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76. Do You Know Where Your Taxes Are Going? Big Ag vs. Supply and Demand w. Connie Spence (Agriculture Fairness Alliance)
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In this episode, Mexie speaks with Connie Spence (aka Vegan Batgirl), founder of the Agriculture Fairness Alliance and Liberation 360, organizations that work to lobby policymakers to change the laws that govern industrial agriculture and educate the public around how Big Ag operates. As Connie aptly points out, laws aren’t changed in the grocery store, and our taxes largely cancel out any good done through consumer-based activism for animal liberation. We cover a lot in this conversation, including novel zoonotic diseases that are a direct result of animal agriculture, and end on a high note with the progress being made by the Agriculture Fairness Alliance in lobbying for institutional change.
Sources and Links
* Agriculture Fairness Alliance: https://www.agriculturefairnessalliance.org/* Connie on IG (Vegan Batgirl): https://www.instagram.com/vegan_batgirl/* Agriculture Fairness Alliance on IG: https://www.instagram.com/agfairnessalliance/* Liberation360 on IG: https://www.instagram.com/liberation_360/
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F1: [MUSIC] How can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet?
F2: There’s an us before the wound, there’s an us before oppression, and to me pleasure is the way that we tap down into that.
F3: We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
MEXIE: Hello everyone. Welcome to the Total Liberation Podcast. I’m your host Mexie, and today we have on the show someone who I have been talking about wanting to have on the show for a very long time; Connie Spence, AKA, Vegan BatGirl on Instagram, who is a founding member of the Agriculture Fairness Alliance and Liberation 360. We’re gonna talk today about basically the pitfalls of consumer-based activism and where your taxes are going. We talk a lot on this podcast about the systemic nature of human and animal oppression and about how consumer-based activism or consumer-based vegan activism in particular is not enough to save animals within the broader exploitative global capitalist political economy.
We’ve given a few examples over the years as to why that is, but now we’re really gonna dig into the laws that govern the animal agriculture industry, and like I said, where your taxes are going. For people who haven’t really looked that much into it, it’s incredibly, incredibly disturbing and could be a bit disheartening for people who maybe don’t have particularly developed leftist or anti-capitalist critiques of the system that we live in, but I think that this is such an important topic. It’s clearly a passion of Connie’s and it completely makes sense as to why, because we need to face the truth of how the system operates in order to be effective in dismantling it. I hope today that our conversation can shed light on that system and inspire everyone to think bigger with their activism, right?
Take aim at the actual root causes of systemic oppression to make sure that we effectively dismantle it together. So, before we get into the episode, I want to thank dearly our new patron subscribers. Thank you so much to Connor McCauley, Bevibel Harvey, Sydney Dallas-Main, Anna, Aleksndr, Kimberly Villaneda, and Paste.
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In this episode, Mexie speaks with Connie Spence (aka Vegan Batgirl), founder of the Agriculture Fairness Alliance and Liberation 360, organizations that work to lobby policymakers to change the laws that govern industrial agriculture and educate the public around how Big Ag operates. As Connie aptly points out, laws aren’t changed in the grocery store, and our taxes largely cancel out any good done through consumer-based activism for animal liberation. We cover a lot in this conversation, including novel zoonotic diseases that are a direct result of animal agriculture, and end on a high note with the progress being made by the Agriculture Fairness Alliance in lobbying for institutional change.
Sources and Links
* Agriculture Fairness Alliance: https://www.agriculturefairnessalliance.org/* Connie on IG (Vegan Batgirl): https://www.instagram.com/vegan_batgirl/* Agriculture Fairness Alliance on IG: https://www.instagram.com/agfairnessalliance/* Liberation360 on IG: https://www.instagram.com/liberation_360/
Support the Show
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F1: [MUSIC] How can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet?
F2: There’s an us before the wound, there’s an us before oppression, and to me pleasure is the way that we tap down into that.
F3: We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
MEXIE: Hello everyone. Welcome to the Total Liberation Podcast. I’m your host Mexie, and today we have on the show someone who I have been talking about wanting to have on the show for a very long time; Connie Spence, AKA, Vegan BatGirl on Instagram, who is a founding member of the Agriculture Fairness Alliance and Liberation 360. We’re gonna talk today about basically the pitfalls of consumer-based activism and where your taxes are going. We talk a lot on this podcast about the systemic nature of human and animal oppression and about how consumer-based activism or consumer-based vegan activism in particular is not enough to save animals within the broader exploitative global capitalist political economy.
We’ve given a few examples over the years as to why that is, but now we’re really gonna dig into the laws that govern the animal agriculture industry, and like I said, where your taxes are going. For people who haven’t really looked that much into it, it’s incredibly, incredibly disturbing and could be a bit disheartening for people who maybe don’t have particularly developed leftist or anti-capitalist critiques of the system that we live in, but I think that this is such an important topic. It’s clearly a passion of Connie’s and it completely makes sense as to why, because we need to face the truth of how the system operates in order to be effective in dismantling it. I hope today that our conversation can shed light on that system and inspire everyone to think bigger with their activism, right?
Take aim at the actual root causes of systemic oppression to make sure that we effectively dismantle it together. So, before we get into the episode, I want to thank dearly our new patron subscribers. Thank you so much to Connor McCauley, Bevibel Harvey, Sydney Dallas-Main, Anna, Aleksndr, Kimberly Villaneda, and Paste.