It is sad and disappointing how many on both the left and right don’t think the rule of law should apply to people they dislike or disagree with.

#MAHA wants to destroy what limited public health services already exist and replace them with spirituality, wellness, manifestation, homeopathy, crystal healing, carnivore diet and supplement grifters 💰 💰 💰

How bad does something have to be for us to boycott it? Particularly when we have other options readily available. Where do we draw the line? If we have a line at all.

If we wouldn’t pay someone to kick a puppy, why would we pay for someone to kill a sentient animal in a slaughterhouse?

Are slaughterhouses bad enough to boycott?

There are some people and some institutions that cannot be understood by assuming they care about facts or values. So let’s stop trying. Because they don’t care about facts or values. At all.

You might not need a new religion. You might just need a new worldview. Like the #Sentientism worldview’s “evidence, reason, and compassion for all sentient beings.” What’s not to like?

The problems of capitalism aren’t just problems of capitalism. The problems of communism aren’t just problems of communism. The problems of centrism aren’t just problems of centrism.

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Spirituality, Veganism & Sentientism. The wonderful Mari Andrew joins me on #Sentientism episode 243. Find our full conversation on the Sentientism YouTube and Podcast as ever. Here's a clip for you to share! Thanks @mariandrew.skystack.xyz

Spirituality, Veganism & Sentientism. The wonderful Mari Andrew joins me on @sentientism.bsky.social episode 243. Find our full conversation on the Sentientism YouTube and Podcast as ever. Here's a clip for you to share! Thanks @mariandrew.skystack.xyz

Excited to be joining Bluesky! 👋 We’re the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience, an interdisciplinary research centre at LSE. Our work is guided by ethical moonshots - ambitious, long‑term goals aimed at restoring a harmonious relationship between humans and other species. 🌐 lse.ac.uk/sentience

This could not be more critical to understand.

Teaching critical thinking and inclusive ethics isn’t “indoctrination.” Just as being moral isn’t “being biased.”

And laws and regulations and treaties and bills of rights and policies and charters and articles of association and charitable objectives and constitutions…

Pro-exploitation arguments are almost entirely about the arguer’s psychology and sociology and almost nothing to do with philosophy or facts.

Most humans are psychopathic towards farmed animals.

War is bad. But imagine starting a war unprovoked. Imagine conducting a war against innocents who have no weapons to defend themselves. Imagine an endless war. Imagine a war where, when you’ve killed everyone, you force breed more victims so you can continue the war.

The ethical, environmental, pollution, disease, deforestation, food waste and biodiversity loss trade-offs between factory farming and non-factory animal farming are so tricky. Until we realise that plants & fungi & plant-based foods 🌱 are edible, nutritious and delicious 🥳

Dear companies, You don’t have to make a big song and dance about “the v word.” Just transition, quickly and quietly, to take all animal derived components out of your products & supply chains. Doing so will slash your ethical & environmental impact. Probably your costs too.

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What types of foods should we provide for our kids to reflect their own values and the values we want them to develop? And when they look back in 20 years, what will they think of the choices we made for them?

1) Almost all animal products and ingredients come from factory farms 2) The very worst factory farming practices, from the perspectives of the animals, are also standard in non-factory farming 3) “Humane” means kindness and compassion. So there is no humane farming or slaughter.

1) Taking out a contract to kill someone is fine 2) Doing the contract killing has more integrity 3) Murdering someone yourself has even more integrity! 4) Murdering someone then eating them is full-on admirable 🏆 Just normal human #animalethics applied to human animals.

Our laws are against causing unnecessary suffering, exploitation and death. Which means our animal agriculture systems are illegal.

1) Benefit from cooperation 2) Become powerful and overconfident 3) Defect, betray, dominate, isolate 4) Lose trust, then power 5) Wonder WTF happened.

Is there ANY health issue that isn’t more likely and more severe when you consume animal products? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

It’s deeply worrying that so many people working on AI alignment seem to think that default human values are actually good 🤯

We want to teach our kids to be kind to animals ❤️ So what should we teach them about whether slaughterhouses are ethical?

Or, more accurately, hear the tables turned…

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It’s important to be able to recognise those people for whom facts and values are simply irrelevant. Particularly when they have power.

It’s good that the Graham Norton show has no advert breaks because the Graham Norton show is already just a series of adverts.

If we’ve ever boycotted anything, anything at all… Then we understand why vegans, as far as is practicable and possible, boycott products made through sentient animal exploitation, torture and killing. It’s extremely straightforward.

“The Mountain In The Sea” author Ray Nayler 🤩 joins me on #Sentientism episode 242 on podcast and YouTube. #scifi Here's a clip!: www.youtube.com/shorts/hY4DC... Full episode (also on podcast!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-PX... Show notes and all the links: sentientism.info/the-mountain...

“The Mountain In The Sea” author Ray Nayler 🤩 joins me on @sentientism.bsky.social episode 242 on podcast and YouTube. #scifi Here's a clip!: www.youtube.com/shorts/hY4DC... Full episode (also on podcast!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-PX... Show notes & links: sentientism.info/the-mountain...

This is exactly why Trump admires Putin’s fascistic imperialism. He wants to do it himself.

For some people, the truth doesn’t matter. For some people, others don’t matter. Don’t be like them, try @sentientism.bsky.social Evidence, reason, and compassion for all sentient beings.

I don’t think revelation is a robust epistemological method, whether we’re examining supernatural beliefs or the nature of consciousness.

youtu.be/WrKnKOxLDYs?... Very exciting work these gentlemen are doing. I hope they succeed. @sentientism.bsky.social thank you for this discussion! go #vegan

Non human sentient beings should be part of every moral conversation. It’s not enough to address them as an afterthought on the rare occasion that someone asks the awkward question. Unthinking, unchallenged anthropocentrism is even more dangerous than explicit anthropocentrism.

How much has changed in 50 years?... youtu.be/VlTYjaQLy2o

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

If we struggle to understand why vegans boycott animal products, we can simply think of how we all already feel about fur, foie gras and trophy hunting.

We humans are very comfortable being outraged about the non-human animal exploitations we’re not complicit in. And we happily boycott the animal products (fur, foie gras…) we never bought anyway.

And we're not going to be able to fix this if we keep ignoring the impacts of animal agriculture. It's time to push back on the #BigAnimalAg lobbyists and the politicians they've bought 🤑 Just like #BigOil and #BigTobacco before them. ourworldindata.org/environmenta...

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Checkmate vegans! 🤣