Hint hint: Look at all ideas of supremacy … sex, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and—more important than you think— species. That is the key to tackling the basic problem, which is alienation from nature, a.k.a. the living world.

So long as we reduce sentient individuals who possess physiological & emotional makeups so very similar to our own to mere objects for our consumption, convenience & amusement, virtually any violent atrocity is not only possible, but permissible & inevitable. #OneBillionScreams

There will never be 'humane treatment' and 'welfare' in this hell for animals and a few fines now and then can never change this fact. To anyone who still consumes dairy, this is the suffering you choose to support.

Great piece! "Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive..." ~Megan Mayhew Bergman www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Apparently, you humans not only have the ability to feel pain & to suffer, but also to empathise & possess an acute capacity for moral reasoning. From our perspective, we see no evidence of any of these claims. To us you are unfeeling, merciless demons. We are #OneBillionScreams

The true cost of the dairy industry's 'growth' and 'profit' is enslavement, rivers of blood, forced impregnations, millions of stolen and murdered calves and a planet burning on methane.

“Everyone else does” If when making ethical decisions you rely upon majority approval rather using your moral reasoning then ethics is superfluous to your requirements & you’re obsequious conformists. Your cowardly obedience & wish to ‘fit in’ is our misery, pain & death. We are #OneBillionScreams

‘…What we should be discussing is how we can move forward & evolve as a race’ 💯

There is no neutral ground to stand on once you realize that the walls we've built to hide their suffering are also the walls that define the limits of your own sense of justice and morality.

THIS 💯 💯 💯

"The Thanksgiving turkey, functions as a ritual scapegoat in American culture, a symbolic animal onto whom people displace guilt, ambivalence, and resentment." ~ Karen Davis A worthwhile read by @mbolotnikova.bsky.social link.vox.com/view/66b4192...

To end fascism in the USA, I guess the first step is to explain to more people what it is we don't like about fascism. Currently, my own explanation begins with "fascism = bullying."

Within your participation in the violent abuse of living individuals, there exists a multiple murder; the callous killing of the animal individuals, the execution of your own innate capacity for empathy, the slaying of your moral reasoning & the death of your humanity. We are #OneBillionScreams

Two weeks ago, Grindr put on a fashion show of wool from "gay" rams rescued from slaughter. The media and the Internet swooned. But this feel-good story is a window into the dark role of forced reproduction in animal agriculture. By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

A society that thinks it is acceptable to operate through the enslavement, exploitation and industrialized slaughter of the defenseless can produce only violence and will never know justice or peace.

Society has forced us to be participants in needless, gratuitous violence on an unfathomable scale, yet instead of raging against society, we nurture our ambivalence & indifference & set in motion psychological mechanisms to numb ourselves to our indefensible cruelty. We are #OneBillionScreams

Traditions that demand the abuse and killing of the innocent are nothing more than the perpetuation of systemic violence passed down through generations.

2/3 “Domestication thus became the archetypal pattern for other kinds of social subordination. The model was a paternal one, with the ruler a good Shepherd, like the bishop with his pastoral staff. Loyal, docile animals obeying a considerate master were an example to all.

1/3 “Some anthropologists believe that it was the management of herds of domestic animals which first gave rise to an interventionist and manipulative conception of political life…. the domestication of animals generated a more authoritarian attitude”

Turkeys are flavorless and dry, and they want to live. This Thanksgiving, @mbolotnikova.bsky.social encourages you to challenge the status quo and embrace plant-based alternatives, have conversations about ethical food choices, and create more sustainable and compassionate traditions.

When we excuse & ignore cruelty, we become the reason it is normalised. When we condition our children to suppress their innate empathy & ignore their sense of justice & participate in this tyranny, we force them to become inheritors of our base moral corruption. We are #OneBillionScreams

About 5 million years ago. We became more human than ape. Compress that into a 24-hour time scale. We became farmers about three minutes ago We became fossil-fueled industrial humans about four seconds ago. We became digital/Internet/computerized humans a split second ago. So who we are?

hSo grateful they wrote about this! I thought, "do I have climb this trail again?" But Nik Taylor and Heather Fraser took it on, and their analysis is spot on! animalsinsocietygroup.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/q...

As mammals, we are what biologists call “social animals“. We have an instinct for empathy. It makes us feel for each other. It spills over to our kin—other animals. We are horrified (psychopaths excepted) by cruelty and suffering. So we hide slaughterhouses.

As Wicked: For Good hits theaters today, it's important not to ignore the root of Elphaba’s supposed wickedness: her horror at the mistreatment of animals and her determination to free them.

It is in our own best interest to stop exploiting and killing members of other species for our purposes. We need to abolish all animal agriculture before it abolishes us. www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/h...

2/2 If you do possess any degree of integrity, any strength of character, if ethics are in any way important to you, it is imperative that you choose to rise to a minimal level of moral decency, align your actions with your principles & stand up for what is right.

At a time when tens of millions of actual pigs (sensitive, intelligent beings) are being brutalized, tortured, and killed, this sort of thing is absolutely inexcusable. Pigs do not deserve to be "executed"; and we should all stop using "pig" as an insult word. As I write in my book:

2/2 To use a word that means to extend kindness, mercy, or compassion to describe & excuse our needless violent abuse & brutal killing of other sentient animals & to be callously & mercilessly indifferent to their plight is indicative of morally challenged, troubled consciences. #OneBillionScreams

Consuming products derived from the exploitation of non-human animals can never be a neutral act. It makes you complicit in a system built on exploitation, a prison state that confines, tortures and murders billions of innocent beings for profit.

#LanguageMatters ⚖️ The uptick of people using pigs as an insult the last couple of days is disheartening. What may seem like a fair rebuttal to a vile man only serves to insidiously reinforce the idea that these intelligent, empathetic individuals are lesser than. A commodity, an ingredient, a slur.

2/2 Those who have a vested interest in violence are unreceptive to anything that challenges their purpose. No manner of empirical facts, no body of evidence, no ethical or dialectic reasoning will penetrate their prejudice. They’re unwilling to listen or reflect, let alone change.

2/2 Cruelly ripped from my mother at birth & isolated in this tiny prison, every day, every second, I feel abject fear & confusion & a deep yearning for protection, comfort & safety. I rage against my captivity, I call out for my mother, only to be met with violence & your indifference,

For years, the great minds have seen us not like other animals, listing things like language, tool use, reasoning, etc. Denying our animality. All the while, they see “man’s alienation from nature” as the root of many problems today. Reality: We are animals.

To think that we have constructed an entire worldview to entitle us to kill, eat, and enslave our animal cousins… To make us special and supreme above it all… No wonder we’re exterminating, deforesting, and speeding into climate change.

If to be normal is to participate in eternal violence towards those who just happen to have not been born human, which is to abandon ethics & morality itself, which is to abandon our humanity, then there exists an urgent moral imperative to create a new normal. We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

In all your empty justifications, rationalisations, and excuses for inflicting gratuitous cruelty upon me, for stealing my only life, the only perspective that you conveniently & cowardly omit, is the only one of any significance whatsoever, mine. We are #OneBillionScreams

“A society which confines, mutilates & kills billions of animals each year - the same animals whose beauty overwhelms us with awe, whose affection we universally long for, & whose pain & pleasure we feel so deeply - can be neither healthy nor sane” Zipporah Weisberg We are #OneBillionScreams

2/2 Speciesism is the set of ideas that excuse discriminating against nonhuman animals solely because they aren’t human & hence inferior & undeserving of moral consideration. Ethics & science have extensively shown there’s no objective grounding for such a stance. We are #OneBillionScreams

Assigning moral value based on species alone is exactly the bankrupt logic used to justify every form of bigotry and oppression. Be better for everyone's sake.

Facts 💚😄

Human supremacism is a material system of domination requiring continual ideological buttressing. Hence this morally reprehensible piece by science reporter Roni Rabin @nytimes.com--expressing utter, vicious contempt for nonhuman animals' lives and interests. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/h...

For too long we have mercilessly & without justification abused & denied rights to fellow inhabitants of this shared earth, to the point where casual indifference or outright dismissal of their suffering has become our ignominious, ingrained default behaviour #OneBillionScreams

In a nutshell… 1. Domestication of animals. 2. Animal husbandry. 3. Humans learn male role in reproduction. 4. Men get chauvinistic/entitled. 5. Girls/women= sexual property of men. 6. First slavery and sex trafficking. 7. Patriarchy, monotheism, history begins.

They don’t get a choice. You do. Every decision matters.

No other political discourse other than fascism “so completely authorises absolute violence against the weak”. Victoria Johnson When it comes to animal rights, the Left & the Right unite in all out fascism. We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social #ThisIsMyGroundZero

He reinforces their supremacist world views 🔪 🐄 faunalytics.org/prejudice-so...

Living sculpture. Notice also the pool of water held in the crook of this ancient oak on the shores of Kenmare River (bay).

We are not gonna have a better humanity, we are not gonna have a better world until we quit believing that it’s OK and/or necessary to kill animals for our benefit.

1/8 Here’s what has happened: Early-history farmers kept tribal stories of earlier times of their ancestors who were foragers, when food grew on trees, and people moved with the seasons. There were no surpluses. Hence, no wealth. No idea of property or land ownership. Not much to fight over.