Marv Wheale is a retiree living in Vancouver and longtime social justice advocate. Wheale was active with Liberation VC, a local vegan animal rights group which involved public engagement, and has been a leading contributor to Vegan Feminist Network for … Continue reading
That the majority of males and females designated at birth remain uncritical of structurally hetero male supremacist organized gendering because they are politically habituated to it certainly implies it has nothing to do with personal failure. No individual is to blame for their socialization, but with liberatory knowledge comes an obligation for men to take collective action for renewal.
Vegans, too, who have the advantage of knowing how social conditioning created institutionalized speciesism, are prone to gender conformity training as much as nonvegans. Continue reading
Nation-states in many regions of the globe were founded and controlled by abled, white male powerholders on Indigenous peoples’ and animals’ lands. Continue reading
For at least several reasons, the state by its very creation is not a neutral mediator that can be swung in any direction. For one thing, it has often formed from the theft of Indigenous peoples’ land subordinating their authority in political decision-making. Second, the state is integral to reproducing capitalism and with it, the cultural customs of meat, dairy, eggs, and other animal uses no matter which political party is elected. More, the state is a male fabrication that depends on controlling women’s bodies to populate the nation and sustain capitalism by giving birth and providing childcare to prepare future workers for the citizenry and economy. Continue reading
A Guaranteed Livable Income, regardless of employment or unemployment status, (also known as Universal Basic Income) is rapidly gaining social approval in dozens of countries. It could be a way of allocating the redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor, through taxation. And it has the potential to reduce harm to nature. There is already enough wealth in the world economy to meet everyone’s needs without more earth-damaging growth in economic output. Continue reading
By Marv Wheale Is religious veganism a truth-informed disposition? Vegans of theological persuasion feel that the speciesism of their faith traditions can be uprooted by educating nonvegan members about veganism and by appealing to spiritual teachings on compassion and mercy. … Continue reading
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