| query | ||
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| TOTALCOUNT | WHAT_CONNECTION_DO_YOU_SEE_BETWEEN_ANARCHISM_AND_YOUR_DIET | |
| 1 | 1806 | [empty string] |
| 2 | 3 | Animal liberation |
| 3 | 2 | I eat what I want. |
| 4 | 2 | Liberation of Animals |
| 5 | 2 | I believe respecting the commons is one of the most valuable and necessary characteristics of communism/collectivism. Minimizing unnecessary consumption is the logical consequent. |
| 6 | 2 | I think you can't separate your diet and anarchism. |
| 7 | 2 | I don |
| 8 | 2 | Creating health, it easier to make consientious choices regarding local and moral economies, etc... |
| 9 | 2 | N/A |
| 10 | 2 | total liberation |
| 11 | 2 | I respect all beings and their need for life and freedom!!!! |
| 12 | 1 | making choices that we consider ethical on as many levels as possible, avoiding corporate food |
| 13 | 1 | A restrictive diet makes it very difficult to organize with community outside of the anarchist scene |
| 14 | 1 | Our current agriculture model is not possible in anarchist society. But currently i don't follow that. :( |
| 15 | 1 | all struggles are one. animal liberation. |
| 16 | 1 | small things count |
| 17 | 1 | liberation from various institutions which have sway economically in politics starts by buying food from places where your money doesnt go to a institution with a political bias. |
| 18 | 1 | Animal rights and human rights are connected. |
| 19 | 1 | i see it as a feminist stance on the constant exploitation of girls of any species. i also see it as a small piece of a struggle for animal/environmental liberation. |
| 20 | 1 | (French) Alimentation non OGM |
| 21 | 1 | I don't want to support consumerism/capitalist machiene, and i am against intensive agriculture for animal rights and environmental reasons. |
| 22 | 1 | Try to support local food systems |
| 23 | 1 | Don't eat meat because I oppose factory farms and animal domestication |
| 24 | 1 | better food should be easier to get. |
| 25 | 1 | There is the greatest freedom from suppression of my own body in it. |
| 26 | 1 | All forms of consumption are related to the oppression of workers |
| 27 | 1 | Rather general enviromentalism than anarchism |
| 28 | 1 | Animal liberation is an important part of the struggle. I don't eat them or contribute to their imprisonment. I also try not to buy things, scavenge, expropriate, when possible in order to contribute to the system less. |
| 29 | 1 | Exploitation exists in the food inustry, environmental concerns... |
| 30 | 1 | i get sick if i don't eat animal protein, how can i smash the state if i'm too tired to get out of bed? |
| 31 | 1 | by silently protesting the exploitation of animals and free trade by not giving these multi-nationals my money, which enables them to further destroy ecosystems and cultures around the world (whatever good that does!) |
| 32 | 1 | I boycott beef because of its environmental impact, an integral part of my world view. |
| 33 | 1 | Veganism also is about respecting the rights of others. |
| 34 | 1 | i don't believe in man's domination of man, and i don't believe in man's domination of other sentient life |
| 35 | 1 | Abstenence means nothing for change to me but living my life according to what I believe is anarchist |
| 36 | 1 | animal liberation is a part of people´s mind revolution |
| 37 | 1 | I am a human being. |
| 38 | 1 | No matter what you consume in this capitalist society a negative will come about because of it. I do however realize freeganism is living off of people waste. This is all well and good and reduces waste however if society was rewilded I would hunt. |
| 39 | 1 | Natural law, the sacred right of predation. |
| 40 | 1 | Encourages less waste while educating people on how to use fewer animal products themselves |
| 41 | 1 | I try to eat locally as much as possible and only buy pastured meat/dairy/eggs. tried vegetarian but i cant eat soy or most grains so it didn't work. |
| 42 | 1 | Anarchism is the life which I live, my diet is my life .. everything I do, I feel like a natural ... in short we evolve / develop ... we learn, educate, though we like it or not ... and try to balance development |
| 43 | 1 | The use of force is never justified |
| 44 | 1 | If I did not believe in complete freedom for humans, how could I believe in complete freedom for other animals? |
| 45 | 1 | interrelation of struggles |
| 46 | 1 | how we support the kapitall.system, cunsumerism lifestyle |
| 47 | 1 | Extend the same ethics to non-human animals: no hierarchy, solidarity etc |
| 48 | 1 | It counters the capitalist nature of consuming and wasting goods |
| 49 | 1 | It's gotta have an analysis of food production, animal rights and environmental effects of modern agricultural/horticultural techniques that's fucking up the planet and exploiting workers and peasants. |
| 50 | 1 | Animals have been oppressed by the capitalist system as well they live in horrid conditiond in factory farms, I wish healthy veganism was affordable in the US |
| 51 | 1 | Both require some thinking, rather than simply following the herd. |
| 52 | 1 | Factory farm practices based on overexploitation of nature. |
| 53 | 1 | food is largely a consumer good and thus usually implies engagement with capitalism; resisting traditional food distribution methods is to resist global trade, workers' exploitation, etc. -- but hard-and-fast rules about meat are not so important |
| 54 | 1 | I try to eat mostly free-range, organic, local; and know the farmers personally |
| 55 | 1 | I eat what I want |
| 56 | 1 | It must be much easier to dissociate from the violence & destruction inherent in how our food is obtained when you can't see where it comes from. |
| 57 | 1 | i choose my food sources very carefully |
| 58 | 1 | Among other things, it's like 14 times more environment friendly. It's less difficult to make revolution in an environment which is not destructed. |
| 59 | 1 | There is a link, but it is the same as every form of consumptiom. I am not opposed to eating animals, only the commodification of living beings. |
| 60 | 1 | I don't think we should practice violence |
| 61 | 1 | exploitation of life based on concepts of otherness which falsely legitimise crueltyis what it is, murder and enslavement. I am a very guilty meateater |
| 62 | 1 | people do not have freedom unless their food has freedom, including freedom from genetic pollution (Monsanto, et al), and if an animal is going to be eaten, it should live in the utmost comfort and not suffer any pain at the end of it's life |
| 63 | 1 | I try to avoid the products of corporate agriculture, especially the meat industry. I eat animal based foods vry rarely. |
| 64 | 1 | If you do, please kill yourself. Holy fuckin shit. If eat a human, am I then not an anarchist? How fucking idiotic are these questions going to get? |
| 65 | 1 | By relocalizing where I obtain my food I am getting better food and supporting a smaller system that is built on people and not corporattions |
| 66 | 1 | I have to mind where the food comes from and avoid buying what may support individuals or interests contrary to my aims. |
| 67 | 1 | Animal liberation is key to peaceful co-existence. |
| 68 | 1 | I do see some connection. It represents yet another part of human life that the working class has little or no control over. |
| 69 | 1 | I'm concerned about the social conditions from which my food comes from (i.e. labour standards) more so than the plight of animals, per se, though I acknowledge their suffering. |
| 70 | 1 | widely it is, but generally it isnt. |
| 71 | 1 | i should probably be a vegetarian, due to current environmental concerns and dangers |
| 72 | 1 | Most things are connected |
| 73 | 1 | Animal Struggle is as important as any other struggle |
| 74 | 1 | There should be free access to food. |
| 75 | 1 | Reduces the damage the industrial farming complex does to our earth. |
| 76 | 1 | local, gathered, community gardening, canning & preserving |
| 77 | 1 | I support different industries and production models through my purchases and try to consume the products of my own labor as possible. |
| 78 | 1 | ideally we'd be eating food from our own landbases and now oppressing other human and nonhuman people with it |
| 79 | 1 | animals have the same rights to life and freedom as men, because you think eating meat and animal products is immoral. |
| 80 | 1 | I eat meat because I believe we should focus on the struggle of people first. |
| 81 | 1 | mass production of meat is destroying the earth. i live in a region with sustainable ovo-lacto farming, so i eat it. |
| 82 | 1 | Nobody has the right to opress others, and that includes animals. |
| 83 | 1 | its better for the earth and animals |
| 84 | 1 | i see the connection between explotation and violence against animals and humans but for me human liberation comes first |
| 85 | 1 | How could you talk about freedom and peace when millions of animals are killed and enslaved? |
| 86 | 1 | You really need to ask this? |
| 87 | 1 | I really should eat more sustainably. |
| 88 | 1 | Well eating responsably is an extension of a responsable state. |
| 89 | 1 | supporting local farming practices; consuming less resources |
| 90 | 1 | land ownership and use, food security etc |
| 91 | 1 | Yes because animals and the earth deserve liberation as much as us but I don't think such a diet should be a "requirement" for anarchists nor should people be judged by their eating habits. Veganazis have gone too far! |
| 92 | 1 | meat production endangers the planet, and we could feed so much more people only with cereals, i don't encourage meat production by not buying it. only by changing our habits as a consumer can we influence the market. |
| 93 | 1 | I oppose anthropocentrism, and I see this as connected to anarchism for me personally. The way in which I eat SOME dairy is also connected to my desire for local economies and ecological survivability. |
| 94 | 1 | Being vegan for me is about not repressing and killing other beings, but more about living in a more sustainable environment friendly way without treating animals as machines and factories. |
| 95 | 1 | SUGAR SUGAR SUGAR SUGAR |
| 96 | 1 | Opting out of industries that are harmful to people and animals. |
| 97 | 1 | Meat is murder, dairy is rape |
| 98 | 1 | less contribution to centralized petroagriculture and the government it feeds/feeds on |
| 99 | 1 | The process of meat production wastes too much food. We are indulging in 1st world luxury while others cannot even eat the grain we feed to cattle. The treatment of agro-industry livestock is also deplorable. |
| 100 | 1 | Fundamentally, it is a rejection of a single hierarchy, that of humans over non-human animals. My diet is not revolutionary, but the least I can do to live a part of my politics. |
| 101 | 1 | because i thin that torturing of animals is one of problems which related with capitalism, and this system make money on the suffering of the others(weapons, wars animlas nature etc.) |
| 102 | 1 | I do not feel comfortable eating an aware being that I had no part in the killing of |
| 103 | 1 | I consider my American diet cruel and ecologically irresponsible, but I've never quite maintained a meatless diet (much less vegan)... |
| 104 | 1 | I value the well-being of animals as well as that of fellow humans. |
| 105 | 1 | I've grown my own vegetables and killed my own animals; a limited omnivorous lifestyle is the best use of land resources for the greatest number of people, as animals can take advantage of resources that humans cannot, |
| 106 | 1 | because of meat production |
| 107 | 1 | But I do recognise the politics / economics of the food / starvation industry as crucial. |
| 108 | 1 | making a choice for benefit of greater good |
| 109 | 1 | I'd long been an anarchist before a vegetarian, but was more exposed to vegetarianism than before due to anarchist publications. |
| 110 | 1 | Both are based on materialist views (which leads to utilitarianism) |
| 111 | 1 | i believe all things are equal and therefore anything goes |
| 112 | 1 | I think non-violence and empathy as principles will lend anarchists towards being vegans. |
| 113 | 1 | I support local grown economies and non-corporate advantaged businesses. |
| 114 | 1 | Its a personal choice, but compassion for other living things, and the human beings who must rear and slaughter them, as well as concern for global food security and climate change is connected to why I'm an Anarchist. |
| 115 | 1 | Environment, ethics.... |
| 116 | 1 | bio oraganic food is better and the real price of food |
| 117 | 1 | For me, anarchism is about liberty. Live and let live. Naturally, this shouldn't stop applying to less intelligent creatures simply because they taste good. |
| 118 | 1 | Because not alienating average people with my diet makes it easier to organize non-anarchists. |
| 119 | 1 | balanced diet, balanced life |
| 120 | 1 | personally, i think that my individual purchasing choices are not going to affect how many animals are killed or how they are treated, so i don't think it matters what i eat. plus, almost all food we eat is fucked up somewhow anyway, not just meat. |
| 121 | 1 | I believe in animal liberation, but I don't believe consumer choices will help that end. |
| 122 | 1 | i think, that anarchist shouldnt follow some diet just because its "non main stream" |
| 123 | 1 | I believe it's important to minimize my participation in systems of domination without getting self-righteous. |
| 124 | 1 | It's not right to support systems of terror placed upon animals. after all, we are animals too. |
| 125 | 1 | This affects the way you relate to many forms of life and power structures. But most simply, this is an ethical question to me more than a tactical one. |
| 126 | 1 | The exploitation of animals for human purposes is - in my opinion - on the same level as the exploitation of the working class for the wealthy's benefit. i.e. something that should be opposed/ changed. |
| 127 | 1 | anti-specisme |
| 128 | 1 | unhealthy people can't change the world |
| 129 | 1 | Food industry is destructive and I know I should stop eating meat altogether!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 130 | 1 | Supporting factory farming |
| 131 | 1 | These people suck. |
| 132 | 1 | Opposition to all forms of domination requires a willingness to refuse oppression animals. |
| 133 | 1 | The exploitation of non-human animals is the model par excellence of all that is wrong with our economic and political systems. |
| 134 | 1 | Obviously, your dietary choices can be considered reflective of your values. |
| 135 | 1 | anarchism introduced me to freeganism and ways to provide for myself in that way |
| 136 | 1 | I believe there is an intrinsic connection between how one eats, lives, and thinks. |
| 137 | 1 | I am a conscious eater. It reflects my relationship with my landbase and fellow non-human animals. |
| 138 | 1 | I'm not against eating meat, but am against the food systems that support "the American diet" |
| 139 | 1 | Diets can show to people that another way of relating to the non-human world is possible |
| 140 | 1 | It's a form of reject of the "normal type". |
| 141 | 1 | Freeganism is political to the extent that it highlights the inefficiency and waste of capitalism. People should not have to buy food at profit prices. Then again I recognise skipping is not going to start the revolution, but is still important. |
| 142 | 1 | self-management and the accountability for the consequences of our actions |
| 143 | 1 | I eat mostly junk food and I think this signifies that I'm willing to break social conventions and become my own master over my own body. |
| 144 | 1 | I try to eat with responsability |
| 145 | 1 | I don't view eating animals as inherently bad, however, food production under a capitalist economy is fucked up especially for animals. |
| 146 | 1 | it's relatively cheap and keeps me sorta healthy |
| 147 | 1 | I don't have control over my food source and therefore dont eat how i want to. |
| 148 | 1 | Animals are not objects, they are sentient beings. |
| 149 | 1 | minimize exploitation, minimize death. not all the way there. |
| 150 | 1 | Choosing to eat local and organic is good for the earth, my primary interest. |
| 151 | 1 | anarchy infuses how we relate to the world |
| 152 | 1 | Animal liberation is part of total liberation |
| 153 | 1 | it's a part of how i see the world, my perception, no need to abuse other living creatures. |
| 154 | 1 | B/c I see myself as part of a whole |
| 155 | 1 | salavging wasted food, livin off the excess |
| 156 | 1 | I try to eat what can be procured naturally, such as food farmed locally. |
| 157 | 1 | Good food=Good brain chemistry=Good decision making |
| 158 | 1 | Like I said in another portion, I feel like my diet is an extension of my belief system. |
| 159 | 1 | Mastery over animals is antithetical to a world without masters. |
| 160 | 1 | Trying to limit environmental effects and funding corporations |
| 161 | 1 | Packaged goods are a sign of the failure of (current day) science and ecomic theories. |
| 162 | 1 | I marked omnivore because I occasionally eat meat, but I have been reducing consumption because I see it as interrelated with everything from environmental destruction to corporate domination |
| 163 | 1 | Factory farming is bad for animals, people and the environment. It is also completely unnecessary. I am a vegetarian out of principal. I also realize I'm a hypocrite for eating eggs/dairy. |
| 164 | 1 | animal liberation is an important part of everyday struggle |
| 165 | 1 | basic reason is that i believe that every being has right to life |
| 166 | 1 | diets must be sustainable (just like everything else) in ways that are nonhierarchial and non-corosive |
| 167 | 1 | food makes smarter |
| 168 | 1 | no one is free while others are oppressed. |
| 169 | 1 | I'm moving to produce more of my own food so I won't support corps and govt as much, and for better health |
| 170 | 1 | Veganism applies the anarchist principles of non-domination and non-exploitation to animals. |
| 171 | 1 | The cost of meat consumption is borne by people other than the consumer through oppression; thus I am working towards a more sustainable and just diet |
| 172 | 1 | pussy is the root of the universe |
| 173 | 1 | Veganism is an expression of anti-authoritarianism and personal empowerment through dietary choices. It directly divests from (and actively promotes an alternative to) a particularly barbarous and destructive sector of our society. |
| 174 | 1 | It rejects conventional wisdom. Humans are not physiologically capable of eating processed foods, but they are pushed on us by corporations and popular culture. |
| 175 | 1 | speaks for itself really - raymond ackerman should have been listed as a war criminal by now |
| 176 | 1 | politics |
| 177 | 1 | animals exhibiting sentience should be protected on moral grounds |
| 178 | 1 | I don't consume in ways that continue the oppression of workers and animals. |
| 179 | 1 | I am forced to eat this crap and to not be able to extend compassion to animals because of my poverty |
| 180 | 1 | If yes... it would be superficial |
| 181 | 1 | I originally felt it was more of the anarchist thing to do to give up meat. Now I just abstain from meat for health reasons and because I don't really feel the craving for it. |
| 182 | 1 | Industrial meat puts too much of a strain on the environment and is not sustainable. |
| 183 | 1 | I'd like to work towards a more sustainable diet--pescetarian or more restrictive. |
| 184 | 1 | i object to the domination of animals as well as humans |
| 185 | 1 | yes, but im not against eating meat. |
| 186 | 1 | ecology, famine, liberation...so many reasons |
| 187 | 1 | No one should have to pay for food. Whatever your body needs you should be able to eat, within reason of what can actually be grown/raised in your bioregional location. |
| 188 | 1 | industrial farming and industrialised animal cruelty is part and parcel in the unsustainable capitalist paradigm |
| 189 | 1 | I do think, as humans, a more intimate relationship with our food is crucial to the survival of the planet. I think the way market society produces food will surely destroy the environment. |
| 190 | 1 | if you're anarchist you are against exploitation and opression therefore you can not possibly be not vegan |
| 191 | 1 | The current system of precuring meat is unsustainable |
| 192 | 1 | Kind of, it's still emotional though. It's just conscientiousness I guess, not wanting to fuck things up too much, treat animals like shit. |
| 193 | 1 | Well, I see a connection that others make, but I think my being vegan is independent of anarchism |
| 194 | 1 | I considered veganism part of total liberation, I don't know that I feel the same now, but factory farms are inexcusable. |
| 195 | 1 | it increases my cum volume |
| 196 | 1 | Dude, anarchism is about people. We eat what we want to eat. Dictating that is fascist. |
| 197 | 1 | I don't need to exert authority over other species to live. |
| 198 | 1 | u are what u eat!, do u eat things that have had genocide comminted on them? |
| 199 | 1 | As humans, we are omnivorous as a form of adaptation, our affinity for anarchy is also related to our nature. |
| 200 | 1 | I don't believe it's as substantial to our struggle as animal libs would have us agree to. |
| 201 | 1 | as an human who see's myself as an aminal, I give way to the feral cravings for the fat of my spiritual brothers |
| 202 | 1 | Food choices may support factory farming, etc. |
| 203 | 1 | I eat whatever might be available, just as my ancestors before me. |
| 204 | 1 | Recognition of the significance of life (even of animals) is an outgrowth of anarchism, and the deleteriuos effects mass-producing food and meat has on our society cannot neither be ignored nor dismissed. |
| 205 | 1 | total fuckin liberation |
| 206 | 1 | Eat the rich! |
| 207 | 1 | Freegan: Not harming others and not supporting capitalism. |
| 208 | 1 | the struggle should extend to all sentient beings. |
| 209 | 1 | It is important for me to be able to grow my own food should i have to survive in a post industrialist society where I can't rely on dumpsters or stores. and i don't know how to use a gun to kill an animal |
| 210 | 1 | at least, a little bit (for the little bit of meat that i consume) i am currently reliant on others. |
| 211 | 1 | I try and eat local and respect animals that I eat. |
| 212 | 1 | connection between grower and resources with community. |
| 213 | 1 | speciesism is generated from the same philosophical root as others. Also, the connection to corporate dominance, amount of food, and environmentalism |
| 214 | 1 | food is a basic necessity and should not have anything to do with money nor -to a lesser degree - forced labor. Food should also not be traveling cross country - causing spoilage while there are thousands of hungry people. |
| 215 | 1 | the hegemony of the state and capital is not so different from that of man over animal |
| 216 | 1 | capitalist food system sucks. eating meet in the context of mass production is poisonous to the earth and cruel to animals. it perpetuates capitalism. |
| 217 | 1 | Animals are counscieuss living beings - they have right to live as any human |
| 218 | 1 | Some basic ethic that I connect also with my own anarchism. |
| 219 | 1 | Eat drink and be merry, say I |
| 220 | 1 | Although I do believe strongly in animal rights, I see nutrition as being completely up to the individual and don't support most dietary restrictive habits. |
| 221 | 1 | distribution, exploitation, resources etc. |
| 222 | 1 | it's a choice - not simply accepted food from a store |
| 223 | 1 | Have to garden, I'm not going to pay Monsanto |
| 224 | 1 | I think my diet is shocking and evidence of my lack of commitment to the fings that I fink |
| 225 | 1 | I don't eat industrialised food |
| 226 | 1 | Turning to Vegetarainism lead me to understand that what is considered normal is not always right. |
| 227 | 1 | eating oppressed animals transfers the energy of oppression and lessons your ability to fight it mentally. it also numbs you to the suffering of fellow sentient species. |
| 228 | 1 | no violence towards all living creatures |
| 229 | 1 | I understand the connections and I'm glad that people adhere to those principles. I can't always do that, sadly. |
| 230 | 1 | animal liberation is part of the struggle |
| 231 | 1 | end of non-human slavery |
| 232 | 1 | veganism stands for beliefs not brought about by modern day propaganda. |
| 233 | 1 | withdrawing from exploitation |
| 234 | 1 | Not so much with eating meat, but more concerned with where it comes from, who's making it and how it's made |
| 235 | 1 | I try not to give any money to food stores, even coops. I will, but I would rather not pay into them. |
| 236 | 1 | the food system has huge potential to oppress or empower |
| 237 | 1 | The foods one eats implies the production means behind that food. |
| 238 | 1 | You can not abuse animals and call for a free soceity |
| 239 | 1 | I am free to eat whatever I like. |
| 240 | 1 | places where I buy food |
| 241 | 1 | pragmatic humanism |
| 242 | 1 | Food is production and production is politics. I try to eat local, environmental and non-oppressive |
| 243 | 1 | I think of where the food comes from and buy it in small quantities or from the dumpster. Also I visit friends and family in order to eat and socialise. |
| 244 | 1 | I lift, dumpster dive, and grow most of my food. I avoid the industrial food complex as much as possible. |
| 245 | 1 | I try to avoid meat, but eat it if my body craves it. My body tells me what it needs, I listen to it. |
| 246 | 1 | Less so today than I did initially. I think it is healthier for myself and perhaps it is contributing to less harm? |
| 247 | 1 | Food eating supports different industries. If one has the means to do it, she or he should support small producers, etc. |
| 248 | 1 | Exploiting animals for food is the same as exploiting working class for profitt |
| 249 | 1 | I would like to see Lab Meat become a reality so that all violence can be ended. However, until that becomes a feasible reality - people are going to hunt and eat meat, and government should not be involved. |
| 250 | 1 | rights for all, regardless of species |
| 251 | 1 | Fundamental to an equal society is the rejection of corporatism, and ith it big ag. the alternative is organic ag, which is dependant on animal fertilizer imputes. Omnivorism is neccesary for long term sustainable agriculture |
| 252 | 1 | It requires embracing the understanding that rejecting integral parts of civilization and survivability is a death sentence, not a moral quandry. |
| 253 | 1 | eating meat support the industrial, oppressive agribusiness system |
| 254 | 1 | It's less weird and alienating to most of the other people in my life |
| 255 | 1 | only in the sense that we need to critique factory farming as destructive to environment |
| 256 | 1 | Ethics. It's not just for politics. |
| 257 | 1 | I understand I want to live free, but expect other living organisms to be dominated and sacraficed for my well being |
| 258 | 1 | credo che il nutrirsi di ciò che sia commestibile sia una cosa naturale. Non vedo perchè nutrirsi di vegetali solo non sia una forma di believe that the feedin believe that the feeding of what is edible is a natural thing. |
| 259 | 1 | Production and consumption of food processes that that have costs that are not evenly borne so class privilege determines what kind of food is produced and who gets it, and under capitalism, those processes are conducted in genocidally racist ways. |
| 260 | 1 | same roots, "an unexamined life is not worth living" |
| 261 | 1 | (1) State subsidizes agri-business; (2) opposition to violence = opposition to violence against animals |
| 262 | 1 | Respect and the recognition of rights of all sentient beings. Also, the skepticism towards the institutionally taught "food chain" led to the discovery of the real metabolic nature of the homo-sapiens. Skepticism and self-education are essential. |
| 263 | 1 | The degree to which a human may hurt an another animal may effect cultural views of domination and violence. |
| 264 | 1 | Less impact on environment, more efficience use of resources (energy exchange), supporting the local |
| 265 | 1 | unnecessay violence is abhorent, the corporate food industry is a disaster... |
| 266 | 1 | prefer not to participate in large-scale capitalist exploitation of animals; OK with hunter-gatherer eating of meat and small-scale animal husbandry |
| 267 | 1 | Permaculture, Agroecology, Bioregional anarchism |
| 268 | 1 | I'm sick of diet fads. |
| 269 | 1 | Exploiting animals for food is the same as exploiting working class for profit. We should stop it. |
| 270 | 1 | I try to eat as ethically as possible (animal rights and envi. impact in mind), but it is not easy in my current housing situation. |
| 271 | 1 | It should be non-hierarchical. |
| 272 | 1 | My most important issue is animal liberation, and not eating animals is a part of that. |
| 273 | 1 | I think a quarter pound of beef patties being my least expensive option for lunch, points to a serious problem with capitalist production and distribution (as it is likely the least ecologically sound). I had been Ovo-Lacto for many years previously |
| 274 | 1 | id like to learn to eat heathier and more politically corrct but i dont know anyone who does |
| 275 | 1 | part of disingaging, living lightly, etc |
| 276 | 1 | i eat mostly what is free. i dont like to eat torturedf animal products. |
| 277 | 1 | my diet is a response to my politics. I am also anti-agriculture, however this is proving harder to be against without a permaculture garden |
| 278 | 1 | I eat what I have killed, I try to take responsibility. That's what anarchism is about for me. |
| 279 | 1 | Diet is linked to sustainability & ecology; reduced meat consumption to both & both to the creation of a new society - I wouldn't want to do more than suggest reduced meat consumption and an end to industrial farming though. |
| 280 | 1 | Any institution of coercion and oppression, to any form of life, sets the example of subjugation as an acceptable thing. I intend to eventually become vegan or raw vegan, |
| 281 | 1 | farting damages the enviroment |
| 282 | 1 | De-personalizing non-human animals leads to a view of personhod which is oppressively narrow. |
| 283 | 1 | I believe animals should be free to lead the life that is natural to them without having violence inflicted on them - isn't that part of anarchism? |
| 284 | 1 | Meat eating is natural and right for humans. Naturalism and anarchism go hand in hand. |
| 285 | 1 | treating others the way you want to be treated |
| 286 | 1 | Hierarchial power imposition and abuse extends to more than just humans |
| 287 | 1 | Both are based on my Utilitarian moral philosophy. |
| 288 | 1 | Environmentalism is an anarchist struggle, the most viable dietary option to be environmentally "friendly" is veganism. |
| 289 | 1 | I mind what I put in my body as I would my brain |
| 290 | 1 | By choice of my died I express compassion which is important for society to be joy to live in where one has the greatest freedom to hate or love |
| 291 | 1 | having autonomy over my body and consumerist choices, animal liberation, etc |
| 292 | 1 | Slowly become individually free from the corporate system and the capitalist cronies that oversee those corporations. |
| 293 | 1 | Christian anarchism is premised on nonviolence. The property status of animals is at its core dependent on violence and coercion to perpetrate and perpetuate its speciesist means. Species hierarchy is as real as racial and gender hierarchy. |
| 294 | 1 | I'm developing my own ideas of a moral diet I call non-predation. You don't have to kill an animal to eat meat. I value all Life as having infinite worth. |
| 295 | 1 | to take in your hand what you eat and understand in saying no ! |
| 296 | 1 | Exploitation of living beings |
| 297 | 1 | Freeganism has a deep political and social anaylsis, and is a dietary choice directly related to said anaylses. |
| 298 | 1 | Primarily, because it's 1) not a veggie/vegan diet, which tends to buck the trend, 2) is biologically sound, 3) encourages local and hormone/antibiotic free production of animals products and the re-evaluation of the % of our diet these should play |
| 299 | 1 | Politically, I should be vegetarian, but I love meat! I see it as a contradiction. |
| 300 | 1 | Build health within and BE the change you wish to see in the world. |
| 301 | 1 | I eat organic and as local as I can. This (in theory, I hope) promotes self-sustaining culture. |
| 302 | 1 | Animal liberation = human liberation. One struggle. |
| 303 | 1 | against the commodification of life. |
| 304 | 1 | veganism = animal liberation |
| 305 | 1 | naturalism/primitivism |
| 306 | 1 | I attempt to buy organically |
| 307 | 1 | Even if I omnivore, I carefully choose what I eat. I feel responsible for the way what I eat has been produced and where does it come from. |
| 308 | 1 | Both based on evolutionary logic. |
| 309 | 1 | My identification with anarchism leads me to oppose the domination of living things, be they humans or other feeling, conscious animals. |
| 310 | 1 | My goal is to be a vegan, all other forms are poison for society |
| 311 | 1 | i consider nonhuman animals another group of sentient beings exploited/oppressed by the current system. |
| 312 | 1 | Food production has important resource-use aspects, and will be a key to detaching from capitalism. |
| 313 | 1 | I don't think being vegan is revolutionary AT ALL; however factory farming is fucked up so I would never ever buy any animal products or get them in any way other than from a dumpster. |
| 314 | 1 | Number one it's a step against the corporate food machine, number two It's more respectfull towards nature |
| 315 | 1 | some of the values that compell by diet are the same that compell my political ideology, but i don't believe their connection at all necessary |
| 316 | 1 | anarchism is apart of our everyday lives, so it's got to be a part of my diet... i definately need to work in this area! |
| 317 | 1 | I should be free to eat whatever I wish provided it does not harm another human (canibalism). |
| 318 | 1 | Total liberty and equality for all. All means other species too :) |
| 319 | 1 | I switch between vegetarianism and veganism because I believe in animal liberation and anarchism has a lot to do with my beliefs in animal liberation. |
| 320 | 1 | respect and the golden rule in a shared and intertwined ecology and evolution require an appreciation of the closeness of other species to ourselves, which if you are empathetic must lead to at least some qualms about industrial meat production |
| 321 | 1 | Very loosely, in trying to eat as ethically as possible (within capitalism) and minimize ecological impact. |
| 322 | 1 | I think it's anarchist to be healthy. Unfortunately, i don't always follow through on eating healthy, though I feel conscious about what I eat. |
| 323 | 1 | It challenges the hierarchy between humans and animals and I believe that we need to abolish all hierarchies to really be free. |
| 324 | 1 | I think that vegetarianism, in all of its forms, is a good idea, with good intentions, often popularly misplaced for social credibility. |
| 325 | 1 | I am a vegetarian for environmental reasons + it's a nice way to live anarchism everyday + good conversation starter. |
| 326 | 1 | Sort of i only see a conection because i think animals are exploited under capitalism. I don't think eating meat is wrong. |
| 327 | 1 | Try and avoid taxed foods. |
| 328 | 1 | I choose to build mutually beneficial relationships with my food sources. This is a rejection of hierarchy in food production. |
| 329 | 1 | collective liberation - all struggles are interconnected |
| 330 | 1 | Government distortion of nutrition science |
| 331 | 1 | Because we are all animals together. |
| 332 | 1 | self-evident |
| 333 | 1 | Only I can choose what should go into my body and what shouldn't |
| 334 | 1 | I know the livestock industry is horrible and meat is unhealthy, but I just want to eat good food. |
| 335 | 1 | I believe that, ideally, one's diet should rely upon one's landbase, and would reflect the resources and capacity of a community. Right now, I take what I can get in order to be healthy (ready). |
| 336 | 1 | all industries are part of system, so I´m not part of worse ones |
| 337 | 1 | Because I have to pay money to buy it at the store for the most part right now. |
| 338 | 1 | The contempt of animals is mirrored in the contempt of other "weak" individuals. And except for the moral part of it, the global meat production today is unfair in every way. |
| 339 | 1 | Renouncing commercial meat products. |
| 340 | 1 | To the degree that animals are elevated to the same ethical status as humans. |
| 341 | 1 | My consumption habits fuel industries detrimental to populations and the planet. |
| 342 | 1 | anarchism for me is an open-ness to the respect of other kinds of being, an acknowledgement that we operate in a highly contingent (here, animal-disregarding) mode, and that our barbaric practices are constitutive of our impoverished subjectivity |
| 343 | 1 | i should be vegetarian or hunt my own meat. |
| 344 | 1 | respect for nature |
| 345 | 1 | I became vegan around the same time I became disillusioned with politics and started looking more towards direct action and activism to defeat capitalism, not the ballot box. |
| 346 | 1 | the body is the first site of resistance |
| 347 | 1 | My diet undermines the capitalist machine of torture to animals, but I never liked the taste of meat to begin with. |
| 348 | 1 | Food co-ops, collective kitchens, Food Not Bombs, organic and community gardening. Anarchist farms (someday maybe). Street fairs, community meals. |
| 349 | 1 | It makes me look cool. |
| 350 | 1 | We can feed more of the world and resources will be more abundant if we give up meat. |
| 351 | 1 | pacifism entails anarchism. |
| 352 | 1 | The way people eat is, I believe in the present context, a significant facet of the way authoritarianism manifests itself |
| 353 | 1 | Respect for living animals. Also, the meat industry is fucked up. |
| 354 | 1 | it isn't my right to decide what lives or dies |
| 355 | 1 | Being vegan has helped me grasp how all oppressions are interconnected. |
| 356 | 1 | Freeganism can be a way to disengage or distance oneself from the destructive waste of capitalist society |
| 357 | 1 | i hate consumer slavery |
| 358 | 1 | Proteins obtained via carnivorous diet reinforce the ability to hunt. |
| 359 | 1 | Mostly in terms of practicality. I think that people are going to have to get used to eating a lot less meat. |
| 360 | 1 | I have a hard time infringing on an animals right to consciousness. Someday I'll probably end up a vegan. |
| 361 | 1 | impact on people & earth |
| 362 | 1 | hypocritical |
| 363 | 1 | Responsible individuals are free to use whatever they need |
| 364 | 1 | In terms of consumerism |
| 365 | 1 | eat healthy, stay healthy, honor the wonderful ecological management role humans get to play and enjoy your food because its a sacrament!!! |
| 366 | 1 | well anarchism is about taking into concideration oppression in every aspect of life. foods a very important one. |
| 367 | 1 | and if no? |
| 368 | 1 | We should limit the consumption of meat in order to safe the environment and also to be healthier |
| 369 | 1 | All anarchists need to eat food at least occasionally. We anarchists as a result all produce shit that stinks. |
| 370 | 1 | Meat production is one of the biggest threat to poor people/environment in 3rd world Countries |
| 371 | 1 | AR was what started me off seeing world as it really is. Animal liberation is an essential part of the struggle, |
| 372 | 1 | I try not to support companies that are most guilty of oppression of animals. |
| 373 | 1 | industrual meet destruct animals life |
| 374 | 1 | My refusal is to eat factory farmed animals. The meat industry is an institution as harmful as any other, seeking only to maximize profits at the cost of all other things. |
| 375 | 1 | I think of others in choosing what I eat |
| 376 | 1 | part of total liberation in the context of some sort of technological present |
| 377 | 1 | being not part of big meat busines which explois planet and abuse animals (actually, I m going to be vegan soon) |
| 378 | 1 | I |
| 379 | 1 | compassion, linking how I live my life to my ideals. |
| 380 | 1 | I think there is... but it's not of importance |
| 381 | 1 | species domination |
| 382 | 1 | Abolishing speciesism is important, since in an anarchist society, everyone and everything is equal. |
| 383 | 1 | freegan is eating the good-waste of the system |
| 384 | 1 | I do what I like, while trying to be ethical and consider others and the environment. |
| 385 | 1 | Environmental/social justice can at times have something to do with our individual lifestyle choices. |
| 386 | 1 | Conscientious food consumption demands that current industrial food systems become more sustainable and humane. |
| 387 | 1 | I wouldn't eat an animal that seemed intellegent enough to merit concern. I try to be environmentally conscious, avoid unnecessay animal cruelty, and hope to move more of my diet into community-supplied items, |
| 388 | 1 | your diet can and will not influence the problems we are facing at the moment. Your diet is a lifestyle choice alone. |
| 389 | 1 | Diet/food is connected to environment and politics, so it is connected to anarchism. |
| 390 | 1 | Food and agriculture in general are the most important issues facing any group of people. An anarchist society would need a responsible, sustainable and equitable food system. |
| 391 | 1 | I eat (and enjoy) meat but I think we need to find safe and just alternatives to the way meat is produced in this country. Factory farming is a corrupt industry that exploits workers, damages the environment, and endangers public health. |
| 392 | 1 | It can affect capitalist production, industry must be reformed to respect life |
| 393 | 1 | I believe you vote with your money. |
| 394 | 1 | I only eat things I can produce myself or are produced by close companions in my region. I do not support corporate farming. |
| 395 | 1 | Somewhat, a new approach to many areas of life (was raised as a meat eater) |
| 396 | 1 | As things stand now, eating some things means paying those who exploit others to produce it. |
| 397 | 1 | Despite not living that way, I do think it is best to not support corporate/industrial agriculture. However, I have no moral objection to eating other animals for food. |
| 398 | 1 | animal liberation - human liberation! |
| 399 | 1 | I see that my diet stands in contradiction to my anarchist beliefs, and while I'm not willing to stop eating meat, I do wish to find ways to raise animals in a far more humane way than is the norm now. |
| 400 | 1 | fighting all forms of oppression and to save the earth and the beings on it |
| 401 | 1 | Mans domination over animal is hierarchical and must be challenged-as all power structures should be, and the answer to the challenge is that mans control over nature is illegitimate. |
| 402 | 1 | No one should suffer unnecessarily, neither human nor other animals |
| 403 | 1 | Individual abstention (or lack thereof) is not inherently revolutionary, but helpful. |
| 404 | 1 | i kill what i eat |
| 405 | 1 | Even as an omnivore, I see food as very political. It's a direct application of your values. |
| 406 | 1 | Oppression of sentient beings is still oppressive. Oppression is anti-anarchist. |
| 407 | 1 | I produce lots of food myself, and as part of a collective. |
| 408 | 1 | It's environmetnally friendly and humane towards animals. |
| 409 | 1 | Tangentially, not eating meat that contributes greatly to global warming and refusing any "ethical" stand which builds barriers between one set of experiences and another. |
| 410 | 1 | If I had the money to eat organic food or free range meat I would, but when your broke you'll eat whatever you can. |
| 411 | 1 | my anarchism stems primarily from the non-aggression principle and disdain for violence, which I apply (somewhat, but not fully or in the exact same way) to animals. |
| 412 | 1 | Anti-specisism ties into anarchism in the sense that all hierarchies are abolished. |
| 413 | 1 | Reducing our support of cruelty-based industries is important to the general liberation of humans and animals. Because of dietary restrictions, I'm not vegan, though I'd like to be. |
| 414 | 1 | I have strong feelings about the food industry as a whole (meat production, companies like monsanto that create gmo's and sue farmers for copyright infringement) but I do not believe my personal food habits are going to change any of those practices |
| 415 | 1 | I feel that vegetarianism is an important component in the struggle for animal and earth liberation. |
| 416 | 1 | environmental connection |
| 417 | 1 | A person who allows government to initiate violence on his behalf is the same as a person who asks others to torture animals on his behalf; in each situation the distance permits complacency and the illusion of innocence |
| 418 | 1 | Animal Liberation and Human Liberation are intertwined |
| 419 | 1 | I'm not complete vegetarian but I think anarchy can start by taking control of food. Getting healthy without government interference.! |
| 420 | 1 | humanity does not have dominion over earth and it's inhabitants |
| 421 | 1 | I try to at least be conscious about what I eat |
| 422 | 1 | My point of view on Veganism is essentially Total Liberation Anarchism extended to the animal kingdom. |
| 423 | 1 | If we don't eat animals, they'll overthrow us: animal farm. |
| 424 | 1 | I eat local and organic to support methods of production I support. |
| 425 | 1 | Any self-imposed restrictions increase some discipline in thinking, cause you have to explain yourself to other people. Besides people try to be coherent, so one fundamental change is quickly followed be others |
| 426 | 1 | Liberation of animals intersects with outher struggles but diet isnt an effective means of bringing about change. |
| 427 | 1 | what we consume impacts and validates the economic conditions that brought the food to your mouth. |
| 428 | 1 | It's a form of rebellion I guess. |
| 429 | 1 | Domination of animals is not acceptable |
| 430 | 1 | trying to do minimum harm, attain maximum efficiency |
| 431 | 1 | i only eat meat if the animal is humanely raised, and similarly scrutinise the sources for the rest of my diet |
| 432 | 1 | I try to support local farmers |
| 433 | 1 | My diet is a part of liberating myself from dependencies on industrial civilization and having a healthy fulfilling life. |
| 434 | 1 | Food is a very important part of our living, we need to fight exploitation in that matter too |
| 435 | 1 | Compassion establishing why we should care about equality in the first place. |
| 436 | 1 | We need to move away from dominating other sentient beings, and animal farming is environmentally destructive. |
| 437 | 1 | Domination of animals |
| 438 | 1 | while veganism is not the end-all oppression stopper, it is the most non destructive diet in this destructive culture. |
| 439 | 1 | less consumption |
| 440 | 1 | End of animal's exploitation, end of mass consumerism, less thrid world exploitation, more respect, redefinement of the relationship between humanity and her environment included other populations |
| 441 | 1 | food, agriculture, means of production, obese masses |
| 442 | 1 | food politics is annoying but obiously intricately related with class and race struggles, as well as animal and earth liberation. |
| 443 | 1 | More so I see a connection between my diet and my attempts to conserve resources instead of wasting them on animals that are extremely inefficient . |
| 444 | 1 | I should be a vegitarian but i'm not. |
| 445 | 1 | The liberation of all species is necessary if we are trully to overcome heirarchy in our societies |
| 446 | 1 | Contributing to suffering is NOT an anarchist ideal. |
| 447 | 1 | I should be more vegetarian |
| 448 | 1 | ideally my diet should be increasingly localy grown/wild |
| 449 | 1 | I believe that we should aim for sustainability. I do not agree with my comrades however who say veganism is the only sustainable diet if it's sustainable at all. |
| 450 | 1 | I am not obese. I eat to live not for luxury. |
| 451 | 1 | local food as possible |
| 452 | 1 | You can't fight for the emancipation of one species and allow the enslavement and genocide of another. |
| 453 | 1 | I should be a vegetarian; factory farms support capital and exploitation. |
| 454 | 1 | Animal liberation, harm as little as possible |
| 455 | 1 | veganism is a bieffect of anarchism in todays society |
| 456 | 1 | Speciesism is another oppressive institution that we should consider and address as anarchists. |
| 457 | 1 | money spent goes to corporations. opression of living beings. |
| 458 | 1 | The anarchists should try to be vegans and advocate veganism, |
| 459 | 1 | The official government lessons on nutrition are as destructive as the rest of its existence. That's why I consider the paleolithic diet of Gary Taubes, Drs Eades and Harris. |
| 460 | 1 | Not in the way you ask the question. Vegetarians who eat produce flown in from abroad does more harm than my eating meat from a local farm, that I support. |
| 461 | 1 | the absence of oppression and captivity |
| 462 | 1 | Veganism is vital for a sustainable and humane society |
| 463 | 1 | The support of industrial agriculture and other food corporations and such. Not so much what beings I consume but how what I consume is produced. |
| 464 | 1 | I don't neccessarilly see it idealogically connected as a diet choice, but I do believe that cruelty of factory farms are one of the many examples of the injustices inherent in this economic structure. Workers have also lost limb in these factoryfarm |
| 465 | 1 | Eating children alive rarely consistent with anarchist principles. |
| 466 | 1 | Celebration of the individual and degeneration of the bullshit capitalist system. |
| 467 | 1 | There is a connection between MY anarchism and MY diet. I don't extend that view to other people who should be free to make whatever choices they want |
| 468 | 1 | Basic respect for life. |
| 469 | 1 | We shouldn't enslave mammals for food (though I hypocritically sometimes eat them anyway...) |
| 470 | 1 | It's less exploitative of the planet and animals |
| 471 | 1 | Food is political - certainly, I don't think that any particular diet is necessarily more/less anarchist, but if you're trying to live as an anarchist, it's certainly going to effect how you eat. |
| 472 | 1 | I can see how a concern for the well-being of animals is consistent with certain aspects of anarchist thinking. |
| 473 | 1 | it is the duty of every proletariat to keep her body free of impurities - her body is merely a vessel of the proletarian state |
| 474 | 1 | Hunting is the source of all oppressions which follow. The unifying symbol of all other oppression (the white man, the patriarch, the boss) is the predator/hunter/dog-leader. |
| 475 | 1 | Animal oppression is another form of control. |
| 476 | 1 | No species deserves imprisonment. |
| 477 | 1 | By not condoning the abuse of animals as a product for human consumption/the meat industry |
| 478 | 1 | eating locally helps strengthen community bonds, decreases dependence on currency and corporations, and is better for the environment (as well as possibly healthier due to fresh and minimally processed food) |
| 479 | 1 | we eat a lot |
| 480 | 1 | Animals are oppressed within the meat industry. As an anarchist I am against oppression of all beings human and non-human animals |
| 481 | 1 | Respect for life, fighting opression |
| 482 | 1 | non-agression protocol extends to all intelligent beings |
| 483 | 1 | food structures and animal treatement are a huge part of other governmental structures which I oppose. |
| 484 | 1 | politics of liberation mean nothing l |
| 485 | 1 | Not very 'ethical eater' but state collapse figures into how I think about food |
| 486 | 1 | Environmentalism |
| 487 | 1 | The way we treat and keep animals in this society is cruel and inhumane and that it perpetuates hierarchy. |
| 488 | 1 | Industial animal farms are totally a hierarchy. I see that. I'm human before I'm an anarcho-bot though. We can't all be perfect. |
| 489 | 1 | Post revolution, more people will become vegan because its less work to produce food for a vegan diet. |
| 490 | 1 | Breaking down of structures |
| 491 | 1 | Because the animal slavery is to consider because animals are conscious beings so in quality of anarchists we must consider this. |
| 492 | 1 | One mus eat ethically, however it is really annoying when one has no other real politics other than veganism and use their single issue as a way to bolster their own ego. |
| 493 | 1 | care of different beings by do not eat animals |
| 494 | 1 | You are what you eat, n'est pas? ;) |
| 495 | 1 | Sustainability, health as well as an opportunity to spread one aspect of anarchism with others |
| 496 | 1 | Animals are not lesser beings than humans |
| 497 | 1 | We need to gradually end opressive diets that feed off cheap labour and the environment |
| 498 | 1 | My political views are based on the higher level of education and understanding that I have acquired, so is my diet. |
| 499 | 1 | My beliefs of freedom apply to all creatures |
| 500 | 1 | fuck no. i hate hippis |
| 501 | 1 | In as much as I feel animals live for their own purposes and not ours -- I can't really condone or support eating animals or exploiting them for intense dairy production. But my individual choice changes nothing but my health which is my real reason. |
| 502 | 1 | its merely a reflection of ethical choices. it sure as hell isnt for my health |
| 503 | 1 | Exploitation doesn't just apply to humans. Same goes for cruelty, torture, etc. |
| 504 | 1 | animal liberation must occur philosophically in human society due to cognitive dissonance otherwise |
| 505 | 1 | Interconnection of struggles (eg.vegan) |
| 506 | 1 | Meat and chicken industries are insane. I can't eat it and loo myself in the eye afterwards. |
| 507 | 1 | The personal is political |
| 508 | 1 | I am free to eat what I want as long as it harms no other, but I can't live (especially withinn a capitalist society) without harming others; this is political, |
| 509 | 1 | I see animal consumption as involuntary on their part, and it's immoral to cause suffering we don't need to. Respect all lives. |
| 510 | 1 | I take the time to carefully decide and prepare what I eat. thats my business alone, and it represents to me a freedom found in anarchy. |
| 511 | 1 | The destruction of small farms, creation of factory farms and cheap low-quality food |
| 512 | 1 | EQUALITY AND COMPASSION SHOULD BE EXTENDED TO ALL ANIMALS. |
| 513 | 1 | the struggle for animal liberation is parallel to that of human liberation |
| 514 | 1 | If we would all eat locally grown plants with little to no chemicals used and eat animals that live locally and freely that eat a good diet, we would all be healthier, happier and independent of the market systems we have in the third world. |
| 515 | 1 | Rhizome. |
| 516 | 1 | Sustainability, both environmental and economic |
| 517 | 1 | I try to eat as I would in a stateless society — not that plugged into Big Ag, etc. |
| 518 | 1 | Just as humans ought to enjoy dignity, so should non-human animals. My response is veganism. Other great responses include permaculture, horticulture, and hunting and gathering, but these are sometimes less accessible to people. |
| 519 | 1 | i should be a vegan, because i am a hypocrite if i am using animals as a means to my own end. |
| 520 | 1 | the industries that i'm supporting by what i eat |
| 521 | 1 | Informed by the same moral basis |
| 522 | 1 | Conservation needs to be shaped to meet human needs - but the human population must be controlled. |
| 523 | 1 | I feel guilty for eating meat! |
| 524 | 1 | I make sure to only support ethical businesses. |
| 525 | 1 | I don't eat veal (or, as South Park called it, slaughtered baby calf). I also boycott Coca-Cola because of the union murder thing at the bottling plant. |
| 526 | 1 | no structural oppression of individuals |
| 527 | 1 | I don't feel right participating in the captivity and exploitation of other living creatures. |
| 528 | 1 | I avoid contributing to the exploitation of animals and try to avoid participating in the capitalist market as much as possible. |
| 529 | 1 | I believe in the principles of animal liberation, I simply have trouble being consistent with my diet and beliefs |
| 530 | 1 | less assaultive of the earth |
| 531 | 1 | We don't need to exploit animals, anarchists should stop to be product of present culture. Anarchism is after factory also, it is not only about factories. |
| 532 | 1 | going against normal practices / consumption |
| 533 | 1 | Belief in liberty, dignity and respect for life extends to animals, not just humans. |
| 534 | 1 | A society with this diet is unsustainable |
| 535 | 1 | no one can coerce me into not eating whatever the hell i want |
| 536 | 1 | Anything goes just as long as it is |
| 537 | 1 | factory farming is immoral, and no animal should have to be subjected to the torture and confinement of a factory before they are killed for their meat. if they are to be used for their meat, they should at least have a life free from mistreatment |
| 538 | 1 | Its personal, for me it makes sense to have see eating animals as unethical. i don't think its necessary to be an anarchist. |
| 539 | 1 | Both reflect respect for the rights of other sentient beings |
| 540 | 1 | I think buying local and free range...if one is going to purchase meat as an anarchist is a must |
| 541 | 1 | local food, good lives for animals before they are killed and eaten |
| 542 | 1 | to subjugate and commodifiy animals simply because of acquired taste and dietary preference is to repeat what we claim to be against in the first place. claiming anarchism as an ethos while exerting power over living things is hypocritical. |
| 543 | 1 | eating local chicken is more ecologically sound than mono-cultured soybeans. if my neighborhood can farm tilapia in a garage, providing us with protein, why shouldn't we? Because the fish have fucking right? Lol. |
| 544 | 1 | Avoid supporting capitalist factory-farming. Kinda feel I should be vegan but hard to make the transition |
| 545 | 1 | I try to eat as much homegrown or locally grown food as possible...try to avoid corporate crap. |
| 546 | 1 | Diet is fundamentally connected to environmental issues which are fundamentally connected to power issues. I only eat locally produced oganis meat, about twice a month. But honestly agree that I should be vegan. |
| 547 | 1 | Being aware of abundance vs scarcity, and conscious of where food comes from and how it's produced. |
| 548 | 1 | I don't believe in killing other living beings to eat when humans don't have to, and have no right to. |
| 549 | 1 | I'm disturbed by my inability (so far) to kick the meat habit. |
| 550 | 1 | how to talk about liberation of all life when you are eating meat? + global warming |
| 551 | 1 | One species should not control another. I'd rather be vegan than vegetarian actually. |
| 552 | 1 | Localizing food production is a means for achieving independence from the corporate state |
| 553 | 1 | supporting local community farmers and building self-reliant, autonomous networks of production |
| 554 | 1 | rationality |
| 555 | 1 | one's diet can positively or negatively effect the capitalist structure |
| 556 | 1 | Ideological vegetarianism has a lot to do with anarchism, also issues of caste and religious, exclusionary purity taboos; these are related to anarchism and why I'm not an anarchist, but that's a different topic |
| 557 | 1 | It is a freely chosen lifestyle. I'm down with people trying out any of the other options mentioned (and quite a few that aren't) if it's meaningful to them. |
| 558 | 1 | starving people, overpopulation, and destruction of ecosystem |
| 559 | 1 | how animals are treated reflects how humans in our culture are treated. |
| 560 | 1 | I believe we should eat how our anscestors ate for health reasons, or eat whats around us locally, again focussing on health. Healthy people arent a drain on society - any society. |
| 561 | 1 | Diet is a subset of lifestyle. Lifestyle changes will not end structural abuse. Some lifestyles cause abuse to biosphere, nonhumans, social/economic classes. Inconsistent not to minimise contribution to abuse where possible. Rejection of privilege. |
| 562 | 1 | I am opposed to the systemic oppression of anyone, regardless of species. This doesn't mean I think veganism will solve the worlds problems, or that everyone should be vegan. |
| 563 | 1 | It is a part of my attempt to help making this world a better place to live. |
| 564 | 1 | I try to avoid eating food produced in exploitative ways (to animals and humans), as well as ways that are environmentally destructive. |
| 565 | 1 | if a diet is forced upon me by external influences who force their position on me, it is tyranny. |
| 566 | 1 | Meat contributes to evironmental problems and health issues |
| 567 | 1 | To live in harmony with nature we humans imo need to take off more pressure of the worlds recourses |
| 568 | 1 | anarchy is a life without structure or authority, therefore my diet follows neither of these |
| 569 | 1 | try to eat local unprocessed food, avoid imported. Used to be vegan - gave it up for environmental/political reasons. |
| 570 | 1 | (Red meat usually costs more more and is not good for the health, so I get more money and energy for organizing.) |
| 571 | 1 | It's a simple way of hoping to work towards a less-violent world. Not that it does a lot; but its about starting us thinking. |
| 572 | 1 | It's vague but just as i co-operate with human animals to build anarchism i co-operate with non-human animals by not killing them |
| 573 | 1 | Ethics |
| 574 | 1 | Well... I see a connection, I just don't live it. |
| 575 | 1 | i guess vegan is really good, because you do not rip animals off. but I'm not good at straight and 100% things :o) I enjoy being negligent |
| 576 | 1 | Opression and animals, environmental responsibility. |
| 577 | 1 | Eating meat and other animal products is bad for the environment and represents another form of oppression. |
| 578 | 1 | Taking individual responsibility instead of listening to FDA crap |
| 579 | 1 | I think diet is connected to politics--and I think all consumption causes suffering whether it's vegan or not. As such, I'm not vegan or veg anymore. |
| 580 | 1 | i'm a bleeding heart hippie. it's fills me with disgusting empathy to see meat, because i see my own meat. this feeling has engendered anarcho-philosophy around it. |
| 581 | 1 | I think it is important to remember that we are humans, and it is depriving ourselfs to restrict our diets, but to also be responcible and balance our diets |
| 582 | 1 | I'm soon to be switching from pescatarian to vegetarian, the reason being the same reason that I dont eat poultry or red meat--these animals deserve freedom, just like us people deserve freedom, and that is what anarchists are--figting for freedom. |
| 583 | 1 | it's hard to justify the most abhorrent practices of the meat industries |
| 584 | 1 | Animal farming is exploitative and a form of slavery. Anarchism should reject all slavery and exploitation. |
| 585 | 1 | All struggles are connected, we need to live more in concert with the earth |
| 586 | 1 | not participating in the blatant abuse of animals; as would be the same for humans---we are animals too afterall |
| 587 | 1 | Exploitation is exploitation, regardless of what animal it is. |
| 588 | 1 | the dissolution of hierarchy and work to do away with oppression |
| 589 | 1 | the oppression of animals is the same oppression we experince. |
| 590 | 1 | everything you do has a connection with anarchism. |
| 591 | 1 | member of a local CSA farm, avoid industrialized foods |
| 592 | 1 | animal liberation is part of the ultimate goal |
| 593 | 1 | all my food comes from the trash |
| 594 | 1 | the oil and concentration of monetized wealth required to deliver calories (animal vs plant) to my mouth. |
| 595 | 1 | Nobody could be kill an animal, because we're anti authoritarist not only with humans |
| 596 | 1 | I should question a bit more my diet, kind of difficult for me, not really a priority. |
| 597 | 1 | It is hard for me to say. I think veganism is an important extension of the morals that I have as an anarchist; however, I do not expect every anarchist to be a vegan, nor do I agitate for such a thing. |
| 598 | 1 | The meat industry is even more exploitative/capitalist than the rest of the food industry (and harder to escape from that aspect of it) |
| 599 | 1 | My eating habits don't quite yet conflate with my political beliefs....:-) |
| 600 | 1 | Raising my own food is part of necessary disengagement from globalist capitalism and consumerism. |
| 601 | 1 | My diet is probably disappointing to most anarchists. |
| 602 | 1 | No domination |
| 603 | 1 | all forms of oppression (including our own through eating food produced through industrial violence) |
| 604 | 1 | Battery farming is something that will have to be abolished. I avoid chicken where possible. |
| 605 | 1 | ...I don't wanna eat what "they" say I should eat...its the only power I have. |
| 606 | 1 | i eat only local meat/dairy and mostly local fruits/grain veggies |
| 607 | 1 | consumption is always apart of my anarchist beliefs |
| 608 | 1 | Freeganism, growing food, and shoplifting are ways for me to stick it to capitalism by not buying their products. As for when I do buy, animal liberation is a huge personal and political issue for me, so I only buy vegan. |
| 609 | 1 | self-sufficiency is key |
| 610 | 1 | Ideally, I'd only eat food that didn't bring about the pain of other creatures, I will work for this future. |
| 611 | 1 | I was veggetarian for 20 years anarchist empowered/taught me how to be vegan |
| 612 | 1 | the consumption of animals is corrupt and unhealthy for all beings involved |
| 613 | 1 | well in that virtually all groceries bought in the average grocery store are produced by major corporations, such as Coca Cola, Nestle, Kraft, and so many more. |
| 614 | 1 | the more important mater for me is the distribution of the land over the world and the mass production of meat and the over used of the lands that belongs to the people who live there and should use those lands to grow food they can eat. |
| 615 | 1 | I probably should be vegan, but I am not about to give up my pastrami, roast beef, etc |
| 616 | 1 | Where I live, being vegan or vegetarian is most ecologically sustainable. I also feel that if you can't kill it, don't eat it, and I know that I couldn't hunt or fish unless I was desperate for food. |
| 617 | 1 | no animal killings |
| 618 | 1 | It's all linked the way we act on a day to day basis and what we wanna change in this world |
| 619 | 1 | Assholes import oranges from Chile. Cool people steal apples from the local orchard. |
| 620 | 1 | I try to eat in line with sustainable food production, including organic, local, fair trade, less processed, generally less... |
| 621 | 1 | I'm an anarchist, who wants liberty for every creature, so I don't eat animals. |
| 622 | 1 | Total liberation. We are all animals. |
| 623 | 1 | The Animales I eat are not are in their own form of bondage. I also eat things I shouldn't =/ |
| 624 | 1 | Less industrials products at possible, local productors, etc... |
| 625 | 1 | To eat, wear or use an animal in any form when one has the choice to do it to a nonsentient being contradicts libertarian ethics. Speciesism is no different from other forms of opression anarchists fight. There's no reason to exclude other animals. |
| 626 | 1 | animal rights/proper farming |
| 627 | 1 | As an anarchist my critique of domination extends to non-human species, and as such, I refuse to consume them. |
| 628 | 1 | sourcing food well and avoiding wastage, excess and consumption driven approach to food |
| 629 | 1 | respect for and equality to fellow living creatures, one of the core tenets of anarchist communism |
| 630 | 1 | Offering financial support to perfered methods of farming etc- ie. organic, grown by friends etc |
| 631 | 1 | strive towards locavore diet that supports local small scale economy |
| 632 | 1 | Being responsible for the sustainability of my diet is an easy and simple step to reduce my impact on the world |
| 633 | 1 | Not participating in the meat industrial complex |
| 634 | 1 | animals are equally affected by institutional totalitarianism |
| 635 | 1 | Animals suffer greatly because of capitalism |
| 636 | 1 | Authoritarian social relations between people are connected to the markets' demand for food production. |
| 637 | 1 | Organic and locally grown foods. |
| 638 | 1 | liberation ideology |
| 639 | 1 | Imposing a purpose upon other living creatures as food for the ones who can talk is paramount to slavery. |
| 640 | 1 | violence based on species is no more justifiable than violence based on any other oppressed status in our society. |
| 641 | 1 | If we want to abolish institutionalized domination, we need to acknowledge that other living beings deserve the same consideration as humans. |
| 642 | 1 | we shouldn't be dominating any species human or not |
| 643 | 1 | it's not about animal ethics, more about resource allocation. but the connection is pretty weak. |
| 644 | 1 | I try not to practice violence, opppression, tyranny in my daily life and I feel like my non eating of anmals reflects that effort (even if it is not perfect). I also see it as a sort of noncooperation with an incredibly oppressive food system. |
| 645 | 1 | i struggle with my diet, i wish i had enough self discipline to be vegan. anarchism stands for the liberation and non-oppression or exploitation of any living thing, including animals, which is what the meat industry is doing |
| 646 | 1 | ecological |
| 647 | 1 | I am an anarchist because I am vegan, I am vegan because I am vegan. I oppose domination. |
| 648 | 1 | an ominvore diet is not sustainable, that statement may not be exactly anarchist, but it is true for any society |
| 649 | 1 | Animal liberation, factory farming, etc are all connected. |
| 650 | 1 | Eating animals/products opresses (and kills!) animals |
| 651 | 1 | I feel crap knowing the impact my eating has on everything. |
| 652 | 1 | Meat-based diets are unsustainable at this time; also it is not necessary to eat meat, so why do it? |
| 653 | 1 | it somehow reflects sbs personality |
| 654 | 1 | Eating animals is a violation of peace and freedom of beings which feel pain and have an interest to avoid it, but I eat meat anyway because I'm weak. |
| 655 | 1 | food security, distribution, marketing are all degraded by capitalist a**holes |
| 656 | 1 | the ideals of no authority extend to animals - I don't consider this an important part of my politics - but it is a part anyway. |
| 657 | 1 | politics, animal freedom |
| 658 | 1 | I limit intake of meat and abstain from endangered supplies and aim for eco-friendly foods locally and organically grown. |
| 659 | 1 | You can't ignore animal rights, if you're interrested in human rights. |
| 660 | 1 | I really ought to be vegan / Freegan, again. I was for a year or so. |
| 661 | 1 | Animal consciousness exists. Only morons deny this. |
| 662 | 1 | I try to limit usage of the products whose manufacture was based on violent gathering |
| 663 | 1 | Non exploitative way of eating, but also limiting my dependence on production of manufactured food |
| 664 | 1 | taking the violence out of what we eat. hierarchy in our power over animals, also. |
| 665 | 1 | Not buying from the machine, McDonalds and the like |
| 666 | 1 | they control our every move |
| 667 | 1 | Diet should consist of items easily produced, local, |
| 668 | 1 | I said no |
| 669 | 1 | the way we exploite the animal and the ressources on earth |
| 670 | 1 | I'm not a vegetarian, but I can see how that choice can, for them, be linked to anarchism. |
| 671 | 1 | i carefully choose everything i buy |
| 672 | 1 | Liberation and consideration don't stop on the human level. It's the same as everything we know to be wrong. It will just take time, as they all have, to see it. |
| 673 | 1 | I attempt to participate as locally as possible, in the food market. |
| 674 | 1 | Again, it's kind of complicated. |
| 675 | 1 | I'm vegan in an attempt to stop the exploitation of the environment. It's a small step. |
| 676 | 1 | factory farms destroy the planet |
| 677 | 1 | I'm totally free as an anarchist, so I choose what i eat based on my fancy. |