Testify! part 6 of 9

Eco Defense and the Politics of Violence

A film by Stephen Gamboa and Michael Becker

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Radical
• Environmentalism

[gyrate4]

@ElectricMayhem87 Good points. Man isn't a natural predator. Real predators never acquire arteriosclerosis, and it's the leading killer of american humans.

Someone will say, "well it's because our diet, as a whole, is unhealthy, not because of meat." The Inuits eat as natural as you can, and their 3rd leading cause of death, after suicide and lung disease, is heart disease.

Man is not a predator, despite what sociopathic hunters want to think.

[gyrate4]

If you live in a home and drive a car, you are not a part of nature. Humans aren't predators like you sociopathic hunters want to think. Real predators are never acquire arteriosclerosis. Rabbits fed meat do---humans do.

Heart disease is the leading killer of Americans.

[LiteraryWriter]

@ElectricMayhem87 I have to go now. Maybe we'll meet again. Drop by my YouTube account and say hello sometime. Like I say, I passionately disagree with you, but I like you as a person. Click on LiteraryWriter at the bottom of a post and drop by. All the best!

[LiteraryWriter]

@ElectricMayhem87 It was nice to meet you, by the way. Thank you for the spirited conversation.

[LiteraryWriter]

@ElectricMayhem87 I feel a tremendous aversion for all religions, including Buddhism, but I am a passionate supporter of freedom of conscience and religion.

[LiteraryWriter]

@ElectricMayhem87 By the way, I am a vocal supporter of human rights for all people: Muslims, homosexuals, bisexuals, the Ku Klux Klan, black people, the Hell's Angels, animal rights people - all people, in my world, have the right to freely express themselves, to associate and to assemble.

[LiteraryWriter]

I agree about the enslavement of the earth. The earth has been raped. Hunting, however, is the ultimate renewable resource. Seal fur can be harvested sustainably year after year, but coats you wear are made through the massive use of dangerous and finite fossil fuels, most likely.

[LiteraryWriter]

@ElectricMayhem87 And I'll tell you why the animal rights movement is a manifestation of arrogance. Because it is a European-driven sensibility in which man is separate from nature. Man is not part of nature, man is on a higher plane than nature, a caretaker. That is the contradiction. Think of indigenous societies: Inuit, African tribes, etc. - they all hunt; it is inconceivable not to hunt. Animal rights was born out of a mindset in which man is beyond nature, a demigod.

[ElectricMayhem87]

@LiteraryWriter I'd say the way human beings have enslaved the earth and the animals reeks of arrogance.

[LiteraryWriter]

@ElectricMayhem87 I care about insects, plants and animals almost equally. For me there is a clear and definitive line between humans and all other forms of life. If I swat a mosquito I have not committed murder, for instance. If I eat an apple, I have not committed cannibalism, but in the animal rights ideology, if a person eats a burger, that is cannibalism because there is no appreciable difference between man and animal. To me that is insane and a manifestation of absolute arrogance.