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Title: Vegan Means Attack
Author: Flower Bomb
Date: 2018
Language: en
Topics: anti-speciesism, veganism, vegan
Source: Retrieved on Nov. 11 2018 from https://warzonedistro.noblogs.org/post/2017/09/09/vegan-means-attack-fomenting-a-wildfire-against-speciesism-and-moral-anthropocentrism/

Flower Bomb

Vegan Means Attack

My veganism exists as a nihilist confrontation against the existing

moral fabric of anthropocentrism and speciesism. Here on this landmass

called “america”, the moral justifications for consuming the flesh and

secretions of non-human animals go hand in hand with the

industrialization of their enslavement and reduction to commodity

status. This is a reflection of capitalist society reducing chaos to

order, animal bodies from wild to domesticated, and the marketing of

bodies that are socially recognized as mere products for consumption. My

veganism is defined not only by an individualist refusal to internalize,

validate and reinforce these authoritarian social values, but also by

consecutively attacking them as well.

My anarchy rejects speciesist civilization, not from a “return to the

hunter-gatherer” perspective, but from a point of constant hostility

towards arbitrary hierarchies, authority, and governance that take form

pre- or post-civilization. These include the restoration of traditions

or cultures that attempt to resurrect anthropocentric, hierarchical

values and worldviews. My focus is not a re-establishment of a past

existence. My focus is the creation of a joyous life, here and now,

through destructive confrontation with any governing elements that

attempt to maintain hierarchical power. I am hostile to all who view

non-human animals and the wild as mere raw materials for anthropocentric

exploitation and consumption.

For real though, it amazes me to see self-proclaimed anarchists fulfill

the anthropocentric role of consuming non-human animals - roles assigned

to them by capitalism, tradition, and cultures throughout childhood

upbringing. Fulfilling the roles of being “Human” and embracing a

morality which standardizes the roles of control and domination over the

wild. How long does it take for contemporary “anarchists” to notice the

battery cages, the open-air prisons of fenced enclosures, the

exhibitions of zoos, the concealed brutality of slaughterhouses, the

speciesism of consuming some non-human animals but building

relationships with others? Or the interconnected ways society views

non-human animals as the lowest common denominator to compare those of

the oppressed category to? How the fuck does anti-authoritarian praxis

stop at the commodification of bodies - human or non-human (but in this

case, non-human) - who are objectified to justify their enslavement,

murder, and consumption?

As far as prisoner support and prison abolition, where is the

acknowledgment of - and the solidarity with - the millions who remain

imprisoned in slaughterhouses with death sentences, justified by the

mere demand for their mutilated, neatly-packaged corpses? The

acknowledgement of their existential struggle against prison and

domination is limited by human supremacy. When anarchy fails to include

liberated wildness beyond the limited scope of human supremacy, it is

mere human-centered reformism which falls short of destroying the very

logic of control and domination. Society is death by design. Death and

disregard for non-human animals are built into the design of highways,

railroads, agriculture, and every other form of structural

anthropocentrism. I advocate its total collapse towards the emancipation

of the wild. Domestication is a process of internalized self-automation,

conditioned with a sense of superiority to wildness which manifests

itself institutionally with human-over-animal thinking. I reject this

way of thinking along with its assumption that non-human animal bodies

are mere food products for hunting and consumption - an assumption that

disregards their own individual interests and bodily autonomy. I reject

humanism, its authoritarian roles and traditions and its assigned

identity which limits my potential to explore my own animality beyond

civilized domestication.

There is a war to be waged against society, alongside the non-human

animals who refuse domesticated subservience, and who are evicted from

their homes due to mass deforestation, human development and technology.

Veganism burdened by the millstone of liberalism, fails to critically

acknowledge capitalist, industrial civilization itself as the massified,

embodiment of anthropocentric domination. Anarchism that fails to

challenge speciesism on an individual level reproduces the internalized

authoritarian values of human domination. Since speciesism is pervasive

in society, it is insulated and well preserved by a comforting

normalization - a normalization that aids cultural indoctrination and

apathy. Confrontation is necessary in unsettling the socially

established comforts and moral order of non-human animal domination. My

vegan anarchy embodies solidarity not just with dietary intake, but also

armed with attack; attack defined by the material actions of an

incendiary desire to destroy the social manifestations of human

supremacy.

-Flower Bomb