Non-Speciesist John Lennon

I am going to start this vlog by singing the non-speciesist version of the song "Imagine" by John Lennon:


Imagine there's no vivisection
It's easy if you try
No hell on factory farms
just animals and the sky
Imagine all the creatures
Living cruelty free...

Imagine there's no flesh trade
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or torture for
And no speciesism too
Imagine all the beings
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for animal slaves
A brotherhood with them
Imagine all the beings
Sharing all the world...

DID YOUR FOOD HAVE A FACE?

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one


"Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace."

Albert Schweitzer, The Philosophy of Civilization

"Am I saying that a spider has as much right to life as an egret or a human? Yes. I see no logically consistent reason to say otherwise."

Joan Dunayer

All beings that feel pain deserve human rights

Equality of the species is the logical conclusion of post-Darwin morality

Richard Ryder
Saturday August 6, 2005
The Guardian

The word speciesism came to me while I was lying in a bath in Oxford some 35 years ago. It was like racism or sexism - a prejudice based upon morally irrelevant physical differences. Since Darwin we have known we are human animals related to all the other animals through evolution; how, then, can we justify our almost total oppression of all the other species? All animal species can suffer pain and distress. Animals scream and writhe like us; their nervous systems are similar and contain the same biochemicals that we know are associated with the experience of pain in ourselves. Read more...