On Violence

Dear Colleagues:

Unfortunately, there are people who identify themselves as animal advocates who claim that the solution to the problem of animal exploitation is violence.

Some of these people have actually engaged in acts of violence against institutional exploiters. Others incite acts of violence by calling on people to use “intimidation” against animal exploiters…

If you love something, you don’t kill it.



I didn’t need to spend time in a squeeze box to learn that. Love is not killing. If you know what another being feels--not just how you feel when you touch it--then you know that living things want to remain alive. It doesn’t matter if they’re not afraid of death before they know what’s going to happen to them. In the moment when the killing happens, they know, and they want to stay alive. I have…

We may become irate that someone would even suggest that our mother’s loving meals and our father’s barbecues were a form of indoctrination. Our mother and father didn’t intend to indoctrinate us, just as their

parents didn’t intend to indoctrinate them. Nevertheless, our old

herding culture, primarily through the family and secondarily through

religious, educational,…

Transcript of Bruce Friedrich’s ARZone Guest Chat

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By recognizing and understanding the violence inherent in our culture’s meal rituals and consciously adopting a plant-based diet, becoming a voice for those who have no voice, we can attain greater compassion and

happiness and live more fully the truth of our interconnectedness with

all life. In this we fulfill the universal teachings…

And You Wonder Why the Public Thinks That “Animal Rights” People Are Crazy?



Written by Gary L. Francione

Dear Colleagues:…

Transcript of Dave Warwak’s Live ARZone Guest Chat

30 January 2010

3pm US Pacific Time

6pm US Eastern…