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How is Veganism Anticolonial?

From back cover: The colonizer and the animal agriculture industry use the same logic. They identify difference, assert inferiority, and use the asserted inferiority to justify domination. Animal agriculture is colonialism applied to animals. Hunting is organized warfare applied to … Continue reading →

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Animal Colonialism in North America: Milk Colonialism, Environmental Racism and Indigenous Veganism

From back cover: “The Western hierarchical system that tends to divide people into categories was applied on nonhuman animals before it was applied on humans. “Wild animals” were placed below “domesticated animals” whose presence in the landscape was justified on … Continue reading →

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From Healing Herbs to Dangerous Drugs: Western Medicine’s War on the Natural World

From back cover: “Western medicine’s preference for the development and marketing of dangerous drugs over the earlier use of healing herbs is a direct product of its mechanistic beliefs. Rather than use the entire plant, western medicine prefers to isolate … Continue reading →

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Native Americans and Vegetarianism

From back cover: “How well we know the stereotype of the rugged Plains Indian: killer of buffalo, dressed in quill-decorated buckskin, elaborately feathered eaddress, and leather moccasins, living in an animal skin teepee, master of the dog and horse, and … Continue reading →

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The Killing Game: An Ecofeminist Critique of Hunting

From back cover: “Most hunters ignore the question of the animal’s subjective experience, defending their actions by reference to the purity of their own motives and desires, and, in particular, by presenting their desire to hunt as a need. Hunters … Continue reading →

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There Is No Respectful Way to Kill an Animal

From back cover: “The prayers and ceremonies do something for us, not the deer, at the very least not the same thing for the deer, and there is no way to escape the fundamental inequity of the relationship. I would … Continue reading →

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Towards An Indigenous Egoism

From back cover: “The idea of individualism that the European explorers and colonizers failed to realize was its rejection to duty, devotion and submission. I recognize no authority figure over me, nor do I aspire to any particular ideology. I … Continue reading →

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