Vegan Means Attack: Fomenting A Wildfire Against Speciesism and Moral Anthropocentrism

From back cover:

“There is a war to be waged against society, alongside the non-human animals who refuse domesticated subservience, and who are evicted from their homes due to mass deforestation, human development and technology. Veganism burdened by the millstone of liberalism, fails to critically acknowledge capitalist, industrial civilization itself as the massified, embodiment of anthropocentric domination. Anarchism that fails to challenge speciesism on an individual level reproduces the internalized authoritarian values of human domination. Since speciesism is pervasive in society, it is insulated and well preserved by a comforting normalization – a normalization that aids cultural indoctrination and apathy. Confrontation is necessary in unsettling the socially established comforts and moral order of non-human animal domination.”

Vegan Means Attack pdf

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Vegan σημαίνει επίθεση: Υποκινώντας την φλόγα ενάντια στο σπισισμό και τον ηθικό ανθρωποκεντρισμό

Ο βιγκανισμός μου είμαι μια μηδενιστική αντιπαράθεση ενάντια στην υπάρχουσα ηθική δομή του ανθρωποκεντρισμού και σπισισμού. Σε αυτό το έδαφος που ονομάζεται “Αμερική” η ηθική δικαιολογία για την κατανάλωση σάρκας και παράγωγων από μη ανθρώπινα ζώα συμπορεύεται με την εκβιομηχάνιση της υποδούλωσης τους και την υποβάθμιση τους σε αγαθά. Αυτή είναι μια αντανάκλαση της καπιταλιστικής κοινωνίας οδηγώντας το χάος σε τάξη, τα σώματα των ζώων από άγρια σε εξημερωμένα και το μάρκετινκ των σωμάτων που είναι κοινωνικά αποδεκτό να αναγνωρίζονται ως προϊόντα για κατανάλωση. Ο βιγκανισμός μου δεν είναι μόνο μια ατομική άρνηση για να την εσωτερικεύσω, να επιβεβαιωθώ και να ενισχύσω αυτές τις αυταρχικές κοινωνικές αξίες, αλλά για να επιτεθώ αλλεπάλληλα σε αυτές.

Η αναρχία μου απορρίπτει τον σπισιστικό πολιτισμό, όχι με την προοπτική “ας ξαναγίνουμε τροφοσυλλέκτες”, αλλά με τη λογική της συνεχούς αντιπαλότητας προς την αυθαίρετη ιεραρχία, εξουσία και διακυβέρνηση που διαμορφώνονται  πριν και μετά τον πολιτισμό. Αυτές προσπαθούν να επαναφέρουν στο προσκήνιο τις παραδόσεις ή την κουλτούρα του ανθρωποκεντρισμού, της ιεραρχίας και της κοσμοθεωρίας. Εστιάζω στην δημιουργία μιας χαρούμενης ζωής, εδώ και τώρα, μέσω της καταστροφικής αντιπαράθεσης με κάθε κυβερνητικό στοιχείο που διατηρεί ζωντανή την ιεραρχική εξουσία. Είμαι εχθρός ενάντια σε όσους θεωρούν τα μη ανθρώπινα  ζώα και το φυσικό περιβάλλον ως απλές πρώτες ύλες για ανθρωποκεντρική εκμετάλλευση και κατανάλωση.

Πραγματικά, με εκπλήσσει το γεγονός να βλέπω αυτοαποκαλούμενους αναρχικούς με εντελώς ανθρωποκεντρικό ρόλο καταναλώνοντας μη ανθρώπινα ζώα, έναν ρόλο που τους έχει δώσει ο καπιταλισμός, οι παραδόσεις, η κουλτούρα κατά τη διάρκεια της παιδικής τους ανατροφής. Ικανοποιώντας το ρόλο του “Ανθρώπου” και αγκαλιάζοντας μια ηθική που τυποποιεί τους ρόλους του ελέγχου και της υποταγής της άγριας φύσης. Πόσο καιρό παίρνει στους σύγχρονους “αναρχικούς” να αντιληφθούν την πληθώρα των κλουβιών, τις υπαίθριες περιφραγμένες φυλακές, τους ζωολογικούς κήπους, την βιαιότητα των σφαγείων που αποκρύπτεται, τον σπισισμό της κατανάλωσης κάποιων μη ανθρώπινων ζώων χτίζοντας παράλληλα σχέσεις με κάποια άλλα? Ή οι συνδεδεμένοι τρόποι που βλέπει η κοινωνία τα μη ανθρώπινα ζώα σαν να είναι ο χαμηλότερος κοινός παρονομαστής για να συγκριθούν αυτά με την καταπιεσμένη κατηγορία? Πως στο διάολο μια αντιεξουσιαστική πρακτική σταματάει στην εμπορευματοποίηση των σωμάτων -ανθρώπινων και μη (αλλά σε αυτή την περίπτωση των μη ανθρώπινων)- που είναι εμπορευματοποιημένα και δικαιολογείται η υποδούλωση, η δολοφονία και η κατανάλωση τους.

Όσον αφορά τη στήριξη των κρατουμένων και την κατάργηση των φυλακών,που είναι η αναγνώριση με -και αλληλέγγυοι με- τα εκατομμύρια (μη ανθρώπινα ζώα) που παραμένουν φυλακισμένα στα σφαγεία με θανατικές ποινές, με τη δικαιολογία της ζήτησης για ακρωτηριασμένα και καλοσυσκευασμένα πτώματα? Η αναγνώριση του υπαρξιακού αγώνα ενάντια ενάντια στη φυλακή και την κυριαρχία περιορίζεται στην ανθρώπινη υπεροχή. Όταν η αναρχία αποτυγχάνει στο να συμπεριλάβει την απελευθέρωση της άγριας ζωής πέρα από την περιορισμένη ανθρώπινη υπεροχή, είναι απλά ένας ανθρωποκεντρικός ρεφορμισμός ο οποίος δεν μπορεί να καταστρέψει τη λογική του ελέγχου και της κυριαρχίας.

Η κοινωνία είναι νεκρή από τότε που δημιουργήθηκε. Ο θάνατος και αδιαφορία για τα μη ανθρώπινα ζώα χτίζονται με τον σχεδιασμό των αυτοκινητοδρόμων, των σιδηροδρόμων, της γεωργίας και κάθε άλλης μορφής
δομικού ανθρωποκεντρισμού.Υποστηρίζω την κατάρρευση του δομικού ανθρωποκεντρισμού και την χειραφέτηση της φύσης Η οικειοποίηση είναι μια διαδικασία για μια εσωτερικευμένη αυτοματοποίηση, με μια αίσθηση υπεροχής προς την άγρια φύση που εκδηλώνεται θεσμικά με την συμπεριφορά που έχει ο άνθρωπος πάνω στα ζώα. Απορρίπτω αυτή τη λογική μαζί με την παραδοχή ότι τα μη ανθρώπινα ζώα είναι απλά προϊόντα τροφής για κυνήγι και κατανάλωση- μια λογική που αγνοεί τα δικά τους ατομικά συμφέροντα και την σωματική τους αυτονομία. Απορρίπτω τον ανθρωπισμό, τον αυταρχικό του ρόλο και παραδόσεις και την καθορισμένη του ταυτότητα που περιορίζει τις δυνατότητες μου για να εξερευνήσω το δικό μου ζωώδες ένστικτο πέρα από την πολιτισμένη εξημέρωση.

Υπάρχει πόλεμος εναντίον της κοινωνίας, μαζί με τα μη ανθρώπινα ζώα τα οποία αρνούνται την εξημέρωση, την υποταγή, την εκδίωξη από τα σπίτια τους
λόγω της μαζικής αποψίλωσης, της ανθρώπινης ανάπτυξης και της τεχνολογίας. Ο βιγκανισμός με εμπόδιο τον φιλελευθερισμό αποτυγχάνει να αναγνωρίσει τον καπιταλιστικό και βιομηχανικό πολιτισμό ως μια μαζική προσωποποίηση της ανθρωποκεντρικής κυριαρχίας. Η αναρχία που αδυνατεί να αμφισβητήσει τον σπισισμό σε ατομικό επίπεδο αναπαράγει τις εσωτερικευμένες αυταρχικές αξίες της ανθρώπινης κυριαρχίας. Από τότε που ο σπισισμός είναι διαδεδομένος στην κοινωνία, προστατεύεται και συντηρείται από την καθησυχαστική κανονικοποίηση- μια κανονικοποίηση που βοηθά την πλύση εγκεφάλου και την απάθεια. Η σύγκρουση είναι απαραίτητη για την εκτροπή της κοινωνικής και καθιερωμένης άνεσης και της ηθικής τάξης της κυριαρχίας στα μη ανθρώπινα ζώα. Ο δικός μου αναρχοβιγκανισμός ενσαρκώνει την αλληλεγγύη όχι μόνο με τον τρόπο που τρέφομαι, αλλά και με την οπλισμένη επίθεση. Μια επίθεση που καθορίζεται από τις ουσιαστικές ενέργειες μιας εμπρηστικής επιθυμίας καταστρέφοντας την κοινωνική παρουσία της ανθρώπινης υπεροχής.

-Flower Bomb

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Μετάφραση Traces of Fire

 

Veganism From A Nihilist and Anti-Civilization Perspective -Archegonos-

This text is aiming for the destabilization of the
term veganism through moral and social, even
political chains and illustrates that if it doesn’t
align with a totally hostile consciousness
towards the existent, then it doesn’t cease to be
another hoax or delusion.

That is to say if the persons using this tool have
made that another morality or don’t take some
risks with acts of attack (this can take many
forms not only physical) or chaotic disruption
then it remains mud inside the swamp where it
came from. -Archegonos

What is veganism? Another morality? Another alternative of society? Another
swampy lake inside the infinite sea of the abomination of the existent? Most of
its aspects are moralistic and anthropocentric. From this part not even the
anarchists can escape. Veganism as a passive form of “struggle” neglects to
consider many things from my point of view. Now someone could tell me it is
exactly the same since you are a vegan. But no. My start is completely different.
Instead of a form of struggle I would specify that as a form of abstinence from
one of the wheels of civilization and capitalism with the admittance of its
problematics in the present reality. Because as a struggle, from whom and
towards whom would that be? A struggle of the civilized human towards yet
another subject of exploitation could be nothing more than as sterile as many
others. A victimization. On the other hand as an individualist choice of
conscious abstinence and negation of the part of the existent that sees our
comrades as raw material it becomes a dynamic choice. There is no “good” or
“evil” for me. Inside the system of capitalism I deny the decadence which
emanates from prisons and the tyranny of the life of the non-human animals. In
another non-systematized world I would not deny, if the circumstances of
survival demanded that, to use anything from whichever living organism. If I
needed that and I was stronger I would prevail. With respect for the lives of my
non-enemies. So a form of abstinence and anti-necrosis of my ego from the
imprisonment, commercialization and trivialization of non–human life from the
endless and infinite notion of civilization. Not as “embargo” to the industry of
meat which would have no meaning for me because afterwards you will find
yourself nonetheless entangled in the wheels of another industry. These have no
meaning for me anyways since the economics are a part of this system and have
nothing to offer me. I want to destroy economy not to use it politically. Not as a
choice of “good” or “bad” since I do not acknowledge any form of moral
normality that comes from social or cultural structures, nor do I care about
morality at all. So it is just a tool one can use given the current circumstances
and nothing more. It is the closest approach for my individuality that has
negated anthropocentrism.

Anyway you cannot be 100% vegan or keep an attitude towards the earth that
you might have wanted through a system that everything is assimilable and we
have seen that many times. Being an anarchist you realize quickly that
everything inside the system of the state and civilization is your enemy. You
find yourself in a constant war. All of the basic need products inside the system
will either be made out of non-human animals that have died for the needs of
consumerism and the various companies which enslave our lives, or will be
toxic or non-degradable by the earthly environment, or will be the products of
the vegan or environmentalist companies which there is being played another
game of profit and consumerism approaching the moral or lifestyle consumers
and creating other societies, assimilable, and of course controllable by the
system. Even if you choose tactics, let’s say as an example to expropriate shoes,
you could avoid to contribute to the economic part of the system of consumerism but you will never be certain of whether or not you have avoided
the fact that the shoes you stole could most likely have on them materials that
are toxic or non-degradable (and would have been made in a way that pollutes
the earthly environment), or even to have glue on them that uses extracted
products from prisoner non-human animals. The systems of exploitation and
destruction of the civilized man towards everything we love is endless. So as a
nihilist and with conscience for total liberation anarchist individual, I don’t see
veganism and my awareness about the earth through any moral chains which
would be easily assimilable by the system (the system includes laws, institutions,
morals, state, society, civilization etc.) and I consider it ridiculous even for
myself to play the game of politics, of looking to find the vegan products or
those friendly to the environment inside the system of ultimate exploitation and
trivialization of anything free and alive that exists. Therefore I am a vegan out of
personal conscience, given the current circumstances, without becoming a monk,
trying in any way and as much as I can to abstain from the dominant
anthropocentric decadence of life in this world. The anti-civilization conscience
is just another part of the esoteric of the individuality that acknowledges no other entity above the individual and his/her/their desires, analyzing the earth as a chaotic integral part of existence and reappraises his/her/their relation to it and all the other individualities.

Only through spontaneity, the negation of what we have been taught including
all values and ideals coming from society, oneself’s uniqueness and critical
thinking, moments of attack and self-fulfillment and I could also say the coming
closer to the earthly environment, I could see a meaning of existence (personal
meaning, not as an objective truth) of my individuality.

Veganism is clearly only a tool against some systems. For the other forms of
liberation of each individuality each one of us can invent his/her/their own ways.
There is no singular effective way/means. We set targets, we are patient, we use
every material and means against the enemy and with whatever power we have
been left with and whenever we can we attack like the eagle without any moral
barriers nor respect for their lives. Not for a “greater purpose”, but for the time
that has been stolen from us. Away from moralistic claims like “meat is murder”
I feel the need to attack everything that attacks my aesthetic perception and
doesn’t leave me to get pleasure from my surroundings. I don’t have the need to
criticize the comrade who does not follow the methods of veganism for
his/her/their own reasons, but has developed a deep analysis against the existent, (although meat eating and the use of non-human animals is the most dominant form of living on the planet), insomuch as this comrade will have reached a state of consciousness through critical thinking which will not leave him/her/their to fall into complacency with his/her/their choices or consider one way of living inferior or superior, normal or abnormal. I will criticize though for sure all those who do not question the mass habits of living as well as all the anarchists whose criticism of veganism originates only from the idol of the anthropocentric world.

Veganism From A Nihilist and Anti-Civ Perspective pdf

(Source: warzonedistro.noblogs.org)

 

“The myth of veganism”

“Veganism is a philosophy of life that excludes all forms of exploitation and cruelty to the animal kingdom and includes a reverence for life. In practice it is applied following a pure vegetarian diet and encourages the use of alternatives for all matters derived partially or totally from animals”
Donald Watson, founding member of the Vegan Society.

This little text will not question the irrationality of the ideas and values ​​(2) of vegan philosophy. This time we will demonstrate that veganism is a myth in the Technoindustrial Society and how it is a hindrance to understand and act for the true Animal Liberation (3).

Veganism is a myth. Nothing, nor anyone, is vegan within the modern Technoindustrial Society. However, there are many naive people who believe in this myth, believe that their food, clothing, footwear, hygiene and beauty products, technological devices, books, music, bikes … and all the industrial garbage that they compulsively consume is “vegan” . But in reality this is not so. All that industrial garbage called “vegan”, can not contain materials of non-human animals, okay, but do contain or, rather, do collaborate with anima and humanl exploitation.

Thus, if we return to our earlier definition of veganism, “… a philosophy of life that excludes all forms of exploitation and cruelty to the animal kingdom …”, it is evident that it is not consistent with philosophy, because it collaborates with the systematic exploitation of Animal kingdom, so veganism is a myth. The so-called “vegans” are very naive in not analyzing, questioning and understanding the functioning of the complex reality, and the large and complex social system in which we live. Any food or product that comes from the modern Tecnoindustrial Society, is not free to collaborate with the systematic exploitation and domestication of the animal and environmental kingdom.

The seeds, fruits and vegetables produced and distributed by the modern Technoindustrial Society are not vegan, since modern industrial agriculture needs:

A) Deforest large tracts of fertile land to take advantage of the fertility of that soil and turn it into a field of cultivation. Deforest means; Destroy the ecosystem that occupied that soil. The vegetation of that ecosystem must be felled or burned. Then, it is necessary to assassinate, capture, domesticate, displace or even extinguish the different species of animals of that ecosystem. This obliterates all the very complex relationships and interactions that the ecosystem itself (ecosystem and inhabitants) maintained, and the relationship that ecosystem maintained with other ecosystems, and with the planet in general.

B) Since the field is ready, peasants are required to work the land, their tools are needed (machines or non-human working animals), seeds (native or transgenic) are needed to be planted, Fertilizers (natural or industrial), irrigation water is needed, etc. Once the harvest is obtained, it is sold to the intermediaries, they will transport it, store it and distribute it until Finally that seed, fruit or vegetable, arrives at the commercial establishment where the “vegans” will buy them.

In order to complete this process, it is necessary to use the great and complex division of labor of the modern Technological Society, and in all these large and complex relationships there is systematic exploitation and domestication of the animal and environmental kingdom. Some “vegans” will be able to argue in their defense that the seeds, fruits and vegetables that they consume, are not of industrial origin, but of an organic orchard, okay, but if that orchard uses modern technology for the production, storage and distribution of its foods , And if in order to acquire them there is money circulation, it inevitably continues to collaborate with the dynamics of systematic animal and ecological exploitation and domestication. Maybe vegan seeds, fruits and vegetables are the ones that would harvest oneself with techniques like; Permaculture or organic gardening, and using simple tools or technology. Since only then, it would cease to depend on the Technoindustrial System, and its mechanisms of power, control, domestication and systematic exploitation would be abandoned, but most of the self-described “vegans” do not sow their own food.

The self-called “vegans” depend on the modern Techno-Industrial Society to carry out their diet. In Wild Nature no animal determines how it will be fed, this is largely determined by the natural environment in which it develops. The omnivorous diet of human animals has not been a choice, but a necessity for survival, a requirement to survive in different environments, to eat what there is, what can be eaten. The human organism is not a specialist, it is opportunistic, and its omnivorous diet proves it. The human animal domesticated in its civilized cage is able to decide how to feed itself (vegetarian, vegan, frugivorous or carnivorous diet), but for this to be possible, it needs to collaborate and maintain its status as a domesticated human animal in the service of the progress of the Technological System .

No vegetarian, vegan or frugivore, would survive as the really free human animal that should be, in the environment where it should be developed (Wild Nature), with that type of diet.

Most self-called “vegans”, perhaps, do not consider themselves as what they really are: human animals. And it is also very true that those who fight for “Animal Liberation”, do not fight for their own Wild Individual Freedom, do not question at all their own condition of domesticated human animals. If the seeds, fruits and vegetables offered by the modern Tecnoindustrial Society are not vegans, much less their other harmful products of industrial origin: clothing, footwear, hygiene and beauty products, books, music, bikes … A similar analysis could be applied To products deceptively called “green” or “ecological”. No product from the modern Technoindustrial Society is vegan, not even ecological.

The so-called “vegans” can continue to deceive, and deceiving themselves, they can continue to depend on the System of domestication and systematic exploitation. They may continue to denounce the conditions of slavery of non-human animals, without seeing or denouncing their own status as domesticated human animals in the service of Technological Progress. They see the cages of the other animals, but they are so blind to see the modern civilized cage in which we live. They can continue to fight futilely for “Animal Liberation”, without first fighting for their own Individual Wild Freedom. It is quite funny how a domesticated animal intends to free other animals. They will be able to continue defending and promoting the ideas and values ​​of the Technological System (leftism), seeking only to improve it with its useless reforms, and not to destroy it definitively. They may continue to compulsively consume their products, or, supposedly vegan, industrial harmful foods.

All this will only fool and reassure your consciousness in some way, but in reality it will do nothing to try to attack the domestication and systematic exploitation of the animal kingdom. Nor much less do anything against the domestication, devastation and systematic artificialization of Wild Nature. Faced with the irrational fraud resulting from vegan theory and practice, we have decided to renounce unnecessary consumption, to reuse the materials already produced and to stop depending on the Technological System, developing our own self-sufficient way of life, far from the values ​​of the Civilized cage and as close to our Individual Freedom and Wilderness.

For True Animal Liberation
Fire to the cages, fire to Civilization

Feral Revolution
Spring 2013

Notes:

(1) These ideas and values ​​are: sentimentalist animalism, anti-speciesism, biocentrism, hedonism, religion, leftism, the supposed naturalness of vegetarianism in human animals, social ecology, misanthropy, etc.

(2) When we speak of veganism in this text, we refer to all its “different” slopes, from “bourgeois veganism” to the so-called “anarchoveganism.” And from the movement for the “Animal Liberation” reformist, to the movement for “Animal Liberation” abolitionist or radical (ALF – Animal Liberation Front- ). ALF activists may argue that they are not reformists because they do actions, but the truth is that they are identical to those who make up the movement for the reformist “Animal Liberation” that they criticize so much. They are reformists for defending and promoting the same values ​​of the Technological System (leftism), they do not seek to destroy the Technological System, they only try to improve it, and the worst thing is that they are not aware of it.

(3) By Animal Liberation we mean: Human animals and not, who develop their life in Freedom, in their Natural and Wild habitat.

(Via: animusdelendi ONLY WITH TOR)