On Vegetarianism

From back cover:

…it is not for us to found a new religion, and to hamper ourselves with a sectarian dogma; it is a question of making our existence as beautiful as possible, and in harmony, so far as in us lies, with the æsthetic conditions of our surroundings…

…We no longer want to hear the bleating of sheep, the bellowing of bullocks, the groans and piercing shrieks of the pigs, as they are led to the slaughter. We aspire to the time when we shall not have to walk swiftly to shorten that hideous minute of passing the haunts of butchery with their rivulets of blood and rows of sharp hooks, whereon carcasses are hung up by blood-stained men, armed with horrible knives. We want some day to live in a city where we shall no longer see butchers’ shops full of dead bodies side by side with drapers’ or jewellers’, and facing a druggist’s, or hard by a window filled with choice fruits, or with beautiful books, engravings or statuettes, and works of art. We want an environment pleasant to the eye and in harmony with beauty…

…It is on account of the ugliness of it that we also abhor vivisection and all dangerous experiments, except when they are practised by the man of science on his own person. It is the ugliness of the deed which fills us with disgust when we see a naturalist pinning live butterflies into his box, or destroying an ant-hill in order to count the ants. We turn with dislike from the engineer who robs Nature of her beauty by imprisoning a cascade in conduit-pipes, and from the Californian woodsman who cuts down a tree, four thousand years old and three hundred feet high, to show its rings at fairs and exhibitions. Ugliness in persons, in deeds, in life, in surrounding Nature — this is our worst foe. Let us become beautiful ourselves, and let our life be beautiful!

On Vegetarianism pdf

On the Hunt: Morality in the Crosshairs, Hunting the Hunter in Anti-Civ Discourse

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Vegan Amorality: An Egoist Nihilist Critique of Speciesism

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“From an egoist perspective, the question of veganism is not moral at all. It is: Do I wish to participate in a system that reduces other sentient beings to instruments? Do I wish to fund, through my consumption, the brutally violent industrial machinery of animal agriculture? Do I wish to carry within my body the consequences of choices made by others on my behalf? The answer an egoist gives is likely to be: No. Not because egoism demands universal compassion. Not because the suffering of animals is an objective moral fact. But because the egoist recognizes that they are not separate from the world they participate in. They recognize that domination structures—the logic that justifies the reduction of animals to meat, of the natural world to resources, of life itself to extractable value—are the same logic that dominates the egoist themselves. To refuse to participate in animal agriculture is, for the egoist, to refuse one mechanism of the domination structure that constrains their own freedom. This is not altruism. This is not moral duty. This is the recognition that the spook of “hierarchy is natural” and “domination is justified” must be shattered everywhere it appears, because everywhere it appears, it limits the egoist’s own power…

“The anarchist individualists do not present themselves as proletarians, absorbed only in the search for material amelioration, tied to a class determined to transform the world and to substitute a new society for the actual one. They place themselves in the present; they disdain to orient the coming generations towards a form of society allegedly destined to assure their happiness, for the simple reason that from the individualist point of view happiness is a conquest, an individual’s internal realization.” – Emile Armand, Individualist Perspectives

Individualist anarchism operates from an adjacent but compatible premise: that imposed categories, enforced identities, and hierarchical arrangements are the fundamental problem, and that liberation consists of refusing to be sorted into their schemes. In this sense, anarcho-egoism is typically considered nearly synonymous with individualist anarchism. From this perspective, veganism is not about creating a new identity (“I am a vegan,” as if this were a fixed property), but about refusing participation in a particular form of categorization and domination. Animal agriculture categorizes sentient beings as property, as things, as resources. It sorts the world into the edible and the inedible, the valuable and the disposable. Individualist anarchism refuses this sorting. It refuses to participate in the logic of categorization that treats senti ent beings as mere things.”

Vegan Amorality_An Egoist Nihilist Critique of Speciesism pdf

Non-human Comrades


From back cover:
“The attempt by humans to manage nature is the very tendency which resulted in the meltdown surrounding us, and more of the same is not the remedy.

The only way out is to be brave enough to abandon the commitment to human control, and anti-speciesists should be the first to do so.”

Non-human Comrades pdf

Decolonizing Individuality: Anarchism, Anti-Colonization & Anti-Speciesism


from back cover:

Since the reproduction of colonialism takes place on an individual level, individuality can be understood as a battle-ground; one can either choose to surrender to the pre configured meaning and values of industrial society, or assert a creative nothingness – an ungovernable terra incognita…

Possessed by identities, the humanized animal cannibalizes other (human and non-human) animals perceived to belong to inferior identities. From this point of view, consumption takes on a value and meaning of control and domination – a mirror image of the way capitalism consumes emotional space and transforms living beings into territories devoid of compassion…

Total Liberation as an intersection of anarchist theory and decolonial praxis, contrasts the statist group-think of the political left with an individual-focused self-determination that values a do-it-yourself ethic over the compulsion to organize, control, or govern others. With this comes an understanding of self-determination as a life force integral not only to the struggles of people native to the land – but to the flora and fauna that resist industrialization as well.

Decolonizing Individuality_Anarchism, Anti-Colonization & Anti-Speciesism pdf

 

The Revolution Starts on Your Plate_A Guide to Vegan Cooking Volume 1-2

”The reason we provide this zine is to make clear that the vegan diet is more than just a diet; it’s an integeral part of a revolutionary lifestyle. Because not boycotting the bio-industry negates all points of total liberation. No one is free until all are free, which includes animals as well.

We hope to give you some knowledge how to make good vegan food without paying the highest price or supporting genocide.

Until every cage is empty”

– Tinnitus Patches XVX (Netherlands)

The Revolution Starts on Your Plate_A Guide to Vegan Cooking pdf

The Revolution Starts on Your Plate_A Guide to Vegan Cooking Vol. 2 pdf

 

 

Why Vegan Anarchy? A Vegan Look into the Reasons For Anarchy

“Mainstream vegan reading material is often written from a liberal rather than a radical perspective. By “radical” we mean a perspective that addresses the “root” of speciesism and human supremacy. While under capitalism, individual consumer choices do play a role in upholding speciesism and human supremacy, we also acknowledge the role industrial civilization itself plays in waging war against all animals – humans included!

This short pamphlet aims to offer an anarchist perspective to the vegan struggle for animal liberation by bringing attention to the technological-industrial, capitalist society that utilizes agriculture, land ownership, and environmental degradation to expand its control and power. It is assumed that the reader is already vegan and aware of the exploitative nature of capitalism and the social hierarchies of sexism, racism, ableism, etc. By understanding how capitalism keeps the animal liberation movement passive by transforming it into a profitable dietary trend, we hope to illustrate why we feel more vegan food options is simply not enough.”

Why Vegan Anarchy_A Vegan Look Into the Reasons for Anarchy pdf

Liberal Radical & Nihilist VEGANISM: A Short Exploration

From back cover:

“(This text was originally published in a zine called “Vegan Wild: An International Anarchist Journal of Total Liberation”. It has been slightly modified and expanded for the purpose of serving as its own zine.)

As a zine distributer and publisher we wanted to provide what we feel to be a basic outline for exploring vegan perspectives generally defined as “liberal”, “radical” and “nihilist”. Exactly how those of us affiliated with Warzone Distro understand veganism in our individual lives has been inspired by a multitude of perspectives – vegan, non-vegan, and anti-vegan -shared over the years. Reading and listening to different stories (and critiques) has without a doubt played an influential role in how we, as anarchists, relate animal liberation to veganism, as anti-speciesist praxis. In encouraging dialog, we find it practical to continuously challenge non-vegan anarchists, non-anarchist vegans, as well as question and expand our own understanding of veganism.

This text is by no means intended to be complete. Despite its simplicity, we feel this text has the potential to be a useful tool for those interested in creating further dialog of their own on the topic.”

Liberal_Radical & Nihilist Veganism_A Short Exploration pdf