This fall, Responsible Policies for Animals Correspondent Ben Lotka has been busy in RPA’s Elephant in the Newsroom campaign, urging major news venues to report truthfully about roots of climate breakdown in animal abuse, especially our species’ misguided raising of other animals for food. Newspersons and climate experts pretend burning fossil fuels is the main cause of climate breakdown, reducing fuel use and switching to “renewable energy” the solution. We cannot solve such a massive problem by addressing lesser causes and ignoring major ones.
Fall 2019, PERSONS Newsletter (PDF)
Dear Friends,
I hope you will enjoy the attached fall 2019 issue of Persons, the
Newsletter of Responsible Policies for Animals.
I wish you an enjoyable and rewarding holiday season and New Year.
Best wishes,
David Cantor
Founder & Director
Responsible Policies for Animals
This fall, Responsible Policies for Animals Correspondent Ben Lotka has been busy in RPA’s Elephant in the Newsroom campaign, urging major news venues to report truthfully about roots of climate breakdown in animal abuse, especially our species’ misguided raising of other animals for food.
Newspersons and climate experts pretend burning fossil fuels is the main cause of climate breakdown, reducing fuel use and switching to “renewable energy” the solution. We cannot solve such a massive problem by addressing lesser causes and ignoring major ones.
Years-Long RPA Endeavor
Aiming to make climate-breakdown discourse useful, RPA has long worked to enlighten newspersons who determine what the public will read and hear about climate breakdown (euphemistically, “climate change” and “global warming”). Ben is intensifying the effort by sending major print, television, radio, and Internet news venues a letter from RPA with the November/December 2009 World Watch magazine article “Livestock and Climate Change.”
The article, by two undisputed authorities associated with the World Bank (an institution that promotes the Biocaust, not animal or environmental activism), debunks previous low estimates of climate-breakdown gas from the meat, dairy, fish, egg, feed, and agrichemical industries, putting the figure at more than fifty percent. Climate experts relied upon by news invoke much lower figures debunked in the article.
The World Watch article, ignored by the news industry for a decade, has not been refuted. By accepting obsolete, low figures, news denies climate activists, the public, and government the chance to reverse climate breakdown. Thus, news promotes animal abuse, since (1) animal abuse is the main cause of climate breakdown and (2) climate breakdown abuses all animals, including human beings.
Intractable News Industry
The news industry is one of the most powerful engines of animal-abuse culture, constantly reinforcing all of the false and harmful assumptions that generated animal-abuse culture in the first place. News comports with conventional wisdom and community values, framing facts and analysis to appeal to audiences, advertisers, and underwriters. Before the Civil War, news largely sided with human slavery, not Abolitionism. Throughout the Industrial Revolution, news has promoted industries that abuse nonhuman animals and human beings alike.
This moment is no different. With three animal or plant species vanishing every hour, and with human beings and other animals abused more all the time, news perpetuates beliefs that human beings are entitled to other animals and their natural homes and ecosystems and are not morally obligated to reduce animal abuse.
Long Way To Go
Civilization abuses every animal on Earth one way or another: breeding them for human purposes (eugenics); releasing mercury, lead, oil, dioxin, and countless other substances into their bodies; destroying their natural homes and ecosystems by clearing land; crushing, crashing into them, and poisoning them with automobiles; hauling them out of oceans, lakes, and rivers where they live; killing them in massive numbers for human safety, property and crop protection, experimentation, pseudo-foods for human beings, pets, and other animals … the list is endless.
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