WOW, Stephen... very insightful. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
'Couldn't have said it better myself.
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- Charlotte Sullivan
Executive Director
Protect Animal Life
"PEACE AND FREEDOM FOR ALL WHO LIVE"
Stephen R. Figgins wrote:
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> Hi Greg!
>
> Your posts in defense of the meat i
Very good points, Candi. Thanks for the enlightenment!
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- Charlotte Sullivan
Executive Director
Protect Animal Life
"PEACE AND FREEDOM FOR ALL WHO LIVE"
candi churchill wrote:
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> i agree w/ Charlotte Sullivan in that the vegatarian issue has been
> overdone. i do not mean to say i
Wow, Patty... very well put!
lokken wrote:
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> At 12:43 PM 9/15/96 EST, you wrote:
>
> >By the way, I'm still waiting for a response to my question about how sexism
> >connects with environmental degradation in the practiacal life of a
> >middle-class, north american, white woman.
> >
> >Omar
G.GARRARD wrote:
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> Dear Stephen,
> The reason veggie issue keeps coming up is because there -appears- to
> be neat homology between animal exploitation and sexism. The are
> certainly area of -analogy-, but the identical character usually
> claimed is an insult to feminism (I think) and a total
omar:
when you wrote, "It is not enough to acknowledge that you are a
recipient of privelege. The point is to work against your privelege,
your power. If you just accept your status, ..._ you continue your
role as an active oppressor." would that include persons who have
struggled to a
It seems the difference here is between "privilege" and "power." I
think what Omar is writing about is white privilege, a very real privilege
that is NOT power but something unearned and predicated upon institutions of
racism. Perhaps power can come from understanding that one experience
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>Kimberly Hart wrote:
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>> First point: I find it interesting that vegetarians who are concerned about
>> animal welfare rarely discuss plant welfare. Just because a plant doesn't
>> bleed and doesn't have a nervous system we cannot assume that it is beyond
>> feeling. It is possible
Here's the itinerary for the Midwest Women in Philosophy meeting.
Apologies for length.
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Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL 6202
Hi ECOFEMers!
Since some of you are involved and/or interested in activism, here's
a new feminist list you might find worthwhile. I haven't signed on
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any d
Dear Mr Figgis,
You are frankly kidding yourself if you think you can simply dispense
with 'value hierarchical thinking' in the way that you suggest.
Moreover, your assumption that this would even be a good thing is
open to question. Certainly it is true that man/woman and
human/nature have, a
>Stephen R. Figgins wrote:
>>What stupid stupid arguements for eating meat. And what a stupid
>>arguement against advocating a vegetarian diet for those who have the
>>ability to choose. And it does not address at all the attitudes that
>>lead us to such a horrible meat industry, massive environ
>
I would like to suggest that there is an intrinsic link between feminist
practices and those of real world farming practices and indeed plumbing;
that all revolve around concepts of consumption and resource control as
demanded by capitalism. That the absence of a spiritual wholeness required
b
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