Animal Law

Lee Hall JD LLM • they/them/Lee's • Studio for the Art of Animal Liberation • environment and climate ethics • respect for migrants • peace

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

Can we reject the master species role? Could a transformed human identity release us, and every other community still evolving on Earth, from this spiral of ever-worsening emergencies? The time we live in cries out for a paradigm shift. I'd love to find out what #veganism can do.

[Always for Animal Rights @alwaysforar]

Episode 99 of Always for Animal Rights features my second interview with the vegan author and public speaker, Lee Hall @VeganPlace @Animal_Law . We discuss vegan ethics and history, being vegan in a non-vegan world, and what it means to re-wild ourselves. https://t.co/mokjXUcko0

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

Thanks for the poll responses with escape plans.💙 Looks like we’ll be skipping Spoutible, heading to Bluesky. I’ll be looking for you, friends, at https://t.co/823xodfbp1. I’m also at Mastodon: @[email protected]. And conferences, progressive media, journals, and the streets!

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

@RileyTChiweenie @Paul_Vegano I appreciate a lot of things people do on TikTok yet can’t really imagine expressing myself through it, but I try to stay open to persuasion.

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

Where next?

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

@Natalia31296989 Thank you for your thoughts, and I hope you'll think about this more. The pet industry—an industry it is—came into being relatively recently and it’s not unshakable. Lately, municipal bans on pet sales are being proposed. They can lay the groundwork for ending breeding and sales.

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

Animal law is no substitute for #veganism. Human laws define nonhuman beings as natural resources, lab models, food, tools, guards, pets; as therapeutic, as entertaining...all for us. Blocking our perception of them as beings who could've had their own interests, their own lives.

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

Veganism is a principle and we don't water it down. We try to avoid harming and manipulating all conscious beings. We do our best to work for an Earth where living beings are enabled to thrive in their ways. We didn't say it was easy. And if we did, maybe we need to rethink that.

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

`This research reveals that our rivers and waterways are plagued by a cocktail of neonicotinoid pesticides, despite these chemicals being banned since 2018.'

[Guardian Environment @guardianeco]

Bee-killing pesticides banned in EU found at unsafe levels in English rivers https://t.co/CKdryjING4

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

As it all unravels, ecological realities make it ever clearer that animal agribusiness is unsustainable, full stop. Why wait for the most extreme loss and ruin before we get a grip on ourselves, stop being so hedonistic and selfish, and change our lives for the better?

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

@Natalia31296989 Pets had free-living ancestors. They were selectively bred into forms that please us. Who do we think we are? They are forever deprived of life on nature's terms.

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

Industrial, lab-based, backyard, `regenerative'...All animal ag needs to stop. For the sake of the climate, for human health and dignity and food security, in respect for untamed lands, for the freedom of others not to be purpose-bred, not to be deprived of their own evolution.

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

Sharing for those who feel the way I do when it's time to comment to the National Park Service. Don't be daunted or think your thoughts don't matter. Your thoughts matter, and the Service needs to hear from ethical people as much as possible.

[In Defense Of Animals @IDAUSA]

Right now you can help free the captive #TuleElk of CA's #PointReyes Nat’l Seashore from an infamous, deadly fence. The Nat'l Park Service wants YOUR Public Comment. Read @UnChainedTV story & make your comment to free the Tule elk: https://t.co/engdYyT3CK

https://t.co/AIdKG7BCug

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

What is the fallacy name for pointing to a fallacy and thinking your argument's over? A quick search shows it's a named thing, and it's called the fallacy fallacy.

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

Animal husbandry compromises are not welfare. Long ago, I stopped calling them welfare or welfarism, because if it's done by a company that profits off animals' lives, it's just a husbandry adjustment, likely to be turned into a selling point. Not welfare. Sanctuaries do welfare.

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

By refusing to co-operate with the system that commodifies other animals, we personally exercise direct power to spare animals from being brought into that commodified existence.

[Jamie Woodhouse @JamieWoodhouse]

Has the #ClimateCrisis got bad enough for us to change what we eat yet?

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

Humane.Natural.Regenerative...As if the new edition of animal agribusiness is better than the last. Ten-thousand-plus years of forcing other animals, whose ancestors were free beings, to submit to us. What'll you have? The human primates' war on others—or conscientious objection?

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

Veganism is not strategic analysis. It is a commitment to fairness, to a new way of being human. By sticking to our commitment (`as far as possible and practicable'), our lives demonstrate the potential for our ethical ideas to become plausible.

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

@kwalee @newfxfs @WildmenderGame @RnfrstAlliance There's no need to encourage a handsy approach to frogs to create respect. The contrary is true. The crux of the learning should call on us to leave them space and let them be.

[Animal Law @Animal_Law]

@MartinWeek47113 🍻