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Raging Questions on Lost Wildness

From back cover: “Did a transition toward exploiting animals correlate to a transition in habitat spread from tropical and sub-tropical to seasonal climates inhospitable to wild humans? Did this change necessitate exploiting other animals for survival (consuming them, wearing their … Continue reading

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Animal Colonialism in North America: Milk Colonialism, Environmental Racism and Indigenous Veganism

From back cover: “The Western hierarchical system that tends to divide people into categories was applied on nonhuman animals before it was applied on humans. “Wild animals” were placed below “domesticated animals” whose presence in the landscape was justified on … Continue reading

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From Healing Herbs to Dangerous Drugs: Western Medicine’s War on the Natural World

From back cover: “Western medicine’s preference for the development and marketing of dangerous drugs over the earlier use of healing herbs is a direct product of its mechanistic beliefs. Rather than use the entire plant, western medicine prefers to isolate … Continue reading

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The Killing Game: An Ecofeminist Critique of Hunting

From back cover: “Most hunters ignore the question of the animal’s subjective experience, defending their actions by reference to the purity of their own motives and desires, and, in particular, by presenting their desire to hunt as a need. Hunters … Continue reading

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There Is No Respectful Way to Kill an Animal

From back cover: “The prayers and ceremonies do something for us, not the deer, at the very least not the same thing for the deer, and there is no way to escape the fundamental inequity of the relationship. I would … Continue reading

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Absurd, Disingenuous Rationalizations of Ranting Humancentric Anarchists

From back cover: “Anti-civ anarchists attempting to ground their reasoning for hunting in primal human behavior are being self-contradictory. Surrendering one’s innate primal mutualism to anthropocentric supremacy grounded in moral and ethical ethos manifests in human incursions dominating and even … Continue reading

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Education as the Domestication of Inner Space

From back cover: “We are taught since early childhood that everything in the world exists in a food chain as a “resource” to be consumed by those higher up the chain and concurrently as the consumer of “resources” that are … Continue reading

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AnPrim On Fire: Human Supremacy Within Anarcho­-Primitivist Narrative

From back cover: “Early humans began as wild forest edge specialists who, through colonization with technologies as fire mastery, evolved into adaptive generalists, but not as one people in one instant. Civilization is not one event in time, but a … Continue reading

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Out of Civilitopia

From back cover: “Why was caveman hunting selected for the podium, and not murder or rape or infanticide or cannibalism or causing species extinctions when there was also evidence of those in pre­history humans? When evidence of some hunting was … Continue reading

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Veganism is Anti-Speciesism is Anti-Civ

Text from zine: “Contrary to the predatory man-the-hunter myth, hominids have innate empathy and cooperativeness that manifests idiosyncratically in civilization. One such manifestation is veganism, whose central focus is the abstention from needless exploitation of animals. But, conventional anarcho-primitivist pigeonholing … Continue reading

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