{"id":969,"date":"2019-01-02T23:49:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T23:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=969"},"modified":"2019-01-02T23:49:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T23:49:06","slug":"hurting-for-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/02\/hurting-for-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurting for Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All mammals, birds, fish, and probably all invertebrates are sentient, meaning they feel.  Plants almost certainly do not feel. Most people would agree that it is wrong to hurt or kill sentient beings if it is not vitally necessary. \u201cNot vitally necessary\u201d means not necessary for survival or health, the way it is necessary for obligate carnivores like lions to hunt and eat their prey. (Human beings are facultative omnivores, meaning  we can live and be healthy either as carnivores or as herbivores: we have a choice.) As long as we continue to hurt and kill sentient beings, needlessly, for food, clothing, fashion, sport, combat or entertainment it will continue to be the greatest crime of our species against all species (including our own), alongside the crimes we have renounced and outlawed: violence, rape, torture, homicide, genocide, enslavement and subjugation. Let us hope that <a href=\"http:\/\/ipolitics.ca\/2015\/12\/04\/quebec-passes-protection-law-identifying-animals-as-sentient-beings\/\">admitting animals are sentient<\/a> is the first step along the road to ending at last the horrors we inflict on them, needlessly.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = &#8220;\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.3&#8221;;  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, &#8216;script&#8217;, &#8216;facebook-jssdk&#8217;));<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/acracqQuebec\/videos\/927043850665807\/\">\n<p>4 D&#xc9;CEMBRE 2015 Pour ceux et celles qui n&#039;ont pas pu suivre en direct le vote sur le projet de loi 54 &#xe0; l&#039;Assembl&#xe9;e nationale, nous vous en pr&#xe9;sentons l&#039;extrait vid&#xe9;o.POUR 109CONTRE 0ABSTENTIONS 0<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/acracqQuebec\/\">Action citoyenne responsable des animaux de compagnie au Qu\u00e9bec (ACRACQ)<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/acracqQuebec\/videos\/927043850665807\/\">Friday, December 4, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All mammals, birds, fish, and probably all invertebrates are sentient, meaning they feel. Plants almost certainly do not feel. Most people would agree that it is wrong to hurt or kill sentient beings if it is not vitally necessary. \u201cNot vitally necessary\u201d means not necessary for survival or health, the way it is necessary for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/02\/hurting-for-pleasure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hurting for Pleasure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}