Fascism is, in many ways, the opposite of veganism. This episode is longer than usual, because of just how many ways. We tried to be comprehensive, to give you the tools to talk about these connections, however we still have a lot of things we wish we’d thought of and added. But this conversation is just beginning. I hope this gives you some entry points to thinking about your own anti-fascist solidarity efforts.

Books and other sources referenced in the episode:

Eugenics (and ableism)

Book: Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy by Roberto Esposito

Book: Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation by Sunaura Taylor - If you read only one book we recommend in any episode, let it be this one!

An example of Singer being protested for eugenical ideas - lets have leaders of the vegan movement that embrace solidarity with everyone that is marginalized

Misogyny

Book: The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams

Confinement and Technologies of Control

Book: Barbed Wire by Reviel Netz

Citizenship and The State of Exception, aka “loopholes”

Book: State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben

Bestiality loophole for farmed animals: The Meat Industries Bestiality Problem

Slavery loophole for incarcerated humans

EO: Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship - an attempt to strip certain people of birthright citizenship and create a state of exception - if this does not cross the line into fascism, what would?

Empathy

Fighting in the Dark by A R Moxon - let’s do what fascists can’t do

Book: The Lives of Animals by J. M. Coetzee

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