Animal Rights Losers Attack Human Food Supply
When people are struggling to have enough to eat, it’s good to know that activists are working to make it harder for them.
An Infoshop News post says,
In the early morning of July 23 our cell decided to return to attack exploiters of innocent animals, entering their slaughterhouse, we sprayed gasoline on the tires of a truck, creating chaos and fear to those people who make their living from the suffering of others. The fire spread throughout the complex, leaving machines of enslavement and torture unusable. This is the 4th attack targeting trucks at this SLAUGHTERHOUSE in our town…
This time the target was a dairy shop and warehouse. The darkness of the night was lit by the flame of subversion; with the use of 2 incendiary devices and a little extra gasoline the site was burned; one device was placed in the main door and the other in the window, leaving the electricity and the fabric sign for the place damaged and as if this action was not enough the walls were also painted using paint bombs and spraypaint.
Advocating different treatment of nonhuman beings is one thing. But don’t pretend it’s revolutionary to make life harder for the productive class – authoritarians have been doing just that for millennia – “If you oppose us then we’ll wipe out your food supply!”
It would be funny if those who value the well-being of humans less than the well-being of inferior animals had their houses destroyed and turned into a more favorable habitat for reasonless beasts.
July 30th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Is this a serious post? In a society where fruits and vegetables that don’t “look right” are thrown in the trash, where farmers are paid to destroy crops, where “expired” foods are destroyed, this is what you choose to complain about in terms of access to food?
It can take up to 16 pounds of grain to get one pound of meat. 70% of grain and cereals grown in the US go to feed livestock. Meat wastes food, that’s the bottom line.
Sounds like you just don’t like animal rights activists, but you’ll need better rationale than this.
July 30th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
>Is this a serious post? In a society where fruits and vegetables that don’t “look right” are thrown in the trash, where farmers are paid to destroy crops, where “expired” foods are destroyed, this is what you choose to complain about in terms of access to food?
I choose to complain about whatever I feel like. I’ve shared Carson articles on food before. Am I supposed to list everything that’s wrong with the world in one post?
>It can take up to 16 pounds of grain to get one pound of meat. 70% of grain and cereals grown in the US go to feed livestock. Meat wastes food, that’s the bottom line.
Destroying food production facilities wastes food. I’d like to see decentralized, sustainable electricity generation but attacking a power plant isn’t going to get there. Politics, not meat, are the reason people don’t get enough to eat.
I also think it’s ridiculous how nobody criticizes these things when they’re posted on Infoshop. Maybe there’s no prohibition listed in The FAQ or something.
July 30th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Ah, I see.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:02 am
“Politics, not meat, are the reason people don’t get enough to eat.”
Exactly, so how is destroying a slaughterhouse taking food out of the mouths of the working class? Will there be no food for them at the grocery store the next day? And why is attacking those who profit from food a bad thing?
I agree you can complain about whatever you want, but it should make some sense. The notion that the ALF attacks a slaughterhouse, therefore workers have food taken from them doesn’t make sense.
And I don’t read infoshop cause it’s too slow and mostly garbage.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:52 am
> Exactly, so how is destroying a slaughterhouse taking food out of the mouths of the working class? Will there be no food for them at the grocery store the next day?
No it’s not a disaster, but disrupting the current food supply certainly can’t help.
>And why is attacking those who profit from food a bad thing?
I don’t think it’s bad to profit from food. Everyone acts in what he believes to be his self-interest, so profiting just adds motivation. When one person profits from food it doesn’t prevent another from eating. But I take subjective theory of value to radical extremes, and hold that creating a better community is a form of profit.
Profiting from using force to cartelize the food market is evil on an almost absurd level.
>The notion that the ALF attacks a slaughterhouse, therefore workers have food taken from them doesn’t make sense.
As I touched on earlier in this response, when the current food supply is disrupted, the poor suffer. I contend that people eating meat doesn’t harm the poor, as there are plenty of resources for producing and distributing food in the world, but they are inefficiently monopolized by those privileged by the state. Refraining from meat consumption will do little to change this situation. The bottom line is that people should be able to choose what to eat so long as their choices do not take unjustly from others.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:55 am
Scott, the Infoshop comment wasn’t directed at you. I find it a valuable news source, but get annoyed at what is left unchallenged there when so many other things are analyzed and attacked. So that explains my motivation to complain about this issue instead of issues already covered by other anti-authoritarians.