Palm Oil, Human Rights, and Politics are Vegan Issues ~ Dr. Roger Yates - Animal Rights Zone2024-03-29T04:40:41Zhttp://arzone.ning.com/forum/topics/palm-oil-human-rights-and-politics-are-vegan-issues-dr-roger-yate?feed=yes&xn_auth=noWhat a wonderful and thoughtf…tag:arzone.ning.com,2013-09-28:4715978:Comment:1400712013-09-28T09:30:30.496ZVeroniquehttp://arzone.ning.com/profile/Veronique
<p>What a wonderful and thoughtful article, Roger, to which I heartily agree with. If Veganism stopped at just the diet aspect, we have a term for it, it's called Pure Vegetarianism (devoid of animal products but that ends there). Veganism is and always has been a human rights, a women's rights, and other right's issue as well. Everything is connected. The consumption of Palm Oil kills Orang Utans. The link to animal rights issues is clear. And it also destroys lives which makes it a human…</p>
<p>What a wonderful and thoughtful article, Roger, to which I heartily agree with. If Veganism stopped at just the diet aspect, we have a term for it, it's called Pure Vegetarianism (devoid of animal products but that ends there). Veganism is and always has been a human rights, a women's rights, and other right's issue as well. Everything is connected. The consumption of Palm Oil kills Orang Utans. The link to animal rights issues is clear. And it also destroys lives which makes it a human rights issue. I can't distinguish between social issues as some people in the Vegan movement seem to want to do. That is why, for instance, I have a big problem with PETA doing sexist campaigns and cheapening two causes: animal rights and women's rights. </p>
<p>If Veganism, as Donald Watson clearly stated, is about reducing suffering, we have a clear obligation to take all the issues seriously whether they concern non-human animals or human animals. The Earth is not made of separate biological entities which don't affect each other. Science (and spirituality) shows that everything is in fact influencing all the parts. What happens with our consumption of Palm Oil will eventually have a ripple effect on us and not just other animals. </p>
<p>Thank you for this great article. </p> I think we have an obligation…tag:arzone.ning.com,2013-09-28:4715978:Comment:1400682013-09-28T02:34:44.986Zveganpilotmartyhttp://arzone.ning.com/profile/veganpilotmarty
I think we have an obligation to mitigate suffering wherever we can but we as vegans sometimes lose sight of the big picture today. I love the idea of focusing our concern on a smaller segment of veganismic ideals, (ah, a new word perhaps), but today is today and not 200 years in the future. Lets get people to do the easier stuff, like not eating the animals, and we can worry about the suffering levels of the different non animal/non animal product/non animal processes foods down the road.
I think we have an obligation to mitigate suffering wherever we can but we as vegans sometimes lose sight of the big picture today. I love the idea of focusing our concern on a smaller segment of veganismic ideals, (ah, a new word perhaps), but today is today and not 200 years in the future. Lets get people to do the easier stuff, like not eating the animals, and we can worry about the suffering levels of the different non animal/non animal product/non animal processes foods down the road.