“Meat-me”: From flesh machines to individualities. A case for an anti-speciesist degrowth (grassrootsjpe.org)
from veganpizza69@lemmy.world to vegan@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 2025 17:15
https://lemmy.world/post/37619919

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/37613672

Degrowth, a leading paradigm addressing our socio-ecological crisis, criticizes the highly destructive animal factory-farming industry. However, it does not challenge the commodification of sentient beings and the underlying system that perpetuates the oppression of the “less-than-human”. Animals-as-food, reduced to “flesh machines,” are exploited with institutional legitimacy rooted in societal belief systems. Drawing upon posthumanist and ecofeminist perspectives, this article argues that to achieve a just transformation, the degrowth proposal must gain ethical congruence and dismantle anthropocentric worldviews. Adopting an anti-speciesist framework becomes crucial to overcoming socio-ecological collapse, fundamentally reshaping our interactions with cohabiting individualities within the biosphere.

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