How We Win: Achieving Animal Liberation in Our Lifetime

I was lying awake in the middle of the night last night worrying about the current coup dismantling our institutions in the US, and realized: There are probably so many other people loosing sleep with me right now. All of our hearts are racing. We each feel powerless. It made me feel better enough to sleep. This morning Vas and I were talking and we realized we needed to jump on the mic and just get this out today. So there are two more voices letting you know that you are not alone.

Referenced in the episode:

AOC’s livestream from February 3rd

Don’t Believe Him by Ezra Klein

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We discuss animal realism, the phenomenon that many see a vegan world as “unrealistic” and so do not actually fight for it, but for other half-measures and even weird and dystopian “solutions” to the environmental and moral atrocities of meat production.

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

This Chinese cockroach farm houses a billion roaches, kept contained by a moat filled with hungry fish

videos: Cockroach Farm

Cockroaches a cash cow for Chinese farmer who breeds them for food and medicine

The Insect Farmer

cockroach scene from the dystopian movie Snowpeircer

For more from Vasile on colonialism and meat and dairy:

- White Power Milk: Dietary Racism and the Alt Right

- The Whopper Virgins: Hamburgers, Gender, and Xenophobia in Burger King’s Advertising

You can also listen to this talk on Animal Realism

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Lego Experiment about meaningful work

Water Use and Animal Agriculture

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CW: The episode discusses sexual violence towards other animals. Some of this episode is tough to talk about.

Referenced in the episode:

Joel Salatin wrote Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal

Here's an example of the industry talking about beef with adjectives.

Open Prairie Pork FAQ "Do the hogs live on an open pasture?: No — simply because hogs need protection from predators and extreme temperatures. Since hogs have very little hair and no sweat glands, they’re sensitive to both heat and cold. That’s why hogs in the Open Prairie Natural Pork program are kept in climate-controlled barns where they get just the right amount of food, veterinarian care and attention."

Hit By A Farm

An article about the bestiality issue - The Meat Industry’s Bestiality Problem

Some of Vasile's research on humanewashing of meat:

Crocodile Tears

New Weapons

Why Loving Animals is Not Enough

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See earlier episode's show notes, particularly "Meat Eating is Climate Change Denial" for links to the studies showing that animal agriculture must be addressed if climate change is to be addressed.

Examples of possible effective policies:

Denmark Carbon Tax on Animal Ag

Peter Lehner at Earth Justice - does work on changing the farm bill

School Boards - school lunches, curricula, and so on

Call your congressperson about the farm bill, or any other issue that effects animals - use this link to find contact info

On Norm Setting:

Response to the claim that only 2% of US is vegan

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Chicken Plus from Perdue

A positive article about Quorn blended meat from a vegan publication

The number of land animals slaughtered each year is now higher than the number we cited in the episode. It has grown to 92 billion.

The Morality of Meatlessness: Why Children Choose Vegetarianism

Response to the claim that only 2% of US is vegan

Veganism in the city of Ghent

Bruce Friedrich praising Tyson (smh)

Watch this talk for more on the topic of fighting for what we actually believe in

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Chipotle's ads (In case you don't know what the heck we are on about): Back to the Start and The Scarecrow.

The podcast where the host jokes he has an agenda to keep eating beef - Climate Curious

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Sources of facts at the top of the show:

Substituting beans for beef as a contribution toward US climate change targets

Veganism is the most important individual action for the climate - (Joseph Poore, study of farms in 119 countries)

Even without fossil fuels, our food systems will put us past 1.5 degrees and probably 2 degrees

Other sources mentioned:

Volts: The Farm Bill is the most important climate bill the Congress will pass

Methane is responsible for 30% of the warming so far

Not mentioned in the episode, but for further content on meat and climate change from Vasile, start with this talk: The World is on Fire

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Books mentioned in the episode:

Barbed Wire by Reviel Netz

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

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Read and watch more of Vasile's research and join our community at winforanimals.org