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Just letting everyone know (in case you hadn't yet heard) that the swine flu vaccine is made using chicken eggs.
"The government now hopes to have about 50 million doses of swine flu vaccine out by mid-November and 150 million in December. The flu virus has to be grown in chicken eggs, and the yield hasn't been as high as was initially hoped, officials have said."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091024/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_swine_flu
x-posted to Christian Vegans
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| I'm so glad I found this. |
[06 Aug 2009|10:37pm] |
Um, I was going to post a comment to this entry, but then I realized that I had so much to say, it should probably be a full entry. I hope the community isn't as dead as it looks because I REALLY need it right now. I have been struggling with this "progressive or prolife?" identity crisis for SO long. Not only am I vegan, but I am like the most progressive person you'll ever meet. I'm pretty much a communist and I'm sympathetic to ALL human issues as well as animal rights. Of course, animal rights, and fetal rights as I like to call them, are the two most important to me because they have the least support right now.
What bothers me the most is that most of those within the progressive movement are just like the people outside of it. They are so sure that everything they've been fed is morally acceptable, that they don't even question it. A simple google search (an idea I devised through about 5 seconds of critical thinking) on "fetal nervous system development" would be enough to turn any compassionate person's stomach, but nobody does it. They are afraid of what they might find. And that is the biggest problem. Frankly, I'm getting more and more afraid that it's the one we may never be able to overcome. And how animal rights activists fail to see the connection is beyond me.
I think the bottom line here is that you can't make a difference through politics. You just can't. Not for these issues that directly call into question the public's ridiculous hedonism; it's too difficult for a politician on our side to get public support. In fact, that just proves that it's our job. We need to help people understand that life has value. Personally, what I think the only long-term solution would be is altering society's perceptions of women and sexuality. Women's bodies seem to have no purpose but sex; our reproductive systems are "obscene" in nonpornographic contexts; and pregnancy, menstruation, and other aspects of the female life cycle are seen as horrible, unbearable, and something to protect against. As a woman and a feminist, it makes me really angry to see that almost every feminist organization blatantly ignores every one of those issues in a vicious trade off for "KEEP FULL ABORTION RIGHTS FOREVER AND EVER AND ALL THE WOMEN IN THE WORLD WILL BE FREE." God, get a GRIP, right? EVEN if fetuses didn't matter and abortion was a good thing for women, anyone who would call abortion the fundamental women's rights issue, while we still have genital mutilation and sex slavery going on, is a goon.
And are you guys aware that nearly everything the "prochoice" movement spews is a load of garbage? Like, did you know that in the US, there are actually many, many more parents looking to adopt than there are adoptable babies? And that most abused children were fully planned, and abuse has increased since 1973 when abortion was legalized? Or that feminists were originally prolife and the prochoice movement was started by two men? And that their excuse was that, if women wanted equal rights as men (professional, etc.), they couldn't be pregnant? There are so many hidden facts. The deeper I dig, the more it makes me sick. I think it is, just like all animal and human exploitation, another work of Corporate America. The abortion industry is huge. How the hell are we going to begin to overcome this one?
I have read a lot about animal rights, its progression, and its comparison to other rights movements, and they have adequately convinced me that its eventual acceptance is a certainty. However, the prolife movement, which has become smaller and smaller with the advertisements against it, makes me feel extremely insecure. The worst part is that we have science on our side, but they STILL fool everyone into thinking that all prolifers are religious zealots. They have nothing to back up any of their claims, but everyone follows blindly, exactly like a religion. Most people, especially women, even mention that they feel a moral aversion to getting an abortion themselves (much as they do to killing an animal), but they think it's perfectly okay to permit others to do it. You know, it's easy to look into a pig's eyes and see his pain, but none of us can go into a woman's uterus and look into her unborn child's delicate, closed eyes.
Nobody seems to get it, but to me it is absurdly simple:
Sorry for the huge rant and large photo. (For the record, I jacked the photo from a fetal development website for pregnant women.) I sought out to find, like, one more logical person SOMEWHERE on the internet... and I found a whole LJ community. I got excited. I'd love to make some prolife vegan friends, so if anyone reads this at any time and wants to talk outside of LJ, let me know.
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| Some inspiration! |
[05 Feb 2009|10:19pm] |
The world can be a prickly place, so here is some encouragement. We can and DO make a difference!
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’
Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’
Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’
But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ “And there comes a point when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Starfish Story
(author unknown)
Once a man was walking along a beach. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. Off in the distance he could see a person going back and forth between the surf's edge and and the beach. Back and forth this person went. As the man approached he could see that there were hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as the result of the natural action of the tide. The man was stuck by the the apparent futility of the task. There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to perish. As he approached the person continued the task of picking up starfish one by one and throwing them into the surf. As he came up to the person he said, "You must be crazy. There are thousands of miles of beach covered with starfish. You can't possibly make a difference." The person looked at the man. He then stooped down and pick up one more starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said, "It sure made a difference to that one!"
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| Just wanted to say... |
[20 Apr 2008|06:53pm] |
Wow! I can't believe I actually found a group that is dedicated to Veganism and Pro-life! I thought I was the only person on this planet that thought like that! (maybe except a really good friend...)
Go people!
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| Help a Pro-Life Film-Maker - Vote for His Film! |
[07 Dec 2007|03:41pm] |
Hi everyone, I’d really like all pro-lifers here to support a pro-life documentary maker who is also a good friend of mine, John Hetherington. He’s been working on a documentary that I think could easily become the Inconvenient Truth of abortion. He’s already interviewed prominent pro-life and pro-choice figures – including Canadian figures Joyce Arthur and Dr Henry Morgentaler. This film could be BIG.
John is currently entered in a short film competition which if he wins would give him an internship in England with Academy Award Winner David Parfitt and the Trademark Films Production Team…. Imagine how that could boost his odds of having his documentary recognized on a wide scale – and getting our message out there!
So here’s what I need ALL of you to do: Go to http://shortfilm.projectbreakout.com and register so that you can vote. Then find ‘A Word on the Street’ by John Hetherington and vote for it. (http://shortfilm.projectbreakout.com/media_page/entry_id/45)
You can vote for it 15 times per day – EVERY DAY!
John is currently hanging around 5th and 6th place but in order to pull into the top three (top 3 per week move into the finals), he has to have at least 50 to 60 people who vote 15 times every day. Please be one of them and pass this on to ALL your pro-life contacts and pro-life friends. Let’s make this happen and help our pro-life brother give voice to the voiceless!
(To see more ‘A Word on the Street’ videos (his precursor series of cross-country street interviews), go to www.youtube.com/abortedartist )
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| Animal Abuse in Ukraine |
[02 Nov 2007|07:01pm] |
www.MatesMaster.com friends and romance network, the site which is constantly involved in Animal Welfare programs, joins forces with Kiev City Society for the Protection of Animals in protest to the inhumane treatment of animals, abuse and cruelty in Ukraine.
About 156,000 stray cats and dogs are annually hurt, abused and killed in Ukrainian citiesand towns. When caught by the dog catchers, some stray animals are used forpainful experiments.
Stray dogs are often bludgeoned or put to death by electricity or caught using an inhumane poison and sometimes die slow, painful deaths. Instead of putting an animal to sleep with the use of euthanasia (i.e. the act of killing an animal painlessly), the animal service uses dithylinum (suxamethonium chloride), a poison which paralyzes the animal and causes it to die of suffocation in a few hours of agony. There is ample evidence that the poor creatures are still conscious and feel all the pain before they die. It is often the case that animals are beaten with legs and metal sticks, whereupon they are buried or burned alive.
Lots of people witnessed animals being tortured and murdered - little kittens tied up in plastic bags and thrown in the river, people intentionally run stray pets over with their cars, newly born puppies dumped on vacant land without their mother and left them to die.
Stories are endless and make hearts of every Human Being bleed.
Authorities of small Ukrainian communities for ever used and are still using different kind of poison - rat poison and recently they "discovered" a new method of killing stray animals - Isoniazidum (Tubazidum) anti-tuberculosis drug causing cheap, but very slow and painful death
more information is available here: www.MatesMaster.com/petrescue.html
To sign a petition to Ukrainian government, please, go to
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-slaughtering-stray-animals-in-ukraine
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[23 Sep 2007|10:38pm] |
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Anyone else feel the same? Being a pro-life vegan makes sense, but at the same time puts me in a rather odd position. Politically, my views are split pretty down the middle. I am having a hard time finding a party that fits my values.
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| Wellness Community |
[11 Nov 2006|09:16am] |
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Life Dynamix Wellness Community
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To Magic & Possibilities!
STEVEN
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| Unborn children rights and animal rights |
[28 Aug 2006|04:02am] |
This is an article comparing the animal rights activism and the pro-life movement. From my point of view, a pro-abortion animal rights activist is an hypocrite. I don't eat meat and fish because I don't want to kill animals, I won't have sex until I can face the possibility of being a father because I don't want to cause the death of an unborn human being. In both cases my responsibility is indirect, but in any commissioned murder the person who pays the killer is as responsible as the person who fires the gun.
This is the article:
( Read more... )
x-posted to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) feminists4life
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| The position of pro-life anarchism |
[03 Jul 2006|04:55pm] |
Maybe you have alredy read this, anyway this is a discussion about anarchist politics and abortion from a pro-life point of view.
http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/gregory/gregory7.html
I must say that a pro-life feminist politics would be more effective in reducing the total numer of abortions (legal+illegal ones) then this anarchist politics, for the simple reason that an anarchist society requires a high level of moral perfection, and people make mistakes and sins, so it's very difficult to live always to the required perfect level of ethical behaviour. A truly anarchist society is possible, I belive in it, but must be made of saints.
x-posted to feminists4life and democrats4life
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