A call for systemic change -- a recap of the 2025 Conference for Animal Liberation in Copenhagen

https://manueluberti.eu/posts/2025-09-04-calc/

#calc #animalliberation #antispeciesism #antispe

Interesting and insightful seminar today in Lund University, hosted by the Department of Critical animal studies.

The subject of the seminar was based on the new book by academic Chiara Stefanoni "The human and the meat". Here's a link for the book:

https://www.adlibris.com/sv/bok/the-human-and-the-meat-9783837679571

Description of the book:

"Over 85 billion animals are killed in slaughterhouses annually to sustain a profit-driven meat production system - devastating animals, workers, and the environment. How did we get here? How has capitalist society reshaped human-animal relations? Elaborating a novel materialist and intersectional framework, Chiara Stefanoni conceptualizes the social form of human-animal relations and its centrality within the interconnected structure of domination in capitalist societies, especially in relation to gender and class. Through a historical analysis of industrial slaughterhouses, the study reveals how the human/animal divide and meat-based diet are not timeless facts, but concrete social solutions crucial for the reproduction of capitalist society."

#criticalanimalstudies #Lund #Lunduniversity #antispeciesism #anticapitalism #speciesism #capitalism

*Comparing PURINA vs. Veggie animals catfoods**

First image: Purina's hypoallergenic cat food which is 99% vegan. It "only" contains fish oil in the table of contents.

If we go deeper though we will find pork fat too. Would a cat ever eat a pig? Nope! Even my cat's vet yesterday said "animal fat can harm her".

The next two images are the ingredients of a new cat food, made in Spain, by the company Veggie animals. Wonderful cruelty free ingredients.

If we compare the two brands, what's given from the fish oil in the Purina one can be found as omega 3 and 6 acids in the Veggie animals one. By not giving fish oil, we also protect them from heavy metals and other toxins that are sadly accumulated in our fish friends little bodies due to human pollution that's destroying the seas and slowly killing all Marine life.

The last image is a screenshot of what a Finnish vet specialised in cats wrote to me last week.

If what we want is hydrolyzed protein - and this is found in the plant based option, along with so many other ingredients that help cats with IBD, then, why on Earth would anyone select the animal based cat food?

The vet yesterday recommended hydrolised soy protein over hydrolyzed Animal based protein.

I showed her the ingredients of the Veggie animals catfood and she approved it.

Did I call the food vegan or plant based? No.
Would it make a difference if I had done so? I believe it would.

People feel fear and negativity against whatever follows the V-word and this is highly problematic. It shows the prejudice against veganism.

What can we do about it?

#vegancatfood #vegancat #veganism #antispeciesism #crueltyfree #catfood

Why is beekeeping unethical?

https://ethosandempathy.org/en/2021/05/25/why-is-beekeeping-unethical/

#bees #honey #beekeeping #beekeeper #unethical #letbeesbe #antispeciesism #veganism #insectsmatter

💥Announcement! Friday 13.02.2026💥

🎬 Film evening on animal use 🎥

Friday, 13.02.2026 | 6 p.m. | Zollgarage, Columbiadamm 10, 12101 Berlin

Arrival: U6, Bus 248, M43 Platz der Luftbrücke

📣 Call: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=15486 - @potse_berlin

#b1302 #antispeciesism

Movie screening in Zollgarage
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Topic: animal rights, production of animal products
„After watching the movie you will be vegan“

🚨 Triggerwarning: explicit depiction of violence against animals, terrible conditions in the production of animal products
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For free
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Join us and bring your friends

"I got a disease the other day and I was going to go to the doctor until I realised its the circle of life and death and decomposition is a natural part of the food chain. It would be ridiculous to go and stop all disease in nature that would be bad for the environment because it would cause overpopulation. So I'm going to do the natural and sustainable thing and let myself die"

This is how a lot of carnists sound.

Life and death of other animals is in our hands, and we have a unique responsibility to wield that power with care and selflessness

"
>This is the way things are.
You can't change nature.

>Change *is* nature dad, the part that *we* can influence - and it starts when we decide
" - Ratatouille, 2007

#Veganism #Vegan #Speciesism #Antispeciesism #Carnism #HumanSupremacy

L'expression "vegan for the animals" est un pléonasme.

#antispécisme #antispeciesism #végane #vegan #végan (à la limite 😅)

et tant qu'on y est : #végé c'est pour #végétarisme