YAY to those who find it important to be conscious of how we treat animals as a society. Abusing animals in industry is another naturalized but also hidden practice with a lot of brutal realities obscured by the smooth surface of a cold-cut. YUM!

But this article takes moral stances and makes hierarchical value judgments that I can't stomache and that I think are violent abuses of power and privilege.

It starts out saying that all abuse of power is wrong. But all abuse of power isn't 'wrong' as I see it because I have a hard time using words like right and wrong when I've been told that most of the shit I like to do is wrong and bad.

And I was confused about this whole 'otherness' thing. Like how was their no problems with otherness until agriculture? Agriculture caused otherness? I think super-speculative narratives of history based on psuedo-anthropological abstractions cause otherness and I'm feeling other'ed right now!
I appreciate animal empathy but I am sick of holier than thou value schemes in left/anarchist scenes. I resent those that make a heirerchy of political causes with theirs at top. How much more divisive can you get?

Everyone makes choices about how their political expressions will manifest. There is no reason to believe that consciousness of speciesism (sic?) is objectively more important than other oppressions. Objectively to who? Everyone has their own set of political situations that make them feel personally oppositional. There is no 'real' cause of all the bad stuff in the world, if reality is mediated by power and doesn't exist beyond communities.

I'm all for veganism and I'm vegetarian but vegan snobbery worries me because it is intentionally exclusionary and constanstly sounds like a moral stance! Class War isn't the only thing that is 'really' going on, but neither is animal oppression! Someone who is eating a ham sandwhich at an antiwar protest isn't anymore hypocrtical than a vegan in sweatshop made clothes (and I don't care if the clothes are 'really' bought found or stolen, every made in korea 100% cotton black hoodie sends a message...)