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CVA Weekly Newsletter
October 30, 2013
1. Activist Feedback
Kathy, who leafleted with Jacques at the Hillsong United Tour in Minnesota, writes:
We distributed roughly 450 leaflets! We were at the event from 6 pm to 7 pm. For the most part, both Jacques and I agreed that people were pretty receptive to the booklets. We each had a couple people or so stop and talk to us, as well, about the booklet and the movement for vegetarianism, and we had opportunities to share more details with them.
Upcoming Activist Opportunities
11/05/2013 LA, New Orleans Need to Breathe
11/06/2013 IN, Anderson Passion: Let the Future Begin Tour
11/06/2013 FL, Jacksonville The Digital Age
11/08-09/13 CA, Anaheim ATF
11/08/2013 GA, Athens Need to Breathe
11/08/2013 CA, Ontario Winter Jam Tour (California)
11/08/2013 TN, Johnson City Toby Mac’s Hits Deep Tour
11/09/2013 MD, Baltimore Toby Mac’s Hits Deep Tour
11/09/2013 GA, Atlanta Atlanta Veg Fest
11/09/2013 NV, Las Vegas Winter Jam Tour
11/10/2013 AZ, Glendale Winter Jam Tour
11/12/2013 CA, Ontario Hillsong United
11/14/2013 NJ, Newark Hillsong United
11/14/2013 ID, Boise Winter Jam Tour
11/15/2013 OR, Portland Winter Jam Tour
11/15/2013 FL, Tampa Toby Mac’s Hits Deep Tour
11/15/2013 MA, Boston Hillsong United
11/16/2013 PA, Pittsburgh Hillsong United
11/16/2013 CA, Sacramento Winter Jam Tour
11/16/2013 FL, West Palm Beach Toby Mac’s Hits Deep Tour
11/17/2013 FL, Jacksonville Toby Mac’s Hits Deep Tour
11/17/2013 CA, Fresno Winter Jam Tour
11/18/2013 NC, Greensboro Hillsong United
11/19/2013 SC, Greenville Hillsong United
11/21/2013 NM, Rio Rancho Winter Jam Tour
11/21/2013 MO, Independence Toby Mac’s Hits Deep Tour
11/22/2013 CO, Colorado Springs Winter Jam Tour
11/22/2013 FL, Tampa Hillsong United
11/23/2013 FL, Miami Hillsong United
11/24/2013 TX, Ft. Worth Winter Jam Tour
11/24/2013 TN, Nashville National Youth Convention
11/24/2013 AL, Huntsville Toby Mac’s Hits Deep Tour
11/26/2013 TX, Houston Hillsong United
11/29/2013 TN, Nashville Natalie Grant
11/30/2013 GA, Atlanta The Story Tour: A Christmas Celebration
11/30/2013 GA, Atlanta Casting Crowns
12/05/2013 PA, Reading Toby Mac’s Hits Deep Tour
12/07/2013 MN, St. Paul Third Day Tour
12/07/2013 NY, NYC Toby Mac’s Hits Deep Tour
12/12/2013 OK, Tulsa Toby Mac’s Hits Deep Tour
12/15/2013 IN, Indianapolis Toby Mac’s Hits Deep Tour
2. Book Review
Animal Oppression and Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict by David Nibert, 2013, 352 pp, $29.50
Animal advocates have often asserted that there is a link between the harmful exploitation of humans and nonhumans. Animal Oppression and Human Violence is a remarkably well-written and well-documented book that thoroughly and conclusively demonstrates this link. David Nibert shows that domesecration – a term he coined to provide an alternative to the benign-sounding term domestication – of nonhuman persons has been as much a disaster for human civilization as for the unfortunate nonhuman beings who have fallen under human control.
On every continent, herders have violently displaced agriculturalists, resulting in massive killing of nonhuman beings and human beings and causing great poverty and food deprivation among humans. A major impetus to colonize Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas was to domesecrate nonhumans in order to procure flesh and other products for human consumption, primarily by the wealthy elite. Domesecrated animals were crucial in the success of ruthless campaigns to displace and exterminate indigenous people for several reasons. For example, nonhuman beings who accompanied conquering armies provided essential “food on the hoof.”
It becomes clear from Nibert’s detailed analysis that the violent and oppressive attitudes that have resulted in extreme misery for nonhumans are readily applied to dehumanized human groups, particularly when the goal is to obtain the products of domesecration. The adverse consequences of domesecration today include land, water, energy and other resource depletion; development of zoonotic (animal-to-human) infectious diseases; promotion of antibiotic resistance among bacteria; and “Western” diseases associated with eating flesh, milk, and eggs such as heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers.
Nibert advocates veganism, and he shows that a shift to “humane meat” does little to reduce the harm of domesecration to humans and nonhumans. Further, he demonstrates how violence against all living beings is an inherent consequence of capitalism. Nibert contends that capitalism corrupts the democratic process, and he favors a democratic form of socialism. However, to the best of my knowledge we do not yet have a real world model of this economic/political arrangement. Developing a just, sustainable society will be the challenge of the future. This challenge must be met or humanity and the nonhuman world likely face ever greater suffering and death.
Stephen R. Kaufman, M.D.
3. This Week’s Sermon from Rev. Frank and Mary Hoffman
Choose Good Versus Evil
Your question and comments are welcome
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