Key points.

Animal cruelty is like the Holocaust:

Yourofsky calls slaughterhouses “concentration camps” and compares factory farming to the Holocaust. He plays a bloody, four-minute montage in which workers slam baby pigs to the ground, force-feed geese, and sear chicken beaks. Ultimately, he urges his audience to give up consuming meat and animal products immediately: “Animals are being abused. It is not your right and it is not your freedom to do this to them. You don’t get to have freedom when somebody else doesn’t.”

When that speaker was asked about Palestinians:

“Since the ‘international community’ is comprised of violent, bloodthirsty thugs who terrorize billions of innocent animals every second of every minute of every hour of every day, the ‘international community’ can go to HELL,” he wrote +972. “When people start eating sliced up Jew flesh, or seared Palestinian children in between two slices of bread with onions, pickles and mustard, then I’ll be concerned about the Middle East situation.”

Veganism under capitalism:

Aleph Farms, the company behind the lab-grown meat that Netanyahu tasted. It’s co-founded by the Strauss Group—a food manufacturer that has provided financial support(Opens in a new tab) to the Israel Defense Forces’ Golani Brigade, which has a history of severe human rights abuses—and the Technion, the university whose research and development in military technology helps sustain the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Future Meat Technologies, meanwhile, is based on founder Yaakov Nahmias’s work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is licensed through its technology transfer company, Yissum. In 2014 the university, which is built in part on occupied Palestinian territory, established a donation page(Opens in a new tab) to support the “warrior students” who joined Israel’s attack on Gaza; in 2019, it was announced that it would host an army base(Opens in a new tab) for IDF intelligence officers. The Technion, Strauss, and Hebrew University have all been targets of the BDS movement

And alternative leftist veganism:

“If veganism truly is about not harming another living thing to the best of our ability, and we can accept that people are animals, it is logical that a ‘vegan’ soldier engaged in armed combat against a civilian population is not just nonsensical, it is simply not veganism,” Safi is obviously right—if one views veganism as a radical and comprehensive liberatory philosophy. But the partial success of Israel’s veganwashing campaign around the world makes clear that his definition of veganism is not universally shared. “Veganism is freedom, abundance, and liberation for all. Or, it can be. But only if there is justice for Palestine.”