I don’t think that you can avoid participating in injustice. I believe that every commodity in existence is the product of injustice. The only reason I would boycott these products was if I genuinely thought that doing so would make a difference, stop the injustice from happening. If veganism was a viable strategy for alleviating the suffering of animals, I’d support it. Unfortunately, it isn’t.
I completely support people being vegan because they feel like they can’t personally stomach the knowledge of where the meat had come from, that I understand. It’s the idea that this is a viable strategy for changing society that I have a problem with.
Agreeing with much of this (more than your first response to socialistscum’s anon question lol), but I wanted to comment. Sure, in the context of capitalist hegemony it’s really hard to avoid participating in speciesist industry. But we can easily participate in it less, and that’s the point, is it not? Just like a white middle class person can’t stop having privilege in race terms, but he sure does have a moral obligation to still do everything in his power, no?
You’re right in that veganism by itself would be a sort of mustard seed critical mass revolution, but only the liberal pacifist consumerist vegans are the ones saying that. Being vegan is a necessary (assuming financial ability) foundation for direct action animal liberation work, just like being anarchist is a necessary foundation for power redistribution. Just like I don’t think anarchist political theory alone is a viable strategy for changing society—you’ve gotta have direct action strategies, mutual aid/socialist theory, organizational strategy, etc. I think you might wrongly be seeing veganism as a limit unto itself, but really it’s just a practical component of animal liberation praxis. Even assuming “it might not change anything,” when someone has the means, why not?
(Source: class-struggle-anarchism)
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Agreeing with much of this (more than your first response to socialistscum’s anon question lol), but
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hate-wizard said:
To be honest veganism, in terms of the lifestyle (and not animal liberation practices, etc.), seems to the idea that one is morally obligated to not participate in (or at least minimise one’s benefit from) oppression/injustice.
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