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ZimZalabim is a from England, UK.

Choose Archive Page Truth never fears honest debate & time spent with cats is never wasted. Please be aware that much of this blog (but not all) does not make for particularly happy reading. However its main purpose is to help inform rather than entertain. If you're feeling a bit down or would rather keep your head in the sand, you might want to go elsewhere. On the other hand, if you understand the gravity of the current global eco-political-social situation and its implications for the future, or would like to, then please stick around - like never before this planet is in the most dire need of an informed citizenry.

& Like the Little Satans We Are: Jul 28, 4:02pm (2 reviews) activism, ethics http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE?p=...; Like the Little Satans We Are "We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." - William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922 [ftp] Self-delusional and mentally masturbatory as it may be, we human animals invest insane amounts of energy into maintaining our perverse illusion that we are separate from the "natural world" and possess an omnipotence that enables us to bend the forces of nature to our wills. We mercilessly and thoughtlessly abuse, exploit, and slaughter commodified non-human animals [by the billions] simply to amplify our personal pleasure and fatten our wallets. Despite the slow and choppy moral progress we've made in how we treat our fellow human animals, we are still acculturated to view non-human animals as enslaved property or lesser beings, unworthy of the basic rights to life, freedom, and protection from torture. Occasionally, "civilized people" stumble upon an undercover PETA video that exposes factory farms for the Auschwitzes they are, cringe in horror, and decry the [truly] shocking cruelty. Yet an hour later many of those same "born again empathizers" have no problem grabbing a burger from McMurderers, the principal catalyst for the emergence of the factory farm system. "The question is not, `Can they reason?' nor, `Can they talk?' but rather, `Can they suffer?'" - Jeremy Bentham, social reformer