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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Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/donald-trump-jr-paul-pelosi-reaction/index.html

Updated 4:36 PM EDT, Mon October 31, 2022

Donald Trump, Jr. looks on upon arrival at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 12, 2019.Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesCNN — 

The attack on Paul Pelosi was terrifying. A man broke into the house of the 82-year-old husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the middle of the night and hit him with a hammer. Paul Pelosi suffered a fractured skull among other injuries. The intruder shouted, “where’s Nancy?”

Donald Trump Jr. appears to thinks it’s funny.

Late Sunday night, Trump Jr. shared an image on social media of a hammer and a pair of underwear with the words “Got my Paul Pelosi Halloween costume ready.” Trump Jr. wrote: “The Internet remains undefeated.” (Sidebar: I’m not going to share a link to Trump Jr.’s post. You can find it on the internet if you so choose.)

Which, even by the low standards set by the eldest son of former President Donald Trump, is egregiously bad. But, unfortunately, not unexpected.

Trump Jr., even more so than his famous father, has reveled in the idea that he is the king of the deplorables – someone willing to say and do things that other people want to but are too afraid. Trump Jr.’s MO has always been – as it likely will be for this incident – that he is just joking, and that people need to stop taking themselves so seriously. He’s the cool guy who doesn’t ever get offended while the rest of us are the squares who are forever on outrage watch.

But stop and consider what Trump Jr. is mocking here. An elderly man was violently attacked in his own home. He was injured badly enough that he had to undergo surgery. The intruder who attacked him seemed to also be after the speaker of the House. The man alleged of attacking Pelosi had also shared a variety of conspiracy theories – about the 2020 election and Covid-19, among other things – on social media.

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The only right thing to do in this situation is a) condemn the act and b) see what can be done to put better safeguards in place in hopes of keeping this from happening again.

Instead, what Trump Jr. did is make light of it.

That he did so, again, shouldn’t be all that surprising. Trump Jr.’s social media presence is a super-charged version of his father’s – if you can believe that. What’s so depressing is that Trump Jr.’s post on Truth Social has more than 5,000 likes and more than 1,000 shares as of this writing. He also shared the post on Twitter and Instagram.

Which means that not only will he likely refuse to apologize for his disgusting post, he will revel in it – convinced that his mission of freaking out the woke mob has been accomplished.

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We are in a very dark place when content like this is championed by people in positions of power. It normalizes aberrant behavior by making light of it. And the result is that such incidents become more and more likely in the future.