I fucking hate this excuse. And I hate that it is used to justify any kind of first world lifestyle. Frozen shrimp coming from Thailand is fished by slave labour (theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jun/10/supermarket-prawns-thailand-produced-slave-labour). Is it equally (un)ethical to buy shrimp from your local fisherman as opposed to buy frozen shrimp from a supermarket, imported from Thailand? Or should we draw the line there and not buy things made with slave/unpaid labour? What about animal slavery?
If you aren't vegan, you can't call yourself a leftist. The only reason you want to continue eating meat and dairy products is because you have been socialised into wanting meat steaks, beef burgers, milk ice cream, etc. Plant-based alternatives exist for all these foods. If you weren't born in the 'West' in 21st century, you wouldn't even know what a burger is. And if it is not for that reason, maybe you think eating meat and dairy is somehow good for you, despite WHO classifying red meat as carcinogenic, despite studies showing red meat consumption linked to high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, and so on. Humans have existed for over 200,000 years, yet we've only been eating dairy products for the last couple of thousand. Do you think dairy products are indispensable, seeing as many people have developed intolerances for milk and dairy?
The animals we eat and use to make food are the proletarian animals, while the animals we keep as "companions" (pets) are the bourgeoisie. Notice how the empathy people display for cats and dogs is almost non-existent for working animals. Just how the owners of the means of production don't see workers as beings, but as sources of labour power, we don't see animals as beings, but as sources of food and labour power.
Shit, you're right, my cat purchases labour power of cows on the market and then uses said it to continue the cycle of capital accumulation by increasing the value of commodities and sell them with profit. What a bougie motherfucker
Oh shit, that means Hollywood actors, sports players and TV personalities, stock brokers, capital managers, and other millionaires who don't directly own any means of production or sell commodities on a market are working class! The poor struggling proles
Hunter Foster
you are what you eat :)
Xavier Cox
Unlike stock brokers, animals have no economic initiative which manifests itself in wanting to advance the M-C-M' you fucking retard.
