G.GARRARD wrote:
>
> Dear Stephen,
> The reason veggie issue keeps coming up is because there -appears- to
> be neat homology between animal exploitation and sexism. The are
> certainly area of -analogy-, but the identical character usually
> claimed is an insult to feminism (I think) and a total
> misunderstanding of animals which are not humans or
> near-enough-humans but different species with different needs, etc.
> So the answer is, feminism has little disntinctive to add on the
> subject of real-world farming practices, because the latter is an
> ethical and political discourse and the latter largely practical
> (although of course ethically informed at a certain level). You may
> as well ask how animal rights relates to plumbing.
Actually, the reason I draw a correlation between feminism and animal
rights is because of the marketing of fur to -womyn-, the treatment of
-cows- in the production of -milk- (taken from calves), artificially
inseminating cows for the production of more milk, the frequent
reference towards womyn as a "piece of meat," the portrayal of womyn on
covers on popular porno magazines, such as showing a naked womon going through
a meat grinder and being turned into ground beef, or a naked womon laying on
a lifesize hamburger bun (with tomato and lettuce) and her legs spread wide.
Yes, IMHO there -is- a link between animal rights and feminism. But that is
only my opinion.
--
- Charlotte Sullivan
Executive Director
Protect Animal Life
"PEACE AND FREEDOM FOR ALL WHO LIVE"
