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Post by pieter on Dec 8, 2018 12:24:31 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Dec 8, 2018 12:32:34 GMT -7
VeganKanalGepubliceerd op 13 sep. 2018The animal movement needs all the allies it can get. Bringing more people into the movement is crucial, and one of the strategies of doing this can be to connect movements, and involve those people who are already activists in other areas and whose talent and expertise would be useful for animals. This presentation aims to show how I have used these tactics to involve the feminist movement in Poland in the struggle for greater respect for animals. By showing what arguments I have used to convince prominent feminists and regular activists to join the fight for animals, I can hopefully inspire women from other countries to do the same, or activists from other countries to explore how they can connect more movements. I will present the talk I usually give to feminist audiences.---- Who is Karolina Skowron?Karolina Skowron is the Corporate Outreach Director at Fundacja Alberta Schweitzera (https://www.schweitzer.pl/), which is part of the Albert Schweitzer Foundation, and runs a dedicated team of women who have convinced almost 30 big companies to go cage-free for laying hens within just one year from the startup of the Polish office. She has a degree in sociology at The London School of Economics and has studied Global Diplomacy at SOAS in London, where she specialized in strategy, social movements, and the art of negotiation. Karolina is a lifelong, politically engaged activist, involved in the animal, feminist and LGBTQ movements. In order to enlarge and enrich the animal advocacy circle, she successfully connects these movements and speaks to feminists about animal rights/welfare and why they should get involved. She is the founder and coordinator of the Animal Center during the Women`s Congress, the biggest Polish social movement. She uses everything she has learned in previous jobs in the media and international corporations to be the best possible advocate for animals in business, politics, and the media.  " Empathy is a quality – or perhaps even an art – which has an amazing ability to grow, broaden and include more groups." Animal advocate and feminist, Karolina Skowron
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Post by karl on Dec 8, 2018 18:36:37 GMT -7
Pieter
It is good to present this so people as they shop for meat in the market know and understand the process that is the slaughter house. We must eat, and these raised animals are our source of food and for some thing to live, some thing must die.
It is though the manner these animals are killed that matter. It always should be humane and no other.
To be honest, my self would not bring to bear to watch the video of animals being forced in to the slaughter house they would never come out alive. Just too much for me at this time.
Karl
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Post by Jaga on Dec 8, 2018 21:28:19 GMT -7
Pieter,
very sad. It is hard to watch.... I guess I should become a vegetarian, since i think situation like that happen more often than we think, not only in Poland.
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Post by pieter on Dec 9, 2018 0:50:49 GMT -7
You are right, the same abuse or bad treatment of animals takes place by some bad farmers (a minoroty, but still they exist) and at bad butchers hands in slaughterhouses in the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
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Post by Jaga on Dec 10, 2018 23:01:08 GMT -7
Pieter, too hard to watch  |
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Post by pieter on Dec 11, 2018 16:12:02 GMT -7
Jaga and Karl,
That's why in the Netherlands and other West-Europeans many people became and become vegetarians and vegans. That's why the Party for Animals gained succes and has 2 people in the Senate and 3 people in the House of Representatives.
The Party for the Animals (PvdD) is an animal rights party, which can be labeled as a one issue-party, though it claims not to be. The focus of the party is on animal welfare, protecting the environment and conservation. The party also has distinctive points of view about education, privacy, health care and the economy. Its founder and leader is Marianne Thieme.
The "PvdD" is the first political party in the world to gain parliamentary seats with an agenda focused primarily on animal rights.
One of the results that the PvdD claims to have reached during its first four-year parliamentary period is the fact that the government has declared that reduction of national meat consumption further on is one of its priorities.
The Party for Animals welcomed its 10,000th member in late 2009.
Next to the Party for Animals we have supermarkets selling eco friendly products like Odin and Ekoplaza.
Cheers,
Pieter
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Post by karl on Dec 11, 2018 16:37:52 GMT -7
Pieter
Thank you for presenting the best chapter of this life book. It helps my conscience that there is a party such as The PvdD representing animal rights..
I do detest activist, but, and my self am not changing horses in mid stream by saying this, I am very pro-life both human and animal. It seems that as the personal years advance {speaking at least for my self} I become more sensitive to life and appreciative. For life has one time only to savour the sweetness of living and once that is gone, death is the final victor.
Karl
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