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.

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

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.

Came across this interesting finding by Prof. Marija Gimbutas on the meaning and origin of “Hulda” as in the tale “Mother Hulda”.

Marija Gimbutas names Hulda (or Holda, Holla, Holle) as having originally been an ancient Germanic supreme goddess who predates most of the German pantheon, including deities such as Odin, Thor, Freya and Loki, continuing traditions of pre-Indo-European Neolithic Europe. (Gimbutas, Marija, The Living Goddesses (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.)

What I find striking about specifically the tale “Mother Hulda” is that no princess and princesses play any role in it. Also there are no male protagonists, apart from that. The entire narrative is one happening amongst women and other entities and phenomena (the tree, the oven, the house, the snow, the well, the gold, the garden).

Anyway I checked out more info about Prof. Gimbutas and was amazed at her body of work and her approach of what she calls “archeomythology”.

Links:

http://www.marijagimbutas.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marija_Gimbutas

The titles that interest me most are:

The Language of the Goddess

The Living Goddesses

The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images

The Civilization of the Goddess

Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe

Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe, 7000-3500 B.C.: Myths, Legends and Cult Images

Age of the Great Goddess: Ancient Roots of the Emerging Feminine Consciousness

http://www.amazon.com/Marija-Gimbutas/e/B000AP936C/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Image: http://www.skischule-frauholle.at

In a small country every person owned a garden with fruit and vegetables of all sorts.

Nobody would eat anything from the animal kingdom that had been killed.

When old King had a deadly accident in his garden (or had he been killed?) his son, Zohhak, a spoiled greedy young man, would inherit the Kingdom.

The young king always had many friends around him.

And to his group of friends one new young man came to add up, and that one offered himself to the king as the best of all cooks.

First this mastercook would serve tasty meals made from eggs. Then something made out of small birds, then geese and ducks, delicate spicy piglets and

the young king and his group of his friends forgot that they had really started eating animals.

A big friendship developed between the king and the mastercook. As a token of their closeness the cook asked the king if he would allow him to kiss his cheeks. How much the young king loved to grant such a humble desire of his master, since the lust that this cook had for good meals seemed the greatest pleasure that life could provide to him.

Suddenly something horrific happened to the young king’s beautiful body! On each side a serpent crept half way out of his shoulders . They opened their mouths hungry for food. They tormented him cos they would reject every usual food for snakes.

The young king had all doctors and advisors come for a cure. No one could help him, except one advisor,

who recommended to kill young men, sever their brains out and prepare a meal from that for the snakes.

Now the serpents got calm, but also they now had firmly grown into the shoulders of the king.

At the same time the young king hadn’t only changed outwardly. His character became cruel and brutal, his people feared him. He involved the people in brutal wars and his live itself ended in a gruesome way.

Here is a link to the Zahhak pages of Farangis. And check out some good n fresh and healthy and hygienic vegan recipes.

Color Theory, booklet consisting of 6 prints with text in diamond case. Texts and images by Farangis. € 25.00 / $ 37.00.

Pink morning
pink cheeks
pink sky
unblemished
cyclamen
snow-white white
fairy tale women
cheeks, hot
no day
ends
in pink

Green trees,
green marsians,
Goethe liking
“green sauce” (German dish),
green green green
are all my clothes (allusion to passage of a German folk song)
because my husband
is no good hunter
since he shoots my deer

Blue eyes
has my cat
sees
in the blue sky
blackbirds
looks at me
so blue
looks at me
so smart

Purple Cathedrals
purple priests
purple gowns
purple purplus
he reads in purple
purple women
in the niches
humble heading towards church and kitchen and children

multicoloured dog
gorges
only veggies
doctor says ‘that won’t work’
multicoloured dog
pees on car’s wheels
guardians
are aggrieved
multicoloured dog
is pretty healthy

Yellow bright
Nina rocks
in rockers’ cave
yellow glimpse
hits into the taboo
whips a
storm of german words
skrieking screams
a yellow-light hell
how that shoots
I like to listen