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Title: Veganism in Futurtopia Author: Ria Del Montana Date: https://wildinsurgency.noblogs.org/post/2019/08/28/veganism-in-futurtopia-by-ria-del-montana/ Language: en Topics: anti-civ, primitivism, veganism, green anarchy, foraging, animal liberation
Being that animal liberation and a shift to veganism are central to
animals being free, what will the free world of the future look like? To
release others from human reign, domesticated pigs and dogs, cows and
cats will be cared for until they go feral. But with humans’
infrastructures of civilization strung across the planet, where will
their freedom take place? And with wildlife and nature as a whole in
peril, where is their freedom? A return of land for rewilding requires a
substantial decrease in the human population. Increasingly young people
are voluntarily having fewer or no children based on many factors,
including Earth ethics. As humans reconnect with wild living, Earthcare
will grow stronger.
Capitalism and industrialism, built on models of infinite growth from
exploited natural ‘resources’, prompting people to view animals as
‘products’, wildlife habitat as mining fields, and pets as a profit
market, are the antithesis of a free world. Beginning with herding,
civilization’s founding premise is the domestication of animals. Thing
is, domesticating animals served as a devise setting the stage for
domesticating wild plants into food monocrops, which brought on human
overpopulation. Agriculture and its human overpopulation set wildlife
habitats into death spirals. Humans inadvertently became Earth’s
parasite.
The more humans disconnect from wild life in wilderness, the more they
long for a return to it. But there’s no going back, only forward. What
social character will the human take in the future vegan world? They
will rekindle their lifeway of togetherness. Comparative anthropologist
Layla AbdelRahim lays out human origins as humans living embedded in
wildlife as bands of foraging frugivores, symbiotically benefitting
their habitat community in their ecosystem role as seed spreaders. Human
origins point a path to how humans can still live free with others –
with an ethos of mutualism replacing the failing ethos of domestication.
For modern humans to expand their circle of compassion to all is
challenging in the context of the world they’ve degraded. During the
transition ethical choices are confounding, such as those pitting wild
animals against animals humans bred into existence. Top predators keep
populations in balance and need to be reintroduced, which may shift
humans too toward their original position as prey. But how many humans
suffer and die, directly and indirectly, from civilization? Humans can
act to protect themselves, but to release their predatory
Earth-destructive ways, the human ape needs to come to grips with itself
as an occasional prey species, as much so as any ape.
As quickly as civilization’s systems are expanding, their tangible and
intangible foundations are weakening and bound for collapse. Even after
the advent of civilization, some humans everywhere opted to live life
freely as possible, instinctively sensing how to live on their own
terms, based on an intuitive sense of fairness with others. Some humans
have always tended to, defended and restored the wild. Rewilding of the
human and the planet began long ago. The question is, will vegans
realize it is their calling too?
As to the basic question, reflective of The Great Forgetting of lifeways
and dietways before agriculture, what will a wild vegan eat? From the
mindset of mutualism and freedom for all, as the land rewilds humans
will have The Great Remembering of the bounty of foraging opportunities.
They will be not only more nutritious, but delicious.