Word: nonhumans
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...brick that goes up," says Sofia Bains, 24, a fitness instructor and animal-rights activist. "Even if the building gets started, it will never get finished." The Cambridge lab dispute is just the latest front in the animal-rights movement's increasingly sophisticated battle to stop the use of nonhuman primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, rodents and other creatures in scientific and medical research. Without the new lab, its proponents say, the university's world-class neuroscientists will have difficulty staying on the cutting edge of research. But activists fear that this patch of English countryside will soon become the vivisection...
...dogs, pigs or monkeys. None is for use in cosmetic products. While much of the vivisection debate focuses on dogs, cats and monkeys - animals that are either popular human companions or more like us than fish and mice - British statistics for 2002 show that dogs, cats, horses and nonhuman primates were collectively used in less than 1% of the 2.73 million new scientific procedures carried out in the country. The number of new procedures was up by 100,000 - 4.2% - over 2001, and an overwhelming 84% of them involved mice, rats and other rodents, 7% fish, 5% birds...
...cigar only a cigar and an asparagus only an asparagus? Most people aren’t willing to look at things other than how we have been trained to look at them. Images that are in our face naturalize oppression, and re-enforce dominance by animalizing women and feminizing nonhuman animals—serving them both up as consumable...
...Turkey Hooker,” animals’ suffering is made into sexualized fun. With anthropornography the inequality of species conveys the inequality of gender; desire hides dominance. While vegetarians, vegans and animal activists are accused of anthropomorphizing animals—of projecting human qualities onto nonhuman animals—it seems that really it is meat eaters and anthropornographers who do this. Animal activists know that animals are like human beings because human beings are animals. “Animorphs,” through its sympathetic magic theme, suggests this truth...
Pedestals always work in a pinch. Heels, as I point out in The Pornography of Meat, damage the spine. I’m interested in getting humans to stop viewing nonhuman animals as theirs to use, eat, experiment upon or wear. It’s curious how dependent humans are for their self-conceptualization on the existence of animals as the opposite, as lower, as the dominated ones, as the edible ones...