Marxist Animalism
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Companies that perpetrate vivisection are now attracting vegans by advertising vegan foodstuffs. And vegans who support military force are supporting the military-industrial-vivisection complex. Vegan support for capitalism and disinterest in socialism is just more self-defeating naivety.
Capitalists discover veganism
Investors are piling into a vegan-focused venture capital fund
There are many workers who lost their job who now are creating a small business based on Microgreens, and only a few dollars are required to start that type of business, and it can be started in any room of a house, or an apartment, or in the basement, or in the garage. You only need seeding trays, grow lights, peat moss, coconut noir, and shelves
UK’s largest ever outbreak of bird flu.
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/covid-uk-bird-flu-chickens-b1789525.html
In defence of meat.
https://www.dw.com/en/how-to-feed-the-world-amid-covid-and-climate-crises/a-56284066
Despite the push to rein in the over-consumption of meat and dairy in the Global North, animals remain a vital and yet diminishing source of nutrition and food security in low income nations — especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Grazing animals convert low quality feed into high quality proteins with essential amino acids that are not found in plants. Pastoralists guide livestock to eat grasses, forages and unused crop by-products and waste that humans cannot eat, transforming this low nutrition food into high-quality meat and dairy proteins — often on marginal, non-arable land.
But while there is “an overconsumption of some meat products in high income countries,” there is in fact “underconsumption in low income countries,” said Claudia Ringler, deputy division director at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
…sustainable livestock farming is a fundamental part of food systems in low-income countries that needs to be harnessed and improved.
Marxist Animalism = Production & Consumption. Not all that different from Capitalist Animalism.
Is there an “animalism” (whatever that means) that treats other animals than us as more than objects of exploitation?
The trade in pets is now considered the third-largest source of illegal income in the European Union after organized drug and arms trafficking.
https://www.dw.com/en/covid-demand-for-dogs-and-cats-surges-in-germany/a-56318208
Factory farming dogs for experiments.
Dog Factory Farms in the United States? Consumers Can End It.
65,000 dogs are used in animal testing each year in the United States. Marshall BioResources is one of the largest breeders of dogs for experimentation in the United States, with 23,000 dogs, as well as cats, ferrets and other animals.
Back to pets again
There are 7.5 million cats in the UK and they are estimated to kill about 100 million animals a year. The toll is billions in the US and 230 million in Australia. Mammals such as mice, rats and rabbits make up two-thirds of the UK kills, a quarter are birds such as sparrows and blackbirds, and the rest are frogs and lizards.
Feeding pet cats meaty food and playing with them to simulate hunting stops them killing wildlife, according to a study. Eating grain-free food led to the cats depositing a third fewer mouse and bird corpses on doorsteps.
Martina Cecchetti, at the University of Exeter, who conducted the tests, said, “However, meat production raises clear climate and environmental issues, so one of our next steps is to find out whether specific micronutrients could be added to cat foods to reduce hunting.”
https://www.dw.com/en/the-meat-paradox-why-we-eat-animals-even-though-we-dont-want-to/a-56649802
The “meat paradox”: the psychological conflict between people’s dietary preference for meat and their moral opposition to animal suffering and death.
Poetic Justice.
Absolutely!
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