All Discussions Tagged 'cows' - Animal Rights Zone2024-03-28T13:00:27Zhttp://arzone.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=cows&feed=yes&xn_auth=noARZone Interview 91 ~ Matt Ball Respondstag:arzone.ning.com,2017-07-22:4715978:Topic:1642012017-07-22T00:31:46.613ZAnimal Rights Zonehttp://arzone.ning.com/profile/admin
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Episode 91 features long time advocate, Matt Ball.<br></br><br></br></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Matt has been a globally recognised advocate for other animals, for vegetarian diets and for applied ethics for over two decades. He has presented at, and written for diverse forums over the past two decades. Matt has written dozens of essays,…</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-4">Episode 91 features long time advocate, Matt Ball.<br/><br/></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Matt has been a globally recognised advocate for other animals, for vegetarian diets and for applied ethics for over two decades. He has presented at, and written for diverse forums over the past two decades. Matt has written dozens of essays, articles, editorials and book chapters, and is the co-author (with Bruce Friedrich) of The Animal Activist’s Handbook (2007) and in 2014 he published The Accidental Activist.<br/><br/></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Matt is currently President and co-founder of One Step for Animals.<br/><br/></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Matt joins us today to respond to the reaction to that Vox video, to speak about One Step, and to answer some difficult questions in general. <br/><br/></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">To listen to this interview, please click <span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/ARZoneInterview91MattBall" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000;">HERE</span></a></span> or use the player below.<br/><br/></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">To watch the VOX video that we discuss, please see below. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"></p> Banning Live Exports - Who Really Benefits and Who Suffers?tag:arzone.ning.com,2016-06-17:4715978:Topic:1577032016-06-17T10:01:57.737ZAnimal Rights Zonehttp://arzone.ning.com/profile/admin
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><span>There is a petition circulating at the moment from Animals Australia asking that we help them to “protect animals including cattle, sheep and goats from the cruelty of live export” by signing yet another petition to the Prime Minister of Australia. Their petition goes on to say that:<br/> <br/></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Every day that live export continues is another day of suffering for animals … a step onto a live export ship can lead to a most cruel and brutal fate. Investigations by Animals Australia over the past decade have repeatedly exposed systemic cruelty to Australian animals exported live. Millions of cattle, sheep and goats have endured long sea journeys, often only to face shocking abuse and fully conscious slaughter in countries with no effective animal welfare laws in place”. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><br/><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3038405754?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3038405754?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-right"/></a>Putting aside the fact that Animals Australia use industry terms such as “cattle” to describe individuals who deserve far more respect from their advocates, Animals Australia could easily be describing the transport of the same individuals within Australia. Cows, sheep and goats experience all of these atrocities every day when they are transported within Australia by truck or train from one state to another. In the middle of summer in particular, these journeys involve unbelievable torture and “cruelty” and they end in the same way, with a similarly brutal fate – facing “shocking abuse and fully conscious slaughter in a country (Australia) with no effective welfare laws in place” – if one was concerned with the “welfare” of another individual, one would not be supporting the brutal death, dismemberment and eating of their body for trivial reasons. <br/> <br/> This campaign also stirs up racial hatred. Most Australians seem to be against live export because they're horrified that "those people" treat "our cows" in terrible ways. Most of these Australians aren't aware that there are about fifteen (at my last count) slaughterhouses in Australia that do not stun Australian animals before they're slaughtered - they have exemptions for ritual slaughter. The average non-halal “Standard Australian slaughterhouse” - which requires that these individuals be stunned before slaughter - also kill many cows whilst fully conscious. Around 250 cows are killed every hour in Australian slaughterhouses, where the workers are under constant pressure to keep up the speed of the dis-assembly line. As a result of this, and the inherently imprecise nature of the captive bolt gun, many cows are still fully conscious in “standard” Australian slaughterhouses as their bodies are ripped to pieces. (many other Australian cows are stunned but wake up as they're being ripped to pieces). And for this we have a sense of moral superiority for the way we kill “our animals”. <br/> <br/> Animals Australia and their supporters don’t offer any viable alternative to sending other animals overseas to be slaughtered that significantly benefit the individuals who continue to be born and bred to be eaten. In many cases, if Australia stops sending live animals to some countries, they will source live animals elsewhere – quite likely countries that are further away, increasing the “torture” that other animals will endure. If we’re concerned about “Aussie cows”, surely we ought to be as concerned for cows who happen to have been born elsewhere. <br/> <br/> <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3038408698?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3038408698?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-right"/></a>Last time there was a temporary ban placed on live export by the federal government the cows who were in line to be sent overseas suffered unimaginably because no-one would take responsibility for their welfare and they were left to starve. With no viable alternatives in place, and with Australian slaughterhouses not equipped to slaughter the breed of cow who are sent overseas, what does the future hold for the Brahman cows who, in their thousands, have been born into this industry? <br/> <br/> In regard to refrigeration issues, estimates of Indonesian (a major importer of Australian cows) households who have available refrigeration *range up to* 60%, which means it must also be true that *at least* 40% of Indonesian households do not have any access to refrigeration, almost certainly more. It seems that "performing whiteness" may be taking place when we suggest that Indonesia ought to accept the frozen bodies of "our" cows rather than their live bodies, given that almost half of their population will therefore be excluded. <br/> <br/> <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3038411105?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3038411105?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-right"/></a>The animal agriculture industry is an horrific industry. It’s an industry built on objectification, suffering, death and the rights violations of both humans and other animals. Whenever we use others as resources, we will treat them accordingly. The live export industry is a part of the animal agriculture industry, and ought to be reviled and rebelled against. But let’s not forget that it’s the animal agriculture industry that we ought to reject, not just one part of it that allows us to feel morally superior to other races and religions around the world as we continue to participate in the death and torture of “our cows” who we allow ourselves to believe are somehow respected more and suffer less if they’re slaughtered “at home”</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"></p> Getting [green?] Beef ~ Matthew Coletag:arzone.ning.com,2013-06-07:4715978:Topic:1306952013-06-07T01:29:08.158ZCarolyn Baileyhttp://arzone.ning.com/profile/CarolynBailey
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><br/>Abstract:</span></span></strong></span> <span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"> </span><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Advocates of veganism frequently present their case holistically, outlining its benefits for</span> <span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">nonhuman and human animals and for our shared environment. However, a consistent feature of </span><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">‘mainstream’ public discourse on veganism is the tendency to fracture that holistic case. In </span><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">particular, the case for nonhuman animal liberation tends to be set aside, so as to clear the path</span> <span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">for a reassertion of anthropocentric values that, despite otherwise radical appearances, work to</span> <span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">re-entrench speciesist privilege. In this paper, I present a detailed case study of one high-profile </span><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">example of this process. In October 2008, the prestigious UK periodical, The Ecologist, published</span> <span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">an issue that focused on the issue of ‘meat’-eating. The contributing authors to the issue stressed</span> <span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">the anthropocentric benefits of a particular form of ‘meat’-eating, while simultaneously failing to</span> <span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">confront the holistic case for veganism.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">New footage <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-29/ludwig-defends-live-export-regime/3859372">recently aired on ABC</a> has again brought to our attention the plight of cattle in Indonesian abattoirs. Scenes of cattle being poked, stabbed, and slaughtered without appropriate equipment has again caused emotional distress and moral outrage. In some cases it even seems that some cattle are being cut-up while still vocalising: while they are still alive, sentient, and in pain.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">What is curious is the repeated use of the term “Australian cattle”. We appear to be particularly concerned about whether the cattle are Australian!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">There is good reason for this. The live cattle trade with Indonesia was reinitiated on the basis that our Australian cattle would be assured of better treatment. As Australians we were collectively upset by the idea that we sent live cattle overseas to be brutalised at abattoirs unrestricted by our own animal welfare standards.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">In response to the recent footage, the Federal Department of Agriculture is now investigating whether the cattle are Australian and if the slaughterhouses are part of its approved abattoir system. The new footage has implications for the assurances provided to Australians that our cattle would be slaughtered using processes that are more aligned with our moral conscience.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Still, what remains interesting is the moral outrage of Australians about the treatment of Australian cattle. What of the Indonesian cattle, or cattle imported from other parts of the planet? Why are we so concerned that the brutality we see is not happening to our own cattle?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">I would suggest there are three reasons for this. All three reveal some interesting insights into self-serving biases evident in our ethical reasoning.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">First, the moral outrage of Australians is focused on Australian cattle because we have direct responsibility for their export. That is, we are sending them to these abattoirs and therefore feel a sense of responsibility for what happens to them. Put another way, we feel that what is happening to these cattle is somewhat within our control.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">On the surface this seems reasonable. It does suggest, however, that we are mostly outraged over the fact that we have been implicated in this heinous treatment of animals. That is, we are upset that our hands appear to be dirty.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">This may be true to some extent, but it does not capture what appears to be really upsetting people. What triggers our emotional response to this footage is seeing the brutalisation of a living sentient creature capable of feeling pain. We are morally outraged that sentient creatures should be harmed in these ways.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">This brings us to the second reason we may be especially interested in Australian cattle. It’s just too damn hard to be concerned for all cattle everywhere: it’s just overwhelming. We are mostly interested in Australian cattle because we feel capable of doing something to help them. That is, our moral outrage is largely directed by our own perceived capacity to achieve change.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">This makes sense. Why not focus our moral outrage on things that we feel we have some control over? It also indicates, however, that our ethical reasoning is largely shaped by our own need to feel in control of negative outcomes. Indonesian cattle are outside of our control and therefore we are less focused on their brutalisation.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Perhaps being concerned over things we have no capacity to change is just too disturbing?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">There may, however, be another reason that we are especially concerned for Australian cows. We are concerned simply because they are <em>our</em> cows. Social psychologists have studied this phenomenon for the past 40 years in humans. People allocate more resources to their own groups, view their own groups more positively and are more likely to help their own group members. Indeed people even view members of their own groups as possessing more “human” qualities – qualities which make them more morally worthy and of greater moral concern.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Perhaps these same processes apply to animals. When they are our animals we see them differently: we are more concerned about their welfare and more likely to respond to their needs.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">While all three of these biases suggest our ethical reasoning may be far from objective, they also suggest that animals (at least sometimes) may be subject to the same biases in moral thinking as are other humans. This is perhaps encouraging for animals to some degree.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Psychologising these issues indeed does little for the current plight of animals in Indonesian abattoirs. Gaining insight into how we think about and care for animals does, however, have a range of broader implications. The psychological processes that allow us to overlook the harm brought to animals are the same as those that allow us to overlook harm brought to other humans.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Concern for animal welfare appears to be on the rise. This is a good thing. Expanding our moral circle to include animals not only benefits them, it also means that circle is more likely to include other humans who are different from us.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Still, it does not take much for our moral circle to quickly retract. Economic hard times and limited resources for survival achieve this particularly well: a factor that we should pay close attention to before judging the extent of care and concern paid to animals by those who have fewer resources than ourselves.</span></p>
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