Let's think and write about the feelings of animals
As has been mentioned before, the official Biology and Geology curriculum doesn't include any content related to how animals feel, which I consider a significant omission, since you can't truly understand animals without understanding their feelings. In fact, I consider this aspect more relevant than the physiological, anatomical, cytological, histological, and other approaches that the […]
Get in the mud
All teachers want to make a difference in their students' lives. But that can't be done by limiting ourselves strictly to our subject, and that's why we assume we must express our opinions on social issues. The problem is that simply reproducing the positions that society already accepts isn't enough either. In all schools, the […]
How your dog changed my (our) life
Javier Ruiz acaba de publicar su libro How animals live and die, que trata sobre la relación que mantenemos con otros animales, y cuya lectura recomendamos. La misma editorial publica en el siguiente enlace una selección de textos suyos de free download. Entre sus escritos destaca una carta que escribió hace un año a quien […]
Interview with Alejandra, a veterinarian
Hace unas semanas publicamos an article sobre el estudio de la carrera de veterinaria. Hoy encontramos esta entrevista donde Alejandra nos cuenta su experiencia en la facultad de veterinaria y en su vida profesional. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXDYwyKBdbw&feature=youtu.be&t=9
Animals in the wild
It's easy to understand the suffering of caged pigs, cows separated from their calves, or sheep in slaughterhouses. But we tend to consider the lives of animals in the wild idyllic. In the classroom, we explain relationships within the ecosystem without expressing feelings: "The lion preys on the zebra." There's no mention of the suffering […]
Interview with Students for Animal Justice
A group of young students from Valencia share their experience in the anti-speciesist struggle. We hope it will be useful and inspire other student groups. How and why did Students for Animal Justice emerge? Surge de la necesidad de llevar el antiespecismo a todos los espacios posibles, entre ellos las universidades. Al aglutinar a muchas […]
The term "speciesism" in the classroom
El especismo es la forma de discriminación más extendida y menos cuestionada en la sociedad, en el aula y en el entorno familiar. Hay varios motivos para ello. En primer lugar los animales no humanos, no son capaces de organizarse y luchar por sus derechos como lo han hecho otros grupos sociales oprimidos. Su liberación […]
Review of a talk
On Wednesday, November 2nd (2016), I participated in a talk at Complutense University entitled “Education from a Respectful Perspective on Animals,” as part of the Second Conference on Critical Analysis of Speciesism, organized by Animal Ethics and the University Association Against Speciesism. At the end of the talk, a friend offered me some feedback that […]
The question as a tool for reflection
The documentary Live and Let Live, directed by Mark Pierschel, begins with Ria Rehberg explaining that in a history class she was asked the question, "What would we have done if we had been born into a society with slaves?" That question would change her life. It made her realize that in today's society there […]
Critical thinking in adolescence.
Several videos of toddlers, just over two years old, have gone viral online. They cry and protest because they don't want to eat animals, offering convincing and obvious arguments. Reluctance to eat animals at some point in a child's development is common and is based primarily on empathy; an empathy towards other animals that has […]