‘SOLIDARITY’ CONFINEMENT: Jailed animal rights activist being kept in cell 23 hours a day
‘SOLIDARITY’ CONFINEMENT: Jailed animal rights activist being kept in cell 23 hours a day
Jailed animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg is being kept in solitary confinement. In exchange for keeping equipment needed as a result of her diabetes, she is kept apart from other inmates. ‘It’s a few days into my jail sentence’, Rosenberg wrote from jail this week, ‘I spend nearly 23 hours a day in a small cell, almost entirely in isolation. When I get to briefly leave, I enter a common area by myself’. A jury found Rosenberg guilty of felony conspiracy and three misdemeanors for taking four abused chickens from the Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse. She is serving 30 days in […]
‘The Omnivore’s Deception’: John Sanbonmatsu thinks you’re lying to yourself about food
‘The Omnivore’s Deception’: John Sanbonmatsu thinks you’re lying to yourself about food
We often hear questions of animal rights or the meat economy reduced to ‘sustainability’ discourse, which is already the wrong starting point. No one wants to confront the fundamental issue, which is, first, a relation of domination. We see ourselves as the superior being who has a right, really a political right, to subordinate, exploit, and kill every other species. And secondly, and relatedly, the mass violence that is the underpinning of the thing. People who are otherwise nice, decent people are on board with a system of essentially universal genocide. Now that’s an analogy. We don’t have a word […]
BELIEVE: How the animal rights movement is gaining, even though everyone still eats meat
BELIEVE: How the animal rights movement is gaining, even though everyone still eats meat
Like a sprout, the animal rights movement slowly germinates beneath the surface, extending its roots, yet remaining invisible to observers. It is only when the sprout breaks the surface that its full force is suddenly unleashed, visible to the world. While the movement’s progress is obscured by carnivorous, consumer patterns, its roots continue to unravel across the moral landscape. Soon enough, these roots will break the surface of complacency and cognitive dissonance, and animal agriculture will fall alongside it. YA BOI TAJINDER: Veganism has weathered its fair share of hit pieces this year. The Atlantic reported that “plant-based eating has […]
