If folk want to do anything then you wouldn't go far wrong by starting to harass the fuck out of your local Indonesian embassy. The UK one is...
Que? Do I actually have to explain this? http://libcom.org/library/social-anarch ... y-bookchin
The point I was making was that meat isn't an addictive product. Speaking as someone who has experienced addiction I know what withdrawal symptoms...
You're not. You're changing your diet. Well it is a lifestyle choice. Lifestyle choices are not radical nor revolutionary, no matter how warm and...
Having known more than a few butchers, farmers and slaughtermen I can't recall any of them complaining about their nails falling out. I think you...
Well done for missing the point.
That's a problem with capitalism not a dietary choice. Workers in all industries are treated like shit, you can't boycott them all. Plus, as I...
No it's not don't be bloody ridiculous. I was vegetarian/vegan for ages and now I'm a meat eater. I don't eat a lot. I don't get cravings. It's...
Re: good jobs for anarchist? Well it depends what you can, and what you want to, do. If you want to do something you're good at then go for it....
How is it like listening to smokers trying to defend smoking? There is nothing inherently unhealthy about eating meat. There are problems with...
Jesus wept, are you even self aware? Your choice of diet is a lifestyle choice you tool, same as the clothes you wear, the way you live. It is...
Meat is not shite. Shitty processed meat is shite but a prime cut of venison or a lincolnshire sausage are not shite. Meat is/can be a part of a...
Boycott's don't work and never have. The most wide spread commercial boycott has to be the Nestle boycott over their practices in Africa. This has...
I've drunk a couple of bottles of wine so probab;y not the best time to answer. Basically I looked at why I was vegan and came to the conclusion...
I'm a massive sci-fi geek whether it be TV shows, films or books. When it comes to books I think my favorite author right now is Iain M Banks. His...
Don't talk bollocks you self righteous numpty. Anarchism and dietary choices have fuck all to do with one another. Anarchism is about class...
I used to be vegan and found having a couple of cook books around was helpful. Soy not Oi! http://www.akpress.org/1996/items/soynotoi Please Feed...
Sorry to veer off-topic and that but there are National 'Anarchists' in San Francisco/the Bay Area as well. The thing I find most amusing about...
You'll find some cracking advice on Libcom. http://libcom.org/organise
See the whole idea of a revolution? This is one of the many reasons we need one, to ensure that as sciece and technology provide ever more...
Anom, your subjective experience isn't a good enough reason for veganism to be honest. Not having a go but when people go vegan they generally...
So you would refuse medical care on the basis that the treatment was developed through 'torture'?
SO finding medicines to help degenerative disorders is of no social value? Studying the mechanism that govern the functioning of cells in order to...
Ex-member too. :D If all us ex-swappies banded together we would be unstoppable! ;) I've had conversations with regards socialism in one country...
ASA what the fuck is that meant to mean? I mean is it even English?
That's not really the case. The Socialist Workers Party, the largest Trotskyist party in the UK, believe in socialism in one country and...
For an example of 'anarcho' capitalism see Somalia, that's not a world I want to live in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy_in_Somalia
What NGNM85 said ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ which is pretty much what I have been trying to say on the other thread but s/he puts it much...
So what exactly says we don't have the right to treat other species like shit? What all encompassing over arching morality is it that means we...
It's an oxymoron. (Oi! Oi! :woohoo: ) It's basically lassaiz fair capitalism with a 'trendy' moniker. LIke 'anarcho-nationalism' it's the same...
Tool use involves manufacturing specialist tools for specific purposes, knives, axes, spades etc... not making nests. We do see nascent tool use...
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Cheers for the reference, is that a journal I can find through Jstor? I was talking about Llamas, not apes by the way.
intelligence: Aye which is why I do oppose the use of great apes in vivisection/experimentation. Tool use: Again with the primates its only the...
I sorry but unless you can furnish me with some kind of proof I'm not going to believe that a llama can feel angst, or trepidation or sorrow.
Those 'anarchos' aren't anarchists, they're hippies. Just cos they were bullet belts and listen to Aus-Rotten doesn't stop them from being hippies.
pip, mate, you're talking mince. You have the right to be offended at people mocking your delusion but you don't have the right to NOT be offended.
I can't remember the last time that a chimp make startling discoveries about how the universe began, cured cancer, built a network of computers...
a) I was being flippant but you were doing so. Also the comparing of the holocaust to the meat industry is abhorrent and just plain factually...
Are you saying black people and Jews are the same as dogs? /flippancy The thing is that we ARE different from other animals, the mere fact that we...
The many stories that fit perfectly well with NDE being a form of lucid dreaming?
Yes they do really exist and one human life is worth far more than any amount of animals. That we should minimise the suffering of animals used in...
Anarchism is a political ideology, not hippy shit.
Anom: I was making a point that a dietary choice isn't actually anti-capitalist in any way shape or form other than aesthetically. Nor is the...
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You're not making sense ASA, everybody is an anarchist? How so? Most people are obviously NOT anarchists and many follow ideologies that conflict...
Sorry ASA I don't follow you. Are you saying that Proudhon wasn't the first person to declare himself an anarchist? That was the start of...
The government also makes a lot of money from the soya industry, lets smash soya!
Are you referring to my response regarding artisans? The difference is that an artisan is what would be referred to today as a tradesman, a...
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