It shocks me every time how “because we’re human” is so uncritically accepted as the answer to the “who matters?” question. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h... I’m glad many humanists are thinking more critically and more compassionately than this.

It’s common for people to respond to the #vegan proposal as if they’re being asked to change their favourite colour 🌈 As if it’s an aesthetic, personal choice that has absolutely no moral impact. And they really don’t want to change. Fascinating #psychology & #sociology

Authenticity and integrity are only good if you’re a good person.

Animal farmers don't like exploiting or killing animals. But consumers, corporations and culture push them to keep doing it. faunalytics.org/farmers-love... @faunalytics.bsky.social

"Some of the most important global problems of the 21st century, from malnutrition, to climate change, to the large-scale torture of animals raised for food, could be mitigated if humans ate more soy directly." www.vox.com/future-perfe...

If you insist animal agriculture can’t be fascistic because non-human animals don’t count as moral patients so can’t be real victims… Remember that you’re doing exactly what fascists do.

Let’s boycott immoral production systems.

Your periodic reminder that demand-side food/GHG mitigation actions that reduce ag land demand (e.g., reduce food waste, shift high-meat diets toward plants) yield a "double climate dividend" by reducing 1) agricultural production emissions & 2) land pressures. 🧪 www.carbonbrief.org/rich-nations...

Yay for all these groups ✊ animalagalliance.org/initiatives/...

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

The Animal Turn podcast launches Season 8 with a dive into the intersections of media, racism, and speciesism. Tobias Linné, Ellen Gorsevski, and Natalie Khazaal discuss race, species, their Media Analysis of Racism and Speciesism (MARS) test. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e1

And a big thank you to all my wonderful guests too!

Partly because the most dangerous humans on the planet aren’t smart. But they are powerful.

I wonder if people might understand the risks of powerful AI more viscerally if experts talked a little less about smartness and intelligence and talked a lot more about power?

It sounds silly but this new précis of The Edge of Sentience is one of my favourite pieces of my own writing. Yes, it's true, you could get chatGPT to summarize my book (and it's open access, so you literally could) - but I do it better! www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol...

If you’re Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 or Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 , why would you vote for an English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (or even Russian 🇷🇺 ) nationalist party?

If it helps you to tell yourself that all Trumpers are sociopaths, how ever many tens of millions that is, I guess, whatever. But it's not accurate. That's not a defense of fascism, it's an indictment of it. It's evil politics, not a neurological condition.

I love Simone Weil. That is all. First of a two-part reflection on the French philosopher, mystic, and antifascist activist—through the lens of autism, embodiment, and political courage. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-antifascist-autistic-christianity-simone-weil

The deep irony of people using Orwell’s Animal Farm to understand totalitarianism without even a glimmer of recognition of our brutal totalitarianism towards actual non-human animals.

The genius of #MAHA is to give off a caring, "natural" vibe while attacking the regulated capitalism of #BigPharma. While pushing "it's all your fault & now you're on your own" policies that gorge on the unregulated capitalism of supplements & medbeds. And slashing public health.

Worldviews matter. Better pick a good one.

10/10 would recommend, and all for a GREAT cause.

This was great fun. Mind-bending questions and discussion...

Animal agriculture is fascistic.

Once our epistemology is broken in one area, there’s a risk it infects other areas. If we can believe the Earth 🌎 is flat, we can probably believe almost anything. We might start somewhere fairly harmless, and end up somewhere truly dark.

So frustrating to hear intelligent people discuss "If AIs become sentient then we'll have to recognise their rights just like we do with animals!" As if we actually recognise the rights of sentient animals. I hope, one day soon. But it's not today 😥 #SentientRights

I think this from @donmoyn.bsky.social is essential reading for the moment. I’d emphasize that the staggering process he describes doesn’t end with the assault on immigrants. It’s about creating an armed force loyal to nobody but Trump. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Loved this conversation. Let us know what you think! #SentientistEducation

BREAKING NEWS 🚨 @europarl.europa.eu insists that meat must now be called “flesh with faeces” and cows’ milk must now be called “mammalian gland secretions with pus.” Finally, some clarity for consumers about what they’re feeding their children 🥰 😋

New poll shows: Potential Conservative voters are now more than twice as likely to consider Brexit a failure rather than a success. @pimlicat.bsky.social: “The British public, including the Conservatives’ voters - recognise that Brexit has been a calamity for our economy.” https://bit.ly/3WxPUsO

Why doesn’t the word #senticide exist? Maybe it should?

Agreed, I found a few who got extremely defensive when I pointed out that their actions don’t align with Jane‘s quotes that they were posting.

Exactly. The mass media love Jane, except for her veganism, which they never mention.

Many people are brutally, self-servingly selective in their recollections of Jane Goodall’s message to humanity.

Many people are brutally, self-servingly selective in their recollections of Jane Goodall’s message to humanity.

A wonderful way to honour Jane Goodall’s life is to care about all sentient animals, like she did, rather than just some of them.

Join our next #Sentientism meetup! Plus some other updates: sentientism.info/sentientism-...

I hope all those American generals used that big meeting to set up a Signal group chat just in case they need to do a coup to save their country 🇺🇸 from fascism.

One beautiful gift you can give to yourself and the world is to allow yourself to think clearly and honestly about animal agriculture and exploitation.

And nearly all (~90%) of the nutritional value of that 70-80% is destroyed because of feed conversion ratios. Animal agriculture destroys way more food than it creates. And the land use 🤯 Which is why… ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

Vegans can sometimes get a bit emotional & angry. Just like non-vegans get emotional & angry if they see a crush video or their neighbour kicks a puppy. Default humans laugh at the vegans but join the outrage about the puppy 🐶 Yet we have more in common than you might think.

Really, Reform UK? THIS is what you're going with? That this man, who served as an MEP next to Nigel Farage for years and was made leader of your party in Wales by current deputy, Richard Tice, is just "one of tens of thousands of people Nigel meets on an annual basis"?~AA

How many needless deaths has the #antivaxx movement caused so far globally?

Such a pleasure to talk to Lawrence Anton about how the @sentientism.bsky.social worldview and #antinatalism might intersect: youtu.be/MpLAVGCR3wE

Imagine voting repeatedly for a gang of arsonists. Now, your town is burning 🔥 Various fire-fighters have started to try and put the fire out 👩‍🚒🚒 But it's still burning. You're angry and impatient. So you vote for the arsonists again. ~44%

If you needed any more reasons not to say “See you in Valhalla”, beyond you being Hindu and the dead person you’re talking to being Christian, it’s also a common way of signing off white supremacist mass shooter manifestos.

TikTokers worry about protein. Public health professionals worry about fibre.

Imagine having a role model who encourages others to know nothing and to care about no one.

Giving $500 to 1000 people to do something Drop Dead Generous (for any sentient being!) Co-founder ‪Tom Cledwyn joins me on Sentientism episode 236. Find our full conversation on the #Sentientism podcast and YouTube. Here's a clip to nudge you to watch or listen.

A #OneHealth approach committed to the health of our planet, non-human animals and human animals is powerful. A #OneHealth approach that is only concerned with non-human animal "health" so we human animals can continue to safely exploit them, has made a terrible error. @sentientism.bsky.social