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Unfortunately, very US-based with the typical American blinders of mentioning 1000 things in the US, 1 thing in Mexico and 1 in India = global perspective. 🙄
Also full of political rhetoric and bizarre PC phrasing. Wild animals are "un-enslaved, non-human animals", for example. Ffs. 🙄 Published in 2015 so much has changed and some figures proven inaccurate.
— Jan 18, 2026 07:52AM
Also full of political rhetoric and bizarre PC phrasing. Wild animals are "un-enslaved, non-human animals", for example. Ffs. 🙄 Published in 2015 so much has changed and some figures proven inaccurate.
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Jan 18, 2026 08:01AM
"un-enslaved, non-human animals"? LMAO. You know, I would consider myself a person whom others might call "woke" at times, but that is a ridiculous phrase even for me.
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heheh, i haven't encountered that before (that i can recall), but i quite like 'un-enslaved nonhuman animals' tho would improve on it by changing animals to beings ;) a tad unwieldy perhaps - i would probably want a shorthand/shortcut for it after its been introduced, to take up less space and time ;) tho the opposite could be said wrt the importance of the reminder the phase gives warranting the extra words to read :thinking emoji:
perhaps a book i might get on with more than you, at least in that regard ;) tho less so in the US centric approach... which is perhaps disappointing cos food justice is *very* much a global issue, and i think there are alot of interesting things happening outside of the US around this.
perhaps the author is imagining/assuming a US audience wrt who they're talking to about what? :thinking emoji: still abit limited perhaps tho.
Tina (on a bit of a mental health break, sorry) wrote: ""un-enslaved, non-human animals"? LMAO. You know, I would consider myself a person whom others might call "woke" at times, but that is a ridiculous phrase even for me."This book is FULL of those types of phrases!
Couldn't help but check out the author/editor's other works and GR has Until Every Animal is Free, so we know what the priorities are here ⛓️💥🐎🐄🐖🐔🐏⛓️💥
Alan (the Lone Librarian rides again) wrote: "Couldn't help but check out the author/editor's other works and GR has Until Every Animal is Free, so we know what the priorities are here ⛓️💥🐎🐄🐖🐔🐏⛓️💥"Thanks for pointing that out! The first review for that book sums up a lot of my feelings about such...I'll be blunt -- extremist soapbox ranting.
I'm a vegetarian, but making the lives of farm animals better and kinder while doing work to encourage the eating of less meat makes a lot more sense to me than rejecting ALL reforms to animal welfare and demanding the outright cessation of all meat farming.
