‘Animate’: How nonhuman and human minds are inherently linked
‘Animate’: How nonhuman and human minds are inherently linked
The notion that humans are separate and superior to nonhuman animals has been used for hundreds of years to justify both our dominion over the natural world and our cruel treatment of animals. This human-centric arrogance is driven by indifference and the fear of seeing ourselves in other animals, resulting in an era called the Anthropocene, often called ‘the age of humanity’, when, in fact, it’s more appropriately called “the rage of inhumanity. It has defined the cultural evolution of humankind, since it describes not only a division between human and nonhuman, but between nature and culture, body and mind, […]
THINK AGAIN: Do you support industrial civilization and demand veganism from others?
THINK AGAIN: Do you support industrial civilization and demand veganism from others?
Factory farming is not a natural phenomenon. It is a specific product of Western industrial capitalism — dependent on mass infrastructure, corporate agriculture, refrigeration technology, global supply chains, and the economic logic that emerged from the Industrial Revolution. The ‘civilizationist vegan’ defends the system that created factory farming. They advocate for its expansion into societies that do not yet have it. They refuse the more radical interventions their own logic demands. And then they direct moral pressure at individuals to perform dietary virtue. That is not a coherent ethical position. It is a power move dressed in the language of […]
The Cost of Silence: What Ridglan Farms reveals about us
The Cost of Silence: What Ridglan Farms reveals about us
Actions like those taken at Ridglan Farms are not born out of disregard for the law, but out of the belief that the law is failing to protect those who cannot protect themselves. They represent a form of moral urgency — an unwillingness to wait for systems to evolve while suffering continues in the present. Whether one sees those actions as justified or unlawful ultimately depends on how one answers a fundamental question: If we recognize animals as sentient, on what grounds do we continue to justify their suffering? And if we cannot answer that question clearly, then perhaps the […]
