From back cover:
The colonizer and the animal agriculture industry use the same logic. They identify difference, assert inferiority, and use the asserted inferiority to justify domination.
Animal agriculture is colonialism applied to animals. Hunting is organized warfare applied to animals. It is the assertion that animals exist for human use, that their bodies and lives are resources to be extracted, that their interests do not matter because they lack the characteristics that would grant them consideration. This is the same assertion that colonialism makes about colonized peoples: they exist for the use of the colonizer, their land and labor are resources to be extracted, their interests do not matter because they are not fully human, not fully civilized, not fully deserving of sovereignty.
The logic is identical. And the recognition of this identity is what the system cannot allow. Because if it were recognized that animal agriculture operates through the same logic as colonialism, then the refusal of animal agriculture would be recognizable as an anticolonial resistance. It would be understood not as a distraction from anticolonial struggle but as part of it. It would reveal that the logic of domination is unified, that rebellion requires setting ablaze the entire structure.
