United Poultry Concerns <https://www.UPC-online.org>
1 November 2022
I Sent an Email to Filmmaker Michael Moore Asking Why Aren’t Our Fellow
Animals on Your Progressive Agenda?
Alienation and isolation from the living world of planet Earth
Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns, October 30, 2022,
responded to Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #31
<https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/midterm-tsunami-truth-31> by emailing
Michael Moore at michaelmoore+mikes-midterm-tsunami-of-truth@substack.com.
Dear Michael Moore,
You and I are on the same side of social justice and politics. I appreciate
your commentaries and exhortations on behalf of victimized human beings
and, in a general way, the environment and the “climate.”
But I would like to know why you and the majority of “progressives” show no
awareness of or interest in or compassion for the animals who share the
planet with us. Progressives talk about the planet and climate change in a
very abstract way. To read you and others, it’s as if nothing and nobody
exists outside the human isolation chamber – a self-constructed prison
containing only ourselves and our ever-mounting mountains of trash. “Out
there” is “the climate” which we have to consider because our abuse of the
earth and its creatures, whom we are either exterminating or incarcerating,
is affecting the human animal’s pursuit of happiness (shopping, money,
materialism) adversely.
Perhaps my memory is faulty, but I seem to recall hearing you on MSNBC a
few years ago speaking in a somewhat jocular manner about shooting birds,
for fun, with your friends growing up. Pretty soon, there will be few or no
birds left, the rate of their decline, because of us, is so dramatic. The
only birds will be the countless chickens, turkeys, ducks and various
others condemned to live in humanity’s toilet bowls and sewers, i.e.,
industrialized sheds in preparation to be tortured – TORTURED – with
paralytic shocks prior to having their throats partially cut before
millions and millions are scalded alive each year, in this country alone,
in slaughterhouse scald water tanks – all this maniacal, human-manufactured
FASCIST evil for “KFC” and depraved culinary savagery.
Let us not omit the countless birds, mammals, and other poor souls being
tortured, with impunity, in NIH-funded laboratories in the U.S. and
elsewhere. Let us not forget the countless millions of chickens, turkeys
and ducks who are being intentionally suffocated and baked alive, in
laboratories and on factory farms, all to protect the poultry industry,
which is itself responsible for the ever-mutating strains of avian
influenza viruses, and that taxpayer are footing the bill for agribusiness
indemnities paid through USDA programs. Let us not forget all the wolves,
coyotes and others being shot from helicopters and poisoned by U.S. Fish
and Wildlife and its state affiliates for the livestock industry. The
rainforests in Brazil and Asia are being destroyed for this industry:
75-80% of soybeans grown in the Brazilian rainforest are grown to feed
chickens and other industrially-confined farmed animals.
I will conclude by saying, simply, that our species is the one species on
Earth that no other species, animal or plant, needs in order to thrive,
except perhaps for certain host-specific microbes. We bring misery, terror,
depletions and poisons everywhere we penetrate ourselves into. Is this
going to continue into Eternity? Are mainstream “progressives” congenitally
incapable of even acknowledging the existence of beings outside ourselves?
We are ruining the planet for all these creatures who are NOT ruining the
planet. Are these beings really not in your consciousness at all? It isn’t
just “Trumpism,” narrowly construed, that’s the problem. Toward our planet
and its other-than-human individuals, species, homes and habitats, our
species, with miniscule exceptions, is ALL TRUMPISM: brutal, callous,
pitiless, selfish, sociopathic.
I would appreciate a meaningful response from you. Please do not bother
with a pro forma. Thank you for your time.
Karen Davis, PhD, President
United Poultry Concerns
Machipongo, VA 23405
https://www.upc-online.org
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Exposing the Big Game 
Reblogged this on Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting Blog.
It’s about time someone wrote this letter. As they said, Michael Moore and I are basically on the same side. But yes, as much as I enjoy his documentaries. the scene in Bowling For Columbine where he goes into a gun store and the dialog implies that hunting animals is a legitimate use for guns really pissed me off. There is not a SEPARATION between the shooting animals and shooting humans; there is a CONNECTION. That’s a fact he failed to bring to light.
Exactly. That scene and others point out his disconnection from that fact.
Thank you! Finally! This is the question I have been wondering about for years.
Also:
https://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-elephants-zebras-die-kenya-123313615.html
Kenya’s drought. This is the kind of thing our activities exacerbate because with ranching and other human needs, all the water must go to ourselves. It is not factored in to hunting uber alles either, to my knowledge? 😦
To think that I might see more extinction in my lifetime of our larger species (they;re all important) is extremely frightening to me, and yet nobody talks about it or cares, except for a few.
Biden talked about ‘progress’ in his latest speech, but I don’t know if it is worth losing other life on earth. There’s no guarantee that going electric or massive offshore wind will even work!
Massive offshore wind is going to cause even more congestion to already overly congested oceans – which will lead to more ship strikes and entanglements for marine life and killing of sea birds.
Not only right whales will be affected, but species not quite so at risk like humpbacks will fall under the convenient ‘incidental take’ provision in this plan. It just isn’t a good idea. I can’t accept killing marine life so that we can waste energy in the style that we have become accustomed to. I’d rather cut back my usage. But that isn’t even on the table.
Excellent