Bob Moran: cartoonist, freedom fighter, father; & Earthlings documentary, trauma warning.
Video link to an interview with Bob Moran, and a documentary about humans treatment of other species - other Earthlings.
Bob Moran is a cartoonist who lost his job with Telegraph/UK after ten years there, because of Tweeting against CoV policies. He advocates for children being able to enjoy the freedom that they can, from a perspective of a dad of a Special Needs child. Yes, she has more risk than others, but she does every day anyway and CoV didn’t really change that. She needs to enjoy life too - without masks that don't work, social distancing that doesn't work or Lockdowns that don't work (or DoD bioweapons that don’t work against CoV either). https://www.bitchute.com/video/2khglS4NVmtn/
Marginally related video, link below - how humans treat animals says a lot about how humans might treat other humans too. Trauma alert- the following documentary, Earthlings, is extremely graphic, horrific, and we should all watch it anyway, because we are all complicit at some level in the abuse of life on Earth, either directly in mistreatment at industrial levels, or in polluting of the ecosystem in which other species have to swim and breathe or crawl.
Apparently, it is age-restricted, and for very good reasons. I cried. It is horrific. And that in itself is enlightening - humans can treat humans similarly to how animals are treated by humans, but to a lesser extent on average.
Medical patients are expected to just go along with poking, prodding, tethering, medicating, surgery interventions - like cogs on a factory conveyor belt. Urban cities are a little too much like cattle stockyards - but both vary a lot. Some cities have nice green spaces and others are concrete and fencing.
In my travels I saw and smelled very overcrowded stockyards, and larger nicer stockyards in other areas, and even a few pastoral fields with a few shade trees and river, in Oklahoma which also had more barren fields. California and some other western states had some very large crowded stockyards and the surrounding region will smell bad for a while along the highway.
I grew up with small farmers in my extended family. Dairy cows were let out to graze all day and brought in to the barn to be milked in the morning and evening. It was a small farm producing a smallish amount of milk, for consumer sale - which equals a lot of milk in a huge vat to a little kid looking around. The cows were well cared for and predated some of the medical treatments that are given to force dairy cows to produce in even greater excess. It wears out the animals bones -tooo depleting.
Stewardship is living within the renewable boundaries of an ecosystem. The better farm techniques from indigenous peoples incorporate mixed species that benefit each other in a balanced mini-ecosystem, instead of overcrowding one species which leads to more infection and injury risk.
The documentary is four years old so some people may have seen it. It is not easy viewing.
The video was shared with me in response to my reposting this meme:
Who besides everyone should try to watch the Earthlings documentary? Farmers in India who want to sell their older cow to a good old cow home. Don't believe it anymore than old racehorse homes that end up at glue factories. The sacred cows in India end up being painfully transported to a region that allows slaughter of cattle and there is dehydration and starvation along the way too. The skins are removed after slaughter and make up the majority of international leather apparel.
We like to believe there is an old age cow farm taking care of the sacred cows - but in capitalism there is a profit motive that tends to always win.
We use animals as pets and for food, clothing, entertainment and medical research - the documentary is divided into those five sections with minimal time left at the end to show the atrocities of animal medical research but it is included, also horrific.
Humans may take comfort in some weird founded belief that animals don't feel pain the same because they are less intelligent than humans. It seems unintelligent to me to believe that. Nature loves a good design. We are very, very, very, very, very similar to other life on Earth. Even bananas have genes in common with us - 60% similar, but largely noncoding genes. Human science does not know why we have so many genes that don'tseem to do anything.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/comparing-genetic-similarities-of-various-life-forms/#:~:text=DNA%20vs%20Genes&text=That's%20because%20genes%20(the%20part,of%20our%20DNA%20is%20shared.
When capitalism is like a locust, than capitalists are like locusts.
Humans are like locusts, just to be clear.
That is a bad thing.
Sustainability was a created word for political reasons I learned recently, but it is a good concept. The Inuit people developed a fish hook for catching a very large breed of fish at just the right age and size that it would let both young ones go and big parent ones go. The young need to grow and have babies and the old would swamp a canoe and also could still have babies.
Life is sacred because it needs to go on, to continue the next season, and next. When we kill all the mothers there are no more babies - unless factory-produced insemination is the goal for all life on Earth.
Humane humans recognize the suffering and the love in other animals.
And may also mistake a predator's attention as love. Wildlife is wild.
Story I saw in a Tweet:
Woman asks her Veterinarian why had her boa constrictor stopped eating? She had tried everything, no success. Is it sick?
Vet asks if she sleeps with the 7-foot-long snake at night. Answer - “Yes.”
Vet says, “The snake is getting ready to eat you. They will stop eating in preparation for a large meal.”
» That is News to Use. It may be fiction, I have no idea 😅 😕 😬
We have similarities with other animals but should also try to avoid thinking animals are just like humans.
Human atrocity against humans, by the US:
Mercenaries for oil.
Taking the blinders off may leave an unpleasant view, but reality is what we have - not a fantasy of sacred cow farms for old age cows.
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Our government has been doing this all over the planet and we, the people, turned a blind eye or bought into the fallacy that we were somehow helping them. Now we are imperiled by the same government. We saw them doing this all over the world- we just didn’t think they would do it to us.
Brand new to your stack. I am incredibly relieved and grateful that you are shining a light on humans' dark treatment of non-human beings.