What’s the deal with animal use?

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abolition, animal emancipation, animal exploitation, animal liberation, animal oppression, animal rights, animal suffering, animal use, anti-oppression, civilization, cooperation, imperialism, indigenous knowledge, mutualism, reciprocity, sacred ecology, traditional ecological knowledge, veganism

In global civilization, where the various human uses of nonhuman animals results in immense animal oppression, concerned activists are looking for a way to deal.  The abolitionist animal liberation agenda seeks to end all forms of animal use.  The abolitionist approach also states that all animal use is driven by the conceptualization of animals as property.  In other words, the commodification of animals leads to animal use, i.e. animal exploitation.

The Animal in Veganism (Part 1)

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abolition, animal liberation, animal rights, civilization, commodification, decolonization, environmental ethics, environmentalism, nature/culture, social justice, spirituality, veganism

“The most important thing you can do [to achieve abolition] is go vegan” is what Gary Francione says on his website The Abolitionist Approach.  I would have to disagree.  I have been practicing veganism since 2004, and my reasons for going vegan were with animals in mind.  Decolonization, ecological living, spirituality, health, and my own animality didn’t come until four years later when I seriously began to question the multiple directions of veganism in the United States. I have since come to view veganism for what it is–a contextual practice that provides no foresight for long-term strategy.  In animal liberation, this is definitely the case.