The bad takes on COVID wend across the poli\u00adti\u00adcal conti\u00adnuum into the more reco\u00adgni\u00adzable left. Superficially more groun\u00added ana\u00adto\u00admies of the cri\u00adsis have leapt atop the backs of the dead ani\u00admals and bro\u00adken land\u00adscapes that did indeed help pro\u00adduce the pan\u00adde\u00admic. But in a clas\u00adsic riding trick, the acro\u00adba\u00adtics sud\u00adden\u00adly switches mounts mid-ride to cha\u00adrac\u00adte\u00adris\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly Eurocentric hob\u00adby\u00adhorses from which to herald impe\u00adrium-old edicts on how to live, eat, and die.<\/p>\n
Should we eat meat, with source live\u00adstock an appa\u00adrent dri\u00adver in the emer\u00adgence of dead\u00adly patho\u00adgens ? Documentarian Astra Taylor, envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal his\u00adto\u00adrian Troy Vettese, and poli\u00adti\u00adcal scien\u00adtist Jan Dutkiewicz\u2014TVD, for brevity\u2019s sake\u2014answer in the nega\u00adtive : \u201cIndividually, we must stop eating ani\u00admal pro\u00adducts. Collectively, we must trans\u00adform the glo\u00adbal food sys\u00adtem and work toward ending ani\u00admal agri\u00adcul\u00adture and rewil\u00adding much of the world.\u201d With anthro\u00adpo\u00adge\u00adnic glo\u00adbal war\u00adming alrea\u00addy taking car\u00adbon dioxide levels through the roof, meat was alrea\u00addy an easy tar\u00adget. It\u2019s a synec\u00addoche for effete glut\u00adto\u00adny, the emblem of a glo\u00adbal class divide, an easy piece of fat\u2014and protein\u2014to trim from weal\u00adthier consump\u00adtion bas\u00adkets, and a neat way to merge indi\u00advi\u00addual ethi\u00adcal consump\u00adtion and world ecology.<\/p>\n
The anti-meat cru\u00adsade has appa\u00adrent\u00adly recei\u00adved an unin\u00adten\u00added and misu\u00adsed push from recent eco\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcal and epi\u00adde\u00admio\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcal work on the like\u00adly ori\u00adgins of the pan\u00adde\u00admic. These ana\u00adlyses tra\u00adced how the inter\u00adac\u00adtion across confi\u00adned ani\u00admal fee\u00adding ope\u00adra\u00adtions, mono\u00adcul\u00adture dop\u00adpel\u00adgan\u00adgers, fading forests, and anti\u00admi\u00adcro\u00adbial mari\u00adna\u00adtion has pro\u00addu\u00adced a petri dish of new diseases. Out of this com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adtion, one virus after ano\u00adther easi\u00adly jumps from ani\u00admal popu\u00adla\u00adtions to humans.<\/p>\n
Pre-pan\u00adde\u00admic, TVD fel\u00adlow tra\u00adve\u00adlers rejec\u00adted such poli\u00adti\u00adcal eco\u00adlo\u00adgy, which in their psy\u00adcho\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adzing dis\u00admis\u00adsal \u201coften roman\u00adti\u00adcizes what are seen as anti-modern sub\u00adsis\u00adtence live\u00adli\u00adhoods on the mar\u00adgins of glo\u00adbal capi\u00adta\u00adlism.\u201d But now, given the obvious rea\u00adli\u00adties on the ground, a pan\u00adde\u00admic strain that hops\u00adcot\u00adched from bat caves on the other side of the world into the lungs of urban wor\u00adkers they cham\u00adpion, the eco\u00admo\u00adder\u00adnists (again to no repu\u00adta\u00adtio\u00adnal damage given their gol\u00adden tickets) have tur\u00adned to fol\u00adding in the ana\u00adlyses they pre\u00advious\u00adly cha\u00adrac\u00adte\u00adri\u00adzed in the most scur\u00adri\u00adlous terms as if they appro\u00adved all along.<\/p>\n
Such systems\u2014these incu\u00adba\u00adtors for viruses, huge bio\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcal emit\u00adters of CO2 and methane, ram\u00adpant defo\u00adres\u00adters, and living beings suf\u00adfe\u00adring amid the cruel\u00adty of enclo\u00adsed indus\u00adtrial ani\u00admal camps\u2014merge into a pithy com\u00admand from TVD : No, don\u2019t eat meat. The team sug\u00adgests we plow \u201cpublic-direc\u00adted invest\u00adment\u201d into \u201cboth plant-based meat alter\u00adna\u00adtives and cel\u00adlu\u00adlar agri\u00adcul\u00adture,\u201d or, in other words, lab meat, a pro\u00adduct that so far exists pri\u00adma\u00adri\u00adly among ven\u00adture capi\u00adta\u00adlists, a few labs, and red-washed ad copy lau\u00adding it as a socia\u00adlist won\u00adder food from Keynesian Green New Deal cookshops.<\/p>\n
Key ques\u00adtions are grea\u00adsed over, res\u00adtric\u00adting, as socio\u00adlo\u00adgist Andy Murray des\u00adcribes, the very dis\u00adcourse lab meat pro\u00adpo\u00adnents claim they wish to open up. Who is this \u201cwe,\u201d for one, and even, what is meat ? Veganism and ani\u00admal rights, to which one needn\u2019t object as ethoses on their face, are reflexi\u00adve\u00adly deployed here to conflate objects and pro\u00adcesses. There is no thing, meat, that has uni\u00adform\u00adly nega\u00adtive eco\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcal, social, or epi\u00adde\u00admio\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcal conse\u00adquences. Meat only has in com\u00admon that it comes from living crea\u00adtures, and ani\u00admals, just like people, can only be fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adly unders\u00adtood in rela\u00adtion to the mate\u00adrial envi\u00adron\u00adments within which they live, are loved and cared for, or mal\u00adtrea\u00adted and abu\u00adsed, and, in the case of most food ani\u00admals, killed.<\/p>\n
The ques\u00adtion of \u201cShould we eat meat?,\u201d the\u00adre\u00adfore, appears very dif\u00adferent among dif\u00adferent sets of \u201cwe\u201d and the dif\u00adferent rela\u00adtions \u201cwe\u201d have with such animals.<\/p>\n
There are mil\u00adlions who might bridle at, or whose lives would be sim\u00adply uptur\u00adned and devas\u00adta\u00adted by, enfor\u00adceable com\u00admands that they sim\u00adply cease meat pro\u00adduc\u00adtion and consump\u00adtion. Tunisian camel her\u00adders in the semi-arid steppes of the Jerid who rely on her\u00adding for day-to-day sur\u00advi\u00adval, or Bedouins in the nor\u00adthern Gaza Strip, have not been consul\u00adted about how they feel about an order from the Global North\u2014in this case from Harvard and Johns Hopkins direct\u2014to stop eating meat or enga\u00adging in the meat trade. Nor, in the other direc\u00adtion, have these resear\u00adchers asked if such meat is sub\u00adstan\u00adti\u00adve\u00adly iden\u00adti\u00adcal to the confi\u00adned feed\u00adlots they right\u00adly condemn.<\/p>\n[\u2026]\n
A herd of examples stam\u00adpedes to the hori\u00adzon, but the point on that front is clear enough. Advocating inter\u00adve\u00adning in the Global South and bli\u00adthe\u00adly deman\u00adding adop\u00adting capi\u00adta\u00adlist tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy in the name of a socia\u00adlist Half-Earth, as does Vettese, who orders that it \u201cmust be from pas\u00adture that an eco-aus\u00adtere world will derive the land nee\u00added\u201d for tree plan\u00adting, is a form of \u201cnatu\u00adral geo-engi\u00adnee\u00adring,\u201d deve\u00adlo\u00adped accor\u00adding to spe\u00adci\u00adfic values, spe\u00adci\u00adfic deva\u00adlua\u00adtions, and patho\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcal exter\u00adna\u00adli\u00adza\u00adtions. These are not the no-brai\u00adners their advo\u00adcates pre\u00adsume. Compulsory vega\u00adnism and lab meat, endor\u00adsed by pro\u00adminent social demo\u00adcrat Green New Dealers, among them UPenn socio\u00adlo\u00adgy prof Daniel Aldana Cohen, consents to the brute confis\u00adca\u00adtion and era\u00adsure of pea\u00adsant and pas\u00adto\u00adral par\u00adti\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adrisms in the name of \u201cuni\u00adver\u00adsal\u201d ideals : rewil\u00adding Earth upon the bones of sup\u00adpo\u00adsed\u00adly ata\u00advis\u00adtic peoples poor and brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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