VEGANARCHISMNICK PENDERGRAST

I’M NOT THE FIRST, WON’T BE THE LAST

• ACTIVISM, RESEARCH, TEACHING.

ANARCHISM• Very broad – my interpretation.• Anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian.• ‘Anarchism holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, or harmful.’• ‘Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies often

defined as self-governed voluntary institutions, but that several authors have defined as more specific institutions based on non-hierarchical free associations. ’• Rejection of hierarchy.

VEGANISM• 1944. • 1951.

SOME INITIAL LINKS• Rejecting hierarchy.• Individual solutions.• #NotAllSocialists.• Creating a new world in the shell of the old (IWW, Graeber).

DO IT YOURSELF!

VEGANISM AND CONSUMERISM

• Society can be shaped by the consumer’s economic vote – political act.• Access eg socioeconomic status.• Functions within and supports

capitalism.

If I hear the "consumers have all the power, vote with your dollar"line again, I'll scream!

STRUCTURE, AGENCY AND VEGANISM

GARY FRANCIONE• Individuals create the

demand for animal products.

• Individuals becoming vegan = reduce the demand.

ANTHONY NOCELLA

• Corporations create the demand for animal products.

• Capitalism produces inequalities = socio-economic barriers to veganism.Agency Structure

Followed on Twitter by @VeganCapitalist

ANIMAL PHILOSOPHIES AND ANARCHISM

Statist, Accepts Hierarchies Anarchist, Rejects Hierarchies

Animal welfare Animal rights Eco-feminism,Feminist ethicsOf care

Animal liberation

HOW TO MAKE VEGAN ADVOCACY MORE ANARCHIST

• Broader definition of veganism – rejecting human supremacy.• Rejection of all hierarchy – intersectionality.• Situate animal (and human) oppression within capitalism.• Question the effectiveness of state solutions eg animal rights (pattrice jones).

HOW TO MAKE ANARCHIST ADVOCACY MORE VEGAN

• More vegans in anarchist spaces/advocacy.• Situating veganism within an anti-oppression, anti-hierarchical framework.• Genuine intersectionality.

SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION

• www.ProgressivePodcastAustralia.com – episode 54.