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The traditional advocates of nonhuman animal ethics, such as Peter Singer, would attempt to understand these practices under a utilitarian calculus of suffering—for instance, do “humane” farming practices cause more or less suffering for individual nonhuman animals than a factory farm system (Singer 2002)? And, as already conceded, under such a calculus, such action can appear relatively benign. (Indeed, Singer himself has come to the defense of “humane meat.”) However, I would like to ask a very different question: namely, what are the effects on the individual subjecthood of those who raise and slaughter their own nonhuman animals? What if we understand the individual raising and killing of nonhuman animals as a “disciplinary” tactic designed to foster a certain individual subject who engages in such actions? If merely standing in a particular manner can shape one’s subjecthood, how much more so would the actions of individual engaging in killing? If power is, as Foucault claims, “always productive,” what, exactly, do the power relations of personally killing nonhuman animals “produce” within the human subject?...

To bring this chapter full circle, I would ask the same question that we asked about the practice of “humane meat,” but from the opposite direction, about the practices of ethical (or engaged) veganism. Again from a purely utilitarian perspective, the act of saving one (or two, or five) nonhuman animals’ lives would seem negligible in a global system of production that kills over 60 billion a year. But what we must understand is not the simple arithmetic calculus of such actions, but how such actions shape the subjecthood of the practitioners. If killing a nonhuman animal can shape a particular subject, how can being vegan shape one in another, wholly different direction?

"New Weapons: “Humane Farming,” Biopolitics, and the Post-Commodity Fetish", Vasile Stănescu

if every time i complain about cis people/transphobia around my cis friends i had to put a big asterisk saying "oh but not you honey you could never do any harm to people with less power than you and you definitely don't benefit from systemic oppression that very explicitly gives you more legal rights and access to resources than i have" that would be a clear sign that they are not as transfriendly as they demand to be told they are. this is a post about trans women in predominantly tme spaces.

i don't want my transfem friends to have to tell me "but not you though" every two sentences when they're venting. i don't want my transfem friends to be scared of me.

This post keeps coming across my dash and idk how to tell u guys but if you’re looking up literally anything on Wikipedia where reality contradicts the imperialist narrative, you’ll find that the power of CIA-affiliated NGO Hitlerism to create easily disprovable disinformation far outweighs the capacity of fully-weaponized autistic pedantry to keep the information on that site reliable.

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