"Animal liberation is not charity; it is solidarity. It’s recognizing that the same system exploiting animals is exploiting humans, and that we cannot defeat either of them in isolation. This is the deepest meaning of “slaughterhouse capitalism”: no fight against the slaughterhouses will ever be successful if we do not also confront capitalism. Likewise, no fight against capitalism will fully succeed unless we also fight against slaughterhouses. To use the language of a scholar for one second: they are “co-constitutive phenomena”—in other words, they make each other. That is the deepest point of this entire article. As a scholar who studies and critiques both forms of politics—fighting against speciesism and fighting against capitalism—I get pushback from both groups, all the time."
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Vasile Stanescu, How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism. ' (Sept/Oct 2025)
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