"Animal rights is a social justice issue now" - Fashion Activist Bel Jacobs - Sentientism Ep: 140 скачать в хорошем качестве

"Animal rights is a social justice issue now" - Fashion Activist Bel Jacobs - Sentientism Ep: 140

Between 1999 & 2014, Bel (https://sentientism.info/sentientist-...) was Style Editor for Metro. The fall of Rana Plaza in 2013 forced a re-assessment; today, she is a writer, speaker & activist with a focus on animal rights, the climate emergency & the toxic fashion system. Bel has taken part in & moderated numerous panels for brands & organisations & has been interviewed about her work in activism, alternative systems in fashion & culture change. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The audio is on our Podcast: https://apple.co/391khQO & https://anchor.fm/sentientism. We discuss: 00:00 Welcome 01:48 Bel's Intro ‪@beljacobs9263‬ Journalism, fashion editor, social & animal justice activism "The world of fashion sucks you in" Co-founding The Islington Climate Centre & running The Empathy Project 04:19 What's Real? (I mis-spoke & asked "what matters?" - sorry!) Growing up in #hongkong ... rich, vibrant, urban "Really loving animals" first companion animal at 3 "they were these beautiful things" Stray animals & wet markets "but no one talked about it" Food "a very big deal in that culture"... valuing the exotic e.g. suckling pig / turtle soup "At least they were honest... there was no pretense at compassion" "I tucked in because everyone else tucked in" "I held this love of animals whilst eating them for a very long time" Growing up "broadly agnostic" with a Jewish father & a mother who moved through various religions Saying the Lord's Prayer every morning at school "I just couldn't correlate why there were so many sad things happening & god didn't seem to be very active in sorting it out" Coming to #spirituality through "the extent of the suffering... abuse... cruelty"... "I could not rationalise it" "I'm going to drive my love to them through thought & visualisation & #meditation " "My god is the natural world" "Animals are the sentient representations of nature" "I do like to get my hands in the soil" 19:34 What Matters? "Religions are man made constructions... constructed in times long gone... by powerful men... You cannot not question them." Suffering as central to understanding good & bad 23:46 Who Matters? "Even as we talk most people will think we're talking just about humans" Moral philosophy's focus on humans The rationalisations that support animal exploitation "I had an innocent idea of what authority does" "I would volunteer in animal shelters then go home and have a meat dinner" A journalist trip where they helped a sheep get free from barbed wire then "had lamb for dinner" "A mad world" "My awakening... was my encounter with the #Yulin dog meat festival... I started to question the nature of humanity" "It all needs to stop... we need to re-frame... re-write our relationship" "Simply because they can't speak out & they can't fight back" "I don't want to go back to that ignorance ever again" Denial "don't tell me, don't show me" The risks of Yulin as a single issue Elwoods dog meat Hierarchies of species (e.g. dogs vs. pigs) Rational, emotional & cultural drivers of ethics Capabilities, intelligence & sentience "of course they're sentient!" #MelanieJoy's #Carnism #Anthropocentrism #Ecocentrism & #nature "animals are my starting point" "Almost everything I do is geared towards trying to help reduce the suffering of sentient beings" Health & environmental reasons for ending animal exploitation "Accord the animals the respect they deserve" "We care about the ecosystem then we'll go home and have a chicken dinner" Serving animal products at #COP27 ! "It's shocking that some of the most committed climate activists I know are still eating meat & dairy" The erasure of animals & their worshipping "we don't ever see what's happening to the real creature" Lynda Korimboccus' "Peppa Pig Paradox"    • "The Peppa Pig Paradox" - activist academi...   "Once I see this addressed then I'll have hope" 48:18 How Can We Make a Better Future? "The solutions are all out there... what's lacking is political will" #Animalrebellion "#Veganism addresses social injustice... suffering... the most dynamic act an individual can take" Plants as a silver bullet for the agri part of the #climatecrisis Land use "Animal agriculture will come to an end" Water use "You can keep a community going for a week with what you give one dairy cow in a day" Feed conversion ratios & #foodwaste #gretathunberg #degrowth Systems theory... "start as an individual... align w/your values" ... & much more! #Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all #sentient beings.” More at https://sentientism.info/. Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall https://sentientism.info/wall/. Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. E.g.:   / sentientism  .