eating animals presentation
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Eating Animals Gaia Radio Call
Nicole Vosper, MSc Political Agroecology Pre-Cap Tuesday 12th May 2015
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Aims of the call• To introduce the complex and dynamic
worldviews that impact on the species we share this world with, most significantly, a handful of animal species that have been domesticated, farmed and slaughtered to feed the world’s populations.
• To share my research, thinking and action learning around animal-human social relations.
• To create a safe space for conversations - supporting everyone to share their worldview, opinions & experiences.
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Who I am• Vegan 13 years
• Stock-free grower / Permaculture designer
• White/privileged
• Animal liberation organiser
• Deeply embedded world views around animals
• Triggered to go vegan by family farming connections - battery hen experience
Output challenge: Open mind to world views of others, think critically, evaluate own beliefs
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Who are you?
Current worldview?
First conscious experience of
animals for food
First connection with animal (not
food)
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What is a worldview?
Most broadly, a worldview is a particular philosophy of life or conception of the world. It is a mental model of reality — a framework of ideas & attitudes about the world, ourselves, and life, a comprehensive system of beliefs.
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My methodology• Literature review - especially
to support me to navigate world views different to my own
• Processing historical experiences/observations
• Tracking observations through action learning
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‘Animal workers’Dr Wilkie writes how “animals can be located and relocated along a status continuum that ranges from commodity to companion, whereby the same animal may at times be seen by the same worker, or by a different worker, as a tool of the trade, a work colleague, a friend, or even a pet.”
Key point: complex & dynamic
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‘Animal workers’
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CarnismDr Melanie Joy:
Carnism is a belief system that conditions us to eat certain animals.
Based on the field of psychology
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Carnism• How we classify an
animal • Schemas dictate what
is/isn’t edible. Protects us from discomfort.
• Invisibility • Humans always avoided
eating certain animals & sought reconciliation of those they do
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Carnism• Entrenched becomes
common sense • Natural, normal, necessary • Psychological tools:
denial, avoidance, routinization, justification, objectification, deindividualisation, dichotomization, rationalisation and disassociation
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Neocarnism• ‘Happy meat’, ‘Free range’, RegenAG, ‘Holistic
Management’ • Willingness to examine industrial animal agriculture • “Carnistic backlash” (Joy) • People influenced by existing carnist upbringing,
fear of loosing privilege/being in minority, personal/professional status, desire for relationships with animals, dislike for political movements for animals, gender, class, ‘softness’, authenticity e.g. ‘real’ farmer, lower status of horticulture
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Capitalist• Maximisation of profit e.g
CAFOs • Accumulation of wealth • Animals as commodities • Reproductive control • Animal manipulation &
modification e.g. agricultural biotechnology, genome sequencing of animals and animal cloning
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Animal Welfare• Humans have a
right/entitlement to use animals
• However they should be treated better
• Example: Five freedoms (hunger/thirst, discomfort, pain/injury/disease, express normal behaviour, fear/distress)
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Animal Rights• Tom Reagon -
Intrinsic value (a value in themselves without reference to human needs)
• Speciesism is what privileges one group over another
• Peter Singer - utilitarianism (best for majority)
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Abolitionists• Animals have right not to be
treated as property of others
• Against reform/improved regulation
• Veganism as moral baseline • Sentience alone • Non-violence, vegan
advocacy • Intersectional
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Feminists• Both animals and women
are dominated by the same patriarchical hierarchies e.g. consumption, objectification
• Draw comparisons between the role of reproductive labour and its exploitation to serve capitalism/patriarchy
• Care/empathy/respect vs. cartesian thinking
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Anarchism/Animal Liberation
• Commitment to eradicating all forms of domination & oppression
• Solidarity with non-humans • Animal agriculture played key role in
development & expansion of capitalism e.g. ‘cattle’
• Animals symbolic & physical force for colonisation
• Critique of consumerist/privileged/capitalist veganism
• State protects animal industries
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How do you feel?
What do you think?What came up
for you? (Distress/connection)
So many complex world views - what is yours?
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Further Resources
http://portfolios.gaiauniversity.org/view/view.php?id=7389
www.emptycagesdesign.org