Posted on 07/09/2015 7:41:55 PM PDT by Steelfish
Professor’s Manifesto: Vegans Must Illegally Overthrow Society to Save the World by KATHERINE TIMPF July 9, 2015
A professor at the University of Texas at El Paso wrote a manifesto saying that animal-rights activists must rise up and commit “illegal raids” and “sabotage attacks” in order to save the world from a “mass extinction.” In a 2009 piece for the Animal Liberation Front titled “Manifesto for Radical Abolitionism: Total Liberation By Any Means Necessary,” associate professor of philosophy Steven Best says that groups like PETA are just not radical or progressive enough. After all, they work with corporations (boo!) “in order to regulate, not eliminate, the ongoing nonhuman animal holocaust.”
Best explains that capitalism is “destructive,” the state is a “corrupt tool,” and keeping animals enslaved will definitely lead to a “mass extinction” — and so basically it’s just not enough to go vegan or adopt a rescue puppy.
What does he suggest we do instead? Well . . . We endorse a form of abolition that (1) defends the use of high-pressure direct action tactics, along with illegal raids, rescues, and sabotage attacks; (2) views capitalism as an inherently irrational, exploitative, and destructive system, and sees the state as a corrupt tool whose function is to advance the economic and military interests of the corporate domination system and to repress opposition to its agenda; (3) has a broad, critical understanding of how different forms of oppression are interrelated, seeing human animal, nonhuman animal, and earth liberation as inseparable projects; and, thus, (4) promotes an anti-capitalist alliance politics with other rights, justice, and liberation movements who share the common goal of dismantling all systems of hierarchical domination and rebuilding societies through decentralization and democratization processes.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
A friend of mine hooked up with a vegan gal back in the late ‘60s. A few years later, I visited them and she was preparing a venison roast - times got tough, they had a kid and meat on the hoof was more readily available than all the vegetable matter she had once dedicated herself to. She and the kid looked healthy despite the “evil meat” diet.
I seriously believe that veganism is a mental illness. My wife is a vegan and yes she is mentally ill.
There are more ratburgers like that one, only they're indoctrinating public schoolkids.
I’m sure the FBI is all over this... oh wait.. the nut’s a liberal.
The FBI and IRS are sending an apology for even considering looking into this call for revolution...
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