Open Every Cage: Animal activist group ‘To The Grave’ releases new album, ‘Liberation Front’
Open Every Cage: Animal activist group ‘To The Grave’ releases new album, ‘Liberation Front’
Releasing their fifth full album, the band ‘To The Grave’ drops ‘Liberation Front,’ a 10-track beatdown of misanthropy and a call to action for their inflictions on our planet and the saving and survival of the creatures we share the same atmosphere with. ‘Liberation Front’ is To The Grave’s most direct collection of tracks the band has produced over their 15+ year career. The album is unrelenting, uncompromising, and is at your throat throughout its entirety. The Australian vegan outfit embodies themselves as the karmic revenge for animals and Mother Nature. CONNOR DOUGLAS: Humans are said to be the pinnacle species […]
‘The Imaginary Wall: How We Lost Our Kinship With Animals’
‘The Imaginary Wall: How We Lost Our Kinship With Animals’
The process of evolution that unleashed the world’s biodiversity literally has no mechanism for creating a species that is categorically distinct from all others. Darwin said it himself: there are always intermediate forms. For decades, taboos prevented science from naming the continuities between us and our animal kin for what they are. In effect, our kinship with other animals was obscured by a conspiracy of silence. Why? In part because the imaginary wall was such a huge boon for the business of building empire and industrial society. By erasing the agency, subjectivity, and individuality of the rest of the animal world, […]
In a society that allows you to be caring and empathetic towards animals, feeling nothing, or worse, feeling happy or excited at seeing an animal suffering or being killed, is the dysfunctional part. If there’s no need to view animals with indifference or contempt, why would we? It’s a sign of a healthy, functioning brain to feel empathy for sensitive, emotional animals in a world where we have no need to be harsh and indifferent. DAVID RAMMS: Life is violent, but we’re at a point where we can choose to avoid most violence. We’re among the first humans in history to […]
