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Raising awareness for wild animals 🐰🦦🦎🐟🦔 ''Unseen they suffer. Unheard they cry. In agony they linger. In loneliness they die.''
Joined January 2023
As a society, we have a duty to develop responsible, evidence-based approaches to intervene in nature in order to improve the welfare of wild animals. No one deserves to endure being eaten alive, dying slowly from disease, parasites, or starvation. We can and must change nature.
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“I suggest investing in the research and development of the technology required to safely help wild animals on a large scale.” - Gary O’Brien
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Suffering's source doesn't diminish its moral urgency, whether it arises from human actions, other animals, or events like accidents or weather. What matters is that someone is suffering, regardless of the "how." The victim doesn't care about WHAT is harming it, just that it is.
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As technological development continues to progress it’s going to become increasingly feasible to systematically help wild animals avoid natural harms. Predation abolition may be later in this process, but it might be inevitable.
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@e_philalethes @artydragoon @asheuriii Sentient beings shouldn't harm each other. Population sizes are currently regulated by the horrors of starvation & predation. Herbivorization & cross-species fertility regulation by tunable CRISPR-based synthetic gene drives offer a civilized alternative: https://t.co/Sav5Y22Mg7
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@ProudSpeciesist @baselessassert Of course that should be the long-term goal. It's not within our power right now, but unless we destroy ourselves (a very real possibility) we will inevitably progress technologically to the point where whether or not to phase out predation from the biosphere will be a choice.
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@biolenin1sm @asheuriii Lmao that’s just retarded. Being anti-predation doesn’t entail extinctionism. And if you’re going to claim that it’s impossible to abolish predation while maintaining a functioning biosphere, the burden of proof is on you to name the law of logic or physics that would be violated
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Pro-predation ‘vegans’ are just carnists with extra steps. Not only humans and our companion animals should be veganized. All animals should! Nobody should live in fear of being murdered to be someone else’s meal. Predation abolition is the inevitable conclusion of vegan ethics
This instagram vegan posted that vegans should feed their cats a vegan diet and i commented that all predatory animals should be herbivorized and she’s arguing w me now?? Im so confused
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@biolenin1sm @asheuriii Every time I ask people to give me empirics to support this notion that ecosystems require predation, I get sent some bullshit about Yellowstone National Park and the best available data from that experiment contradicts the claim. Can someone please give me some evidence that
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“the debate on the problem of predation for animal ethics remains alive and seems destined to significantly develop in the years ahead” - Cormier and Rossi (2024)
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Modern science has value in nature back-to-front. Animal welfare is more important than anything else in nature. Populations, taxa, biomes, ecosystems cannot experience anything and don’t value anything. But individual animals can suffer and value their welfare and lives.
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Almost everyone accepts that nature is brutal, and we as a species have escaped much of that brutality. But few seem to be open to helping other species escape. This will likely change this century as technology makes doing so feasible.
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These normie 'vegans' pmo. Women rights aren't exclusively protection from men. Black rights aren't exclusively protection from white people Why is that when it comes to animal rights, they're thought to be exclusive to protection from humans? Insanely dumb people.
@Appoota @plantmuncherr Nope. The only relevant rights are the rights of animals to be free from exploitation and harm from humans. You’d be violating that if you killed some animals, supposedly to spare others (and not even succeeding). Take vegan out of your bio because you are absolutely not one.
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Yes, it is absolutely wrong for lions to kill and eat innocent sentient beings too. #AbolishPredation And you’re a vegetarian? Gross! #GoVegan
@sibaburck Look, I’m a vegetarian, but the problem with your argument is that if you claim “it’s wrong to eat meat,” you have to apply that moral standard consistently across all animals. So, is it wrong for a lion to eat meat?
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We wiped out smallpox nearly half a century ago. We eradicated rabies in wild animals in certain regions. With modern technology, we can help wild animals by eliminating many other painful diseases. https://t.co/eCWb4s2umh
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@cryptocatcallz @NothingIsArt You're looking at this from the wrong lens. Think of the victim instead of the perpetrator. Why should we not help them when they're suffering just because their perpetrator isn't a moral agent? We don't use that argument for humans in pain.
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The future belongs to those who refuse to accept suffering as destiny.
Cancer, aging and death don't give life meaning. It's our enemy, wake up.
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