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    Constantina Salamone The Prevalence of the Natural Law Within Women: Women & Animal Rights Parsof the olenee which surroundsegu ures the violence done oh earth and that commited gaat te animate. The aia pl ea italy ne Yo ur vo eg fod, Sometimes e arse ht sometines we partpae ii ‘ten we forget i becuse the imager of deco are 20 Commonplace: iss cought ol sls and vanhed onto the Beaches ‘bis edo seco ther este ees held open nd ached bith Curing choc hens pocked fv ro cog and kept Inder afta gt for their nes mre ifeies, yung cles ix ino in aro pone. dereof ih, een fod comets, ‘aac whether cat orth’ mothers, delbrely made ana ‘hath become the ender eal hip served n high priced et. “hist os i not posible foley claim 19 @ nonviolent He while ghar orcoopreting wth a marti or acs sitar neither {pase vo be genuinely nonviolent while lnoring the vente done (orhe myriad vars of ie muh which we share ts plore. ‘Connie Salamone, oral vegetarian ecofemins laments the ‘eaten, nave sing preoceypation of ma) eetrons aed wet Feminists to onde vegetarian ao plicol sement. She elt ‘women are. by nature susan: ond prervers of We, though me compromise cu “ature” day and conform othe expectations of the ‘patriarchy. tn aden 1 refusing teat decd emma,” Comme ‘apes women wil bein obo hand, rode, em eee far ‘ts, and viecton eros as on et of “ahinsa fol). ‘Connie hs been a retrion sis for over ede. By 1974 she ‘drole ars the US anda Europe rig herpes of icing ‘ inerpecis olay into che emersing fnbnst manfeocs. ‘regen speaker and worshop leader Com hae suthored does of ‘apert and Pokies, has exablshed resource rary i her Brosh, ‘i apartment andi coal baling amare of des and ‘nes on onal opreson nmi ato Fine dts ad yoga teacher and @ rue and in ‘Aig, 198, she ran the Nomen feral archon Cava, roesing th pono, A, nach does ae laboratory eng. CCONSTANTINA SALAMONE 368 ‘Women’s lvimacy With Other Animals Rising fom the td, warm ooze, millenia ol, sips tom her bea an parts at her breasts, and arts again blow her telly, runs down her leas and returns to the ground below. She “Understands thie motion, the primordial ejees. AN active ‘creator in Nature, he knows she must e of ie and with it in ‘order to maintain the specs! young throveh another cosmic ‘jee. Not that shes vrtous Ta that Shes female he Just as Shee She asthe genetic mechanics and suppressed knowledge ‘of simple animal ecology and Natural Hygieee, ie el seence ‘of Nature) impressed waitin the ingens of her ran, us asthe asthe suring of the moon-drawn tides erculatng within her blood The Natural Law is nota man-made” human Ia, ut fone of cause and effec, cause and even, the observed ‘henomena ofthe power of Nature tha must be abided by in frder to fie nto Nate's eoreltions ‘When she observes the wickery played out in eulture on her healthy vegetarian bodyand on te land, ce hashing waters, the bountiful plant life, and the observing animals—she cries ‘ut. She knows that a the rot of her contemporary inquiry into the destruction and domination of lneenal spaces (all bodes) fa external spaces (ll ples) is a psimlve rage. ‘Modern women, when left aloe f devise a recall of enciens survival, know tat they can eal generat, lve in tune wit the seasons and appreciate the Bursting force of life that ses in ‘other forms widhous Te empirical nee o control, disse, minate 1 love this bird, when I se the ar of her flight, I ly with her, enter her with my mind, leave myself die for an instant, live tthe Body ofthis bird whom I cannot tive Without, as part of the body of the bird will enter my daughter’ body, because 1 know Tam made {rom this ‘arth. as my mother’ ands were made from this euth fl that Ino speaks to me through this earth and I long to fell ou, You who are earth Yoo and Hen speak 1 acheter of what we Lnow: the ight sinus, (Stan Gri, ‘Wernan and Nature, laper Colopton Boots, 1979) At the heart ofthis not the gel sil sentiment” that she is ldenuied wie end Known for, bu her untelenting support and protection of the Natural Law, the inuitve law tha all ‘Stganisms mst subi to and not be above, nor bend. es the 166. REWEAVING THE WEB OF LIFE ethetlc of ustampereé biological lav, not the artificial Atexhetc of male selene ‘Women know and understand, more exlly than men do, the ‘workings of animal communities, animal nations balancing out fone another. isnot surprising tha the “leading authorities” in Ais scence of animal behaviors are, women: Jane Coodall, es; Diane Fossey, gor; Theima Rowell, teboots; Pyits Jay, monkey. Brigid Brophy, vegearan sexhete and author, says ofthese observations, “Biology certainly offers us no prtex for treating our own species a absolute and al the Fest asslaves, Since the dicoveryofevluton, biology has been Taking ft pain that he frontiers between the species are eb, that we nd other animals have ancestors in sommon, and that We indeed aze animals." inthe last century, Agnes Ryan, feminist author from New England, eked, "Ts it possible for a healthy human race wo be fathered by Violence, in War or In the slaugheetouse. and ‘lthered by saves, innocent and parasic?” Nateenh Century titer Louisa May Alcott was influenced by her father’s Yesearian commune, and passion moved her hand 10 write, ""Jegetable dit and swoe repose. Aniel food and nightmare Puck sour bod from the orchard; do ot snatch it from the fhambie, Without flesh diet there could be no bloodshedaing war.” Isadora Duncan, the American dancer/choreographer, ‘hed compassion inher heart when she said "Who loves this teribe thing called War? Probably the meateaters, haviag File, fel the need tol. The butcher wih his ody apron Ines bloodshed, murder..." ‘Carol Adams, in er esa, “The Inedble Complex," (Second Wave, 1976 wrote "Lam convinced that there isan evolution from becoming feminist to incorporating vegetarianism into ‘e's life. Perhaps tis is why many feninss who all ext meat ‘eact defensively and emotionally those of us who don't. They [now ether intuitively or consciously that meateating sa rele, ‘remiant, a tein wit the pariageha culture we are trying to fore. Feminists who assert their autonomy and become ‘egearan are reversing the objectification frapmenttion/con- ‘umption proces which enables the oppression of women and. ‘animals,” Leakey, the anthropologist, notes In his monumental ‘dy, Origin, that sexism roughly inverssly proporsnal to ‘egearianse" To many of te feminist animal activi, jt

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