Not trying to dox myself so I'm not gonna say where exactly I work but yeah it's at a grocery store. Wondering about quality of meat at places and stuff? I'm your guy.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    In a speciesist world, a practicing ethical vegan highlights and disrupts normalised violence every time they refuse to eat animal products, or refuse to sit at a table where animal products are being consumed.

    oh, so it's boycotting plus never getting invited to dinner again.

    Veganism is a deep and multi-faceted form of resistance, and it is only one aspect of the wider animal liberation movement, which engages many different forms of activism including direct action, consciousness raising and strategic litigation.

    raising awareness and lawsuits. this is liberalism; adding a single throwaway reference to "direct action" doesn't help when there is no theory of change behind it.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        This is like saying reading/watching theory is liberalism.

        theory connects conditions to your material class interests. "raising awareness" is a moral appeal (idealism)

          • emizeko [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            Non-human animals have material interests.

            theory connects conditions to your material class SELF-interest.

            "raising awareness" is a moral appeal to a person on behalf of a third-party

            it's my belief that in a DotP once there is enough class consciousness to come into a species-being, we will be able to extend that to all animals. I would hope that one of the first things a DotP would do is get rid of food deserts to make sure good produce and non-animal options were easily available to everyone.

            think of it in terms of base and superstructure; even if you make a bold stroke to eliminate all the stuff in the base that pushes meat, the elements of the superstructure that recreate that will still be there, creating (albeit smaller) cultural ripples that will recreate (lesser) material inequalities that then have to be addressed again. it's like reducing the amplitude on a big pendulum as you approach a classless society

          • emizeko [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            let's compare this to climate change: do you think more people need to be "aware" that burning fossil fuels is fucked, or do you think someone has to make them stop?

            everyone knows fossil fuels are bad, even the people profiting off them

              • emizeko [they/them]
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                4 years ago

                how do you expect to be able to make people stop burning fossil fuels if we don’t even know there’s a problem

                how do you expect to be able to make people stop burning fossil fuels when the vast majority already know there's a problem? individual consumer choices and shaming? or seizing the means of production?