animals. Eventually, the "welfare" pretense will drop, probably when the prices get higher and people get poorer and demand *any* animal products and no longer care about "humane", even if they get some inferiority complex for it and privately desire to access luxury "humane organic regenerative PURE" animal products. The business will always have priority and all these standards are rarely testable in the final chunk of cooked flesh or bowl of egg mixture or slice of congealed milk fat.
So let's not waste time with welfarism and "stepping stones" that lead to nowhere.
#animalIndustry #dairy #milk #cows #greenwashing #humane #marketing
"Caught out: Cameras on boats reveal massive under-reporting of wildlife deaths"
CW: photos of dead animals
Going to post this link first to avoid the preview image: https://fishfeel.org/
Because the story is still about welfarism and glosses over the fact that fish are being trapped and killed.
The article is overall about the predictable disinformation and regulatory capture efforts that the fishing sector gets into, along with its friends in power. This story is similar to the ones about getting footage from farms and slaughterhouses. They don't like it when they can't get away with lying.
#animalMeat #animalIndustry #fishing #biosphere #biodiversity #extinction #meatMafia
The US seems to be building up to a rerun of the Spanish Flu (which started in the US). Thank animal farmers and consumers!
"H5N1 bird flu found at 3 more dairy farms in Michigan and New Mexico, raising the total to 20" https://twitter.com/bnofeed/status/1777819290982334561?t=8DwKhFTiBLBR0mpRkTX8WQ
#avianInfluenza #birdFlu #dairy #cow #milk #zoonosis #influenza #h5n1 #animalIndustry
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