Animal Allies of WNY

11/22/2021

"The review, published this month, found there was 'strong evidence' that such animals are sentient, which the review defines as having 'the capacity to have feelings, such as feelings of pain, pleasure, hunger, thirst, warmth, joy, comfort and excitement.'"

The review defined sentience as "the capacity to have feelings, such as feelings of pain, pleasure, hunger, thirst, warmth, joy, comfort and excitement."

10/01/2020

This day 41 years ago Kiska was captured, taken from her family and thrown into Marineland. She has watched all five of her calves die. She has been exploited by Marineland for 41 years. She is virtually ignored by staff, she gets little to no enrichment. She deserves to live out her days in a seapen

06/12/2020

𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗢 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡: Please take a moment to reach out to the "WNY Vegans" admin team (listed in image) and ask:

🤔 WHY is content being deleted from their platform?

🤔 WHY are anti-racist members being muted and banished from the group?

🤔 WHY are discussions on how to make the vegan/animal rights movement a safe space for BIPOC folx being shut down and deleted??

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𝗜𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗣𝗨𝗥𝗚𝗘 𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗦𝗠 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗞𝗦: We demand that the "WNY Vegans" organizers make a public statement 1) apologizing for their complicity and 2) categorically condemning racism, state-sanctioned atrocities against the BIPOC community and the VIOLENCE of white SILENCE.

Let's get to work, comrades.

06/04/2020

🔥💖✊🏼✊🏿✊🏾𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗪𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟✊🏾✊🏿✊🏼💖🔥
George Floyd's mother, whom passed two years prior, was right there with him in his last embodied moments. Now, we must answer the call and 𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙒 𝙐𝙋-- For our elders, our brothers, our sisters, our daughters and sons. .

If you can, join your comrades in the streets. There are also MANY other ways to be involved and demonstrate SOLIDARITY (see comments). 𝗧𝗼𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴. 𝘞𝘌 𝘔𝘜𝘚𝘛 𝘚𝘏𝘖𝘞 𝘜𝘗.

GET CONNECTED: Black Love Resists In the Rust is one of the local groups organizing community support.

04/20/2020

03/14/2020

"Forests filter the water we drink, for example, and birds and bees pollinate crops, both of which have substantial economic as well as biological value.

If we fail to understand and take care of the natural world, it can cause a breakdown of these systems and come back to haunt us in ways we know little about."

A developing model of infectious disease shows that most epidemics — AIDS, Ebola, West Nile, SARS, Lyme disease — are a result of things people do to nature.

12/12/2019

"...𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵."

This piece exposes one of the main reasons I stepped back from organizing for animal rights. All too often it felt like I was organizing pats on the back for white people.

When we stand outside a stadium protesting a remorseful Black man we get to avoid the hard work of cultivating true compassion.

UPDATE: There seems to be some confusion-- Animal Allies of WNY is a TOTAL LIBERATION organization. If you prefer single-issue animal rights, move along.

Vick has been doing good work to advocate and help support the youth in making better choices than the ones he made.

Truth be told, he's probably done more advocacy work than all of the "animal lovers" on this thread crying about "race bait" COMBINED.

Refusing to allow a person to grow into a better human being says EVERYTHING I need to know about animal lovers' understanding of true compassion.

Single issue activism is the reason animal rights will never gain a foothold as a serious social justice issue.

The year is 2019. A known criminal who has seen their day in court is thrust in the midst of a societal backlash on if their punishment is…