Leben zu zerstören – zu töten – ist kein Verzicht?

Leben zu schützen, zu achten, zu respektieren, ist ein Verzicht?

Auf welcher Seite der Gleichung bewegt sich das Denken von Jemandem?

Ist er oder sie pro-Tötung nichtmenschlichem tierischen Lebens? Oder ist er oder sie eins, zusammenfühlend, -denkend und -handelnd mit den so anderen, so bewundernswerten Lebenwesen, die wir Tiere nennen?

Destruktivität ist nicht nur immer Ausdruck  der eigenen Selbstdestruktivität, Destruktivität ist auch die Folge verantwortungslosem Denkens, das ist ein Denken, das nicht fähig ist die großen Bezüge vom “Selbst” hin zur unbegrenzten Außenwelt herzustellen.

Vegan sein heißt Leben zu achten. Das der anderen Lebenwesen, das eigene und das Leben als Ganzes, die ganze Welt in ihrer Komplexität.

Vegan sein ist kein Verzicht.

( Eine ungleiche Gleichung: Töten oder verstehen lernen wollen )

Eine Anmerkung zur Auswahl dieser Grafik: die Frage warum sich das Problem des Tötens bei Raubtieren anders gestaltet als beim Menschen, muss man gesondert thematisieren. Aber eines das ich dazu aber grundsätzlich sagen will ist, das unsere Verantwortlichkeit und undere Rolle auf dieser Welt, und unser Sinn, ein eigener ist und ein selbstgegebener. Wenn nichtmenschliche Tiere andere Tiere töten, liegt das im Bereich ihrer Lebensweise und ihrer Lebensethik. Die Lebensphilosophien allen existierenden Lebens haben Schnittstellen miteinander, die sich auf differenzierte und diefferenzierbare Weise zueinander verhalten können.

Ok, beide haben ein Problem mit Tierrechten, Domian sowieso – denn er ist nicht mal vegan – und der vegane Anrufer auch, denn er hat kein greifendes Argument für Tierrechte, sondern sagt nur “das ist ethisch nicht ok” und “keine Notwendigkeit”. Domian sagt intuitiv richtig, dass der vegane Anrufer etwas postuliere. Die Forderung nach ethischer Berücksichtigung setzt IMMER eine Postulierung voraus. Auch in der Sache von Menschenrechten. Was Tierrechte anbelangt, und dies ist noch mehr als eine Postuliering: es gibt keine TATSÄCHLICHEN Menschenrechte ohne ein Zulassen und eine Anerkennung der vom Menschen in unabhängiger Weise existierenden Rechte nichtmenschlicher Tiere  (die Frage der Existenz und ihres Rechts) .

Tierrechte stehen zum menschlichen Paradigma in einem autonomen Verhältnis.

Recht ist nicht abhängig von der Definition. Es gibt Rechte, auch wenn sie vom Menschen nicht anerkannt werden, nicht verstanden werden, nicht berücksichtigt werden. Am besten lässt sich das beim Verständnis über das ureingenste individuelle Recht nachempfinden (das von der Gemeinschaft beschädigt oder gefährdet werden kann, auch zu “unrecht”, d.h. in einem unvernünftigem Maße). Nun, auch was außerhalb unseres menschlichen Denk- oder eher Erfassungsbereichs liegt hat in sich Berechtigung.

Das Universum ist in sich Gesetz unabhängig von unserem Sein und unserem Begreifen. Wir können der Welt mit Hinwendung und Repekt begegnen und das Dasein und das sich damit koppelnde Recht des Anderen verstehen lernen, akzeptieren und schützen vor ungerechten Übergriffen durch Menschen.

Cardinals Rally Squirrel

People in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, are supposedly wearing real squirrel tails on their baseball hats to support their team, the Cardinals, or even to support charity alongside with that since the tails are marketed for that purpose too, ever since recently a squirrel ran over the play field and the idea came up for the crowd to have a or this squirrel as a mascot.

Obviously the hoard of fans are (like in many cases where animals are involved in such circumstances) unreasonable enough to not care about wildlife, nonhuman animal well being and nonhuman animal life. They seem to see squirrels as something like a “cute pest” which sounds oxymoronic, but that would explain why on one hand they like squirrels but on the other hand they like them dead too at the same time, so that they can stick the animals’ tails to their baseball hats?

A friend from STL says “On the Channel 2 news, Mandy Murphy, stressed : “… and those are *real* Squirrel tails !” While footage of a huge crowd at the stadium was being shown. As if that was something good. I’m not sure now if what Mandy Murphy said was accurate or not. I assumed they were fake before I heard her say that. I think the original Rally Squirrel was set free, if I heard correctly. I know that some people are eager to involve real dead Squirrels, see : Taxidermist Hops on Rally Squirrel Bandwagon.”

It’s more than a shame that Tony La Russa, the Cardinals manager, who is an avid animal welfare advocate, see his foundation: http://www.arf.net , is maybe something like a speciesist by not saying anything against the squirrel craze if it leads to using dead squirrel parts to promote his team and charity work connected with baseball.

* WHY was it possible to sneak dead animal parts into the craze if people were considerate about the actual animals? “When we heard the squirrel merchandise had sold out so quickly, we went to our backup supplier, ebay. Somebody was selling Rally Squirrel earrings, an RS Christmas ornament, and tee shirts. But one guy who is a taxidermist was selling a real stuffed squirrel on which he has mounted a little plastic red cap so that you can have your very own (stuffed) rally squirrel. Bidding already had reached $84.99 when we checked yesterday morning.” St. Louis gets squirrelly

* ALSO what does this suggest ? : ‘ [...] … customer’s request for “five-hundred squirrel tails”. Not full costumes, just the tails – apparently for use during the Cards’ upcoming home games against Milwaukee this week in the National League Championship Series. “We can help him out,” Brock quickly pointed out. “But it’s not an item that anybody manufactures. You can’t go out and find a squirrel tail company.” ” Johnnie Brock’s Sells Out Of Squirrel Costumes

Below are 20 new suppliers who have been uncovered sneaking in and out of HLS in New Jersey (US) and Huntingdon (UK). Typically of HLS, they still can’t even afford to pay some of them – many of the suppliers from the US listed below are owed outstanding debts ranging from $1,000 to $6,000 and everything in between!

Clearly these companies will already be fed up with HLS, so please take a moment to send them a polite letter, e-mail or phone call to ask them to do the
sensible thing: DROP HLS!

Remember, that without the help of companies like these that keep HLS open by supplying essential services and products 70,000 animals would be being
experimented on as HLS would not have the equipment to do it!

Click: http://www.shac.net/SHAC/victories.html to see previous suppliers who have dumped HLS.

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==== UK SUPPLIERS ====

1 – StarLab (UK) Ltd
Unit 4 Tanners Drive
Blakelands
Milton Keynes, MK14 5NA
Tel.: +44 1908 283800
Fax: +44 1908 283802
e-mail: infoline@starlab.co.uk
web: www.starlab.co.uk

Medical equipment supplier.

2 – Softcat Limited
Thames Industrial Estate,
Fieldhouse Lane,
Marlow, Bucks, SL7 1TB
Tel: 01628 403 403
e-mail: sales@softcat.com
web: www.softcat.com

Software and IT equipment supplier (offices also in Manchester and London).

3 – Henderson Biomedical Ltd
Worsley Bridge Road
Lower Sydenham
London, SE26 5AZ
Tel: +44 (0)20 8663 4610
e-mail: info@henderson-biomedical.co.uk
web: henderson-biomedical.co.uk

Maintains lab equipment.

4 – Billy Bowie Special Projects Ltd
Moorfield Industrial Estate,
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, KA2 0BA
Tel: 01563 549 049
e-mail: info@billybowietankers.co.uk
web: www.billybowietankers.co.uk

Suppliers of waste management to HLS. (They also have additional sites in
Widness, Cheshire and Ecclesfield, Yorkshire).

5 – Sera Laboratories International
Unit 44, Bolney Grange Business Park,
Haywards Heath,
West Sussex, RH17 5PB
Tel: 01444 250010 and 01444 250066
e-mail: sales@seralab.co.uk
web: www.seralab.co.uk

Suppliers of animal and human serum to HLS.

6 – Carl Stuart Limited
Tallaght Business Park
Whitestown, Dublin 24, Ireland
Ph: 00353 1 4523432
Fax: 00353 1 4523967
e-mail: onlinestore@carlstuart.com
web: www.labunlimited.com

Suppliers of lab equipment to HLS. Also in Surrey and N Ireland.

7 – Samedan Ltd. Pharmaceutical Publishing
16 Hampden Gurney Street,
London, W1H 5AL
Tel: 0207 724 3456 and 0207 7242632
e-mail: info@samedanltd.com
web: www.samedanltd.com

Supplying advertising, editorial & online content to promote HLS.

8 – Parallabs Ltd (Operations)
268 Stockingstone Road,
Luton,
Bedfordshire,
LU2 7DE
Tel: 07701 078332
e-mail: office@parallabs.com
web: www.parallabs.com

Supplies lab equipment to HLS.

==== US SUPPLIERS ====

9 – BIO-SERV
1 8th Street, Suite 1
Frenchtown, NJ 08825
Tel: 908 996 2155
Fax: 908 996 4123
e-mail: sales@bio-serv.com
web: www.bio-serv.com

Suppliers of specialist ‘lab’ diets. Won’t accept credit account from HLS and they have to pay with credit card.

10 – Beckman Coulter, Inc.
Diagnostics Division Headquarters
250 South Kraemer Boulevard,
Brea, CA 92821-6232
Phone: 1-714-993-5321 or 1-800-526-3821
Fax: 1-800-232-3828
e-mail: mluthy@beckman.com
web: www.beckmancoulter.com

Lab equipment services and supplier to HLS, New Jersey.

11 – Culligan (Customer Services)
305 Clearview Road
Edison, NJ 08837-3709
Phone/Fax: 1-800 272 0079
e-mail: Derek.Driscoll@culligan.com
web: www.culligan.com

HLS are behind on payments of nearly $6,000, they supply water treatment equipment.

12 – EverBank Commercial Finance
10 Waterview Boulevard, Parsippany,
New Jersey,
NJ 07054, USA
Phone: 1 866-879-8795
web: www.everbankcommercialfinance.com

Supplies financial lease for office equipment to HLS in New Jersey.

13 – RAE Corporation
P.O. Box 1206, Pryor, OK 74362
Phone: 1-800-264-5329 (US Toll free) and 1-918-825-7222
e-mail: webmaster@rae-corp.com
web: www.rae-corp.com

Supplies cooling systems and HLS owe them $2,600.

14 – Tri-Dim Filter Corporation
Corp HQ, 93 Industrial Drive
Louisa, VA 23093, USA
Tel: 1-800-260-4070 (US Toll Free)
e-mail: info@tridim.com
web: www.tridim.com

Suppliers of filters to HLS NJ. Once again, HLS have been late with payments.

15 – Hubert Company
9555 Dry Fork Road
Harrison, Ohio 45030, USA
Tel: 1-800-543-7374 (US Toll Free)
e-mail: president@hubert.com
web: www.hubert.com

HLS NJ owes over $1000 from June, for catering equipment.

16 – United Business Systems
302 Rt. 46 East,
Fairfield,
New Jersey,
NJ 07004, USA
Phone: 1 908 451 6666
e-mail: RIC332@aol.com and Carlo@ubscopy.com
web: www.ubscopy.com

Supplies copiers to HLS New Jersey.

17 – PTC Therapeutics Inc.
100 Corporate Court,
South Plainfield, New Jersey,
NJ 07080-2449, USA
Phone: 1-908-222-7000
e-mail: info@ptcbio.com
web: www.ptcbio.com

Yes, HLS owe them money too!

18 – United Refrigeration, Inc.
5 Johnson Drive, Bldg 5, Raritan, New Jersey, NJ 08869-1662, USA
Phone: 1 908-927-1188
Fax: 1 908-927-1181
e-mail: branch419@uri.com
web: www.uri.com

Supplies commercial water heaters.

19 – Gem Limousine Worldwide
70 Amboy Avenue, Woodbridge, New Jersey, NJ 07095, USA
Phone: 1 732 596 0900
e-mail: bchirico@gemlimo.com
web: www.gemlimo.com

Transports clients and staff to / from HLS, New Jersey.

20 – Staffmark
1090 King George
Post Road
Edison, NJ 08837, USA
Phone: 732-985-4730
e-mail: sduran@staffmark.com
web: www.staffmark.com

Staffing company placing for HR dept at HLS, New Jersey.

Please keep your communications polite and informative – taking action is what counts. Remember every call, every email and every letter counts so what are
you waiting for? Get active for the animals trapped inside HLS – they are counting on you. Together, we CAN make a difference.

Until all are free!

Links to visit in the context:

http://www.shac7.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/untilallarefree

SOURCE: www.shac.net/2011supplierleak/index.html

A corporate advertisement that extols the company’s ethically motivated animal rights or animal protection measures taken, their record or policies – usually by a company known to rape and pillage nonhuman animal concerns as thoroughly as possible.

A: Have you seen those new campaign targets by the PETA, that show how easily “animal friendly” can become a swear word?

B: They are pure AR porn, man.

or rather

A: Have you seen PETAs recent campaign for animals?

B: Don’t fall for that! Check their policies on euthanasia.

ar-pornography animal rights pornography, considerate about nonhumanbeings interests washing

Ok maybe peta makes an animal rights porn site to try to ridiculously cover up that fact that they are animal rights porn.

You can’t call a lip service “help”, you can’t even call a an action “help”, when all the “help” you think you are giving is undone by the next steps you are taking. … And that even routinely in the case of peta and their active euthanasia of nonhuman animals. Also, their campaigns cater to an anti AR rethoric and only thus gain a lot of support from the people loyal to them, who helplessly “bark upon the wrong tree”.  If people don’t see that being for or against animal rights is not a matter of belonging to a certain group, but that it’s actually actions and opinions that matter, then those people can rightly be called ethically short sighted.

SHAC have had a busy couple of weeks targeting Astrazeneca, a major pharma company and Huntington Life Sciences customer.

Declaring a week of action against the company, SHAC held protests against their head offices in Luton on the 31st August, as well as a tour of demos against their shareholders in London: BlackRock, Invesco, Legal & General (who, incidentally, also invest in the manufacture of cluster bombs) and Axa on Friday 2nd. Worldwide,actions against Astrazeneca – and their subsidiaries and shareholders – have taken place in Atlanta, San Francisco, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chile, Canada, Ireland, France and the Netherlands.

For more info see http://www.shac.net

source: SCHNEWS, Issue 787, Friday 9th September 2011

source: http://www.schnews.co.uk/archive/news726.php

REPORT FROM NEW ORLEANS ON THE BP OIL-SPILL DISASTER…

In response to America’s largest ever environmental disaster, Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, said, “I’d like my life back.” We’re sure he does, as would the eleven workers who died on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig when it exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20th.

But you have to sympathise with Tony. The fact that BP failed to test the strength of the cement in the well, despite knowing that the casing was “the riskier of two options” and that it “might collapse under pressure” can’t be held against him. Even though the same disregard for safety killed 15 and injured 170 BP workers in the Texas Oil Refinery explosion of 2005.

BP has also had over 20 years since the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in Alaska to learn from its botched response to that disaster. Yes, despite Exxon having its name on the tanker, it was actually BP who disastrously failed to contain the toxic sludge that spewed into pristine wilderness. But that was then. BP has since spent billions of dollars on advertising telling us they are ‘Beyond Petroleum’ – so beyond it in fact they don’t care how much they lose.

BP has had over 8,000 minor and major recorded spills since 1990 alone. While all eyes have been on the current ecocide in the Gulf of Mexico, their Alaskan Pipeline burst in late May, spewing 100,000 gallons of oil into the environment. State inspectors say this occurred because “procedures weren’t properly implemented,” in other words – they didn’t give a damn.

The ho-hum lackadaisical attitude of Tony Hayward is indicative of BP’s disaster response in general. It has been shocking to see BP’s slow response to contain the oil. There is a complete lack of any oil containment technology, beyond stringing some booms (vinyl tubes) over the ocean that deflate and blow away. While the oil industry has poured billions of dollars into riskier deep-water drilling, it has not invested in responses to the leaks and disasters that have increased four fold in the last decade.

CRUDE JOKE

Maybe we’re overreacting. Let us again heed the soothing words of Tony, or Tiny Tony as he is now known in the US due to the following comment, “The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.” That would be the estimated 47 million to 235 million gallons of toxic crude oil that has poured into the ocean over the last eight weeks. Not to mention the use in the ‘clean up’ of one million tonnes of the Corexit oil dispersant, a neuro toxin pesticide banned in the UK, arguably as harmful as the oil itself.

We need not worry our silly little heads about the ecological destruction either. Tiny Tony assures us, “the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.” Come now Tony, it’s you that is being modest. This disaster is going to kill thousands of dolphins and sea turtles, hundreds of thousands of seabirds and billions of fish and shellfish.

The communities along the Louisiana coast, whose main work is fisheries, have lost their catch to a greater predator, and BP are playing on their vulnerability and dividing them by giving the ‘lucky’ few work cleaning up the toxic waste. BP has refused to provide masks and other safety equipment to those in these communities, and when this resulted in several cases of clean-up workers being hospitalised, Tony said it was probably due to food poisoning. Shrimp à la oil?

The Louisiana wetlands that nurture the wildlife and communities have already been decimated by the oil industry. The wetlands are a 4.2 million acre region where the Mississippi River flows into the Atlantic. They have formed over 7,500 years by the rivers flooding and annually depositing silt creating long fingers of land and barrier islands. It has taken just 75 years for them to have been almost completely destroyed. They are disappearing faster than any other part of the world, with an area the size of a football field lost every 38 minutes.

Oil and natural gas were discovered in Louisiana’s coastal areas in the early 1900s. This lead to long canals being cut through the wetlands to transport drilling equipment and oil. As well as being destructive in itself, this allowed more salt water to seep in to the wetlands, which killed the freshwater plants’ roots leading to further soil erosion. These wetlands act as a natural defence against hurricane storm surges. The further they are destroyed the more vulnerable coastal towns all the way up to New Orleans become. The storm surge from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 flooded 80% of the city, killing over 2,000 people.

As New Orleans and the coastal region still struggle to recover five years after Katrina they face a real kick in the teeth. Meteorological experts are predicting, “the most active season on record” for hurricanes, comparing ocean temperatures that contribute to hurricane formation to those in the summer of Katrina. Oil from the BP rig is predicted to continue to spew in to the gulf for months to come. A hurricane sweeping a surge of oil into the wetlands and towns of Louisiana would be apocalyptic for the region.

Tiny Tony put it best last year, saying BP’s “primary purpose was to generate profit for our share holders” and that “our primary purpose in life was not to save the world.” Really Tony, you don’t say.

Some different related links:

Caught in the oil :AP Photographer Charlie Riedel just filed the following images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html

BP is sadly just one of many players in the appalling offshore drilling picture, the latest oil-soaked pelicans among many victims.  ByJohn Sorenson

http://beta.themarknews.com/articles/1665-the-birds-and-the-bps

Animal Rights Activists Protest Oil Giant BP

http://www.examiner.com/x-46236-West-Palm-Beach-Animal-Rights-Examiner~y2010m5d28-Animal-Rights-Activists-Protest-Oil-Giant-BP

Counting the Carcasses by John Collins Rudolph

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/counting-the-carcasses/?partner=rss&emc=rss

WVBS for Gulf Coast Wildlife

http://animalrightscollective.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/wvbs-for-gulf-coast-wildlife/

Is it you yourself who decides about what you consider to be your “right”? It’s an inner process, isn’t it, that you believe you ought to have a right to breathe, a right to walk wherever you want to, a right to say whatever you feel like saying.

There is another layer of the term “right” that is not an inner process but that marks instead that what the society, or the whole human world considers to be a “right” or your “right” respectively. This form of a “legal right” – lets ground it upon the basis of a generalized form of all legal human rights taken together as, so to speak, a “generic” type of a right the humans actually “grant” you, themselves as a group, or a group within the human group – this generic type of an exclusively human right (our current “legal right”) can be detached and even really be something different than the type of right you give yourself.

Without the outer form of a right that is given to you as a person or that is in contrast NOT given to any other living sentient being, you or any sentient being still has their inner sense of what I would call a right. It’s not so that a sense of right (which has something to do with rights and wrongs, as strange as we may think this would be) is something that only exists if you are told what is wrong and what is right. A sense of what you personally may consider a right is something dependent on the beings socialization, on its social contexts. And yes, I do call the behaviour of nonhuman animals amongst other nonhuman animals too a form of social behaviour.

Now if people say “rights” are nothing natural in the case of “animal rights”, and Animal Rights can only be granted on a more or less arbitrary basis, they are wrong insofar in which one can easily realize that all rights in the purest form are something that has to be dealt with on a subjective and a socio-ethical plane.

Rights are natural, because rights stem from self-experience and social interaction. Legal rights on the contrast are quite arbitrary.

What is important is to distinguish where a moral basis of a right has its validity in the context with the experienced reality of a subjective living sentient being and its broader contextuality.

No, homocentrism is quite a contrast to humanism. I am a radical vegan Animal Rights and Human Rights advocate. It’s too black and white to say: you have to “kill” plants to eat: cos you don’t have to “kill” plants, you can harvest their veggies. If you are against Animal Rights I can not and do not want to convince you of the idea. Just as little as I don’t want to convince a racist of Human Rights, honestly, you can’t do that. Leave everybody where they are, but talk to those you feel sympathetic to … to their ideas that is.