Philip Wollen shakes the rafters of the auditorium with this 10-minute speech to the St James Ethics Centre and the Wheeler Centre debate in Australia on May 16, 2012. The larger debate consists of six speakers, three that make the case for getting animals off the menu and three that make the case against it. Wollen is a former VP of Citibank and Australian philanthropist who is known to keep out of the limelight. But he sure rose to the challenge for this debate to deliver a huge performance and a powerful message. Bravo!
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This is the transcript to the speech:
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Exposing the Big Game 
Hi Jim…
I can¹t find the author¹s website… bad links. Any suggestions? Veda
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I don’t know, it’s a reblog. Maybe check with the original poster.
I checked out all the links. They’re working for me.
Thanks for checking Maureen.
I am glad to see more writings on the issue of liberating non-humans from human bondage. The problem some of us have with the term “rights” is that it is the Humanistic approach, which is pretty much what human society uses. We must tear ourselves away from Humanism as much as we can. That is why some of us prefer the term “liberation.” We humans cannot not confer “rights” to any species. We can, however, work to challenge humanistic approaches to “helping animals” which includes the notion of “management” of other species. If humans can sacrifice even a little, to not further develop (and rape) more wild places, to eliminate killing of wild animals for “sport” or other human “uses”–perhaps some of the wild species may have a chance in this Climate Change World.
The book I am reading/studying on-going on this subject is: The John A. Livingston Reader, including “The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation” and One cosmic Instant: A Natural History of Human Arrogance.” It is helping me to better understand our Humanistic Condition, and how this is at the core of our planetary crises.
http://www.earthforanimals.org
They sound like some good reads.