Dichiarazione di Guerra: Uccidere gli umani per salvare animali e ambiente

by Screaming Wolf

Titolo di forte impatto, per un contenuto altrettanto forte. Scritto qualche anno fa da un autore anonimo negli USA - Screaming Wolf - e distribuito in tutto il mondo in varie lingue, e' ora disponibile nella sua traduzione in italiano.

Gli umani hanno da millenni dichiarato guerra agli animali. Una guerra che negli ultimi decenni e' diventata più spietata e crudele, che non si accontenta di sterminare, ma che provoca ogni giorno la nascita di milioni di nuovi individui sui quali infierire per lucro, in allevamenti di ogni genere. A questa guerra, l'autore intende contrapporre l'idea di un'estrema, legittima difesa.

In questo saggio, i lettori favorevoli alla liberazione animale troveranno molte idee condivisibili e qualcos'altro su cui sicuramente si troveranno in disaccordo. Ma si trattera' certamente di un utile momento di riflessione su cosa possa significare "difendere gli animali".

I lettori che, invece, fanno parte delle immense schiere di aguzzini, o di indifferenti che, non ammazzando con le proprie mani, delegano questo sterminio per consumarne i frutti, troveranno molto di "offensivo", "spaventoso" ed "irritante", ma anche di sorprendente ed istruttivo.

Un libro estremo, scritto per far pensare, che non teme giudizi, che va fino in fondo nella sua analisi e che ha in se' molto di più di quanto il titolo - volutamente minaccioso - faccia presagire.

Genres: Book Club

116 pages, Paperback

First published January 18, 1991

Reviews

[Ryan McCarthy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think it’s awesome that there are people who are comfortable with advocating carbombing vivisectors.

Just kidding, that’s obviously horrible.

It’s kinda cool though.

Only joking, of course.

Still...

[Marcus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thirty years anniversary of this carefully written polemic on animal liberation. It claims to have been received by a couple on a floppy disc, from an author named Screaming Wolf, who says they speak on behalf of an ideological group calling themselves The Liberators. The climate is obviously very different now and ideas such as infiltrators working inside exploitation industries are unlikely to pass muster in the surveillance state of today.

It contends that “only” 12% of humans are concerned with ethics (surely too high?) and as such the remainder will require additional threats to fall into line. Vegans however tend to be a peaceful lot so to this day there have been no fatalities in the name of other animals. As such the author goes to lengths to attack pacifist Gandhian beliefs. Prolifers etc have no qualms over using violence to forward their human causes so is this reticence the speciesist cop out that the author argues it to be?

The book calls for a separation with the global economy (the usage of cars and roads and their harms are particularly highlighted) and yet it only references human numbers in the final paragraph. Surely an antinatalist position would be key given how our numbers multiply all the other ills? The 400,000 new humans added to the planet daily are most likely not to hear of veganism, let alone ever convert.

[Sorkunde · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent manifesto on Animal Liberation and why Direct Action is needed to free animals from bloodthirsty abusers.
This is of course something published in the hey days of the Animal Liberation Movement (and ALF) and only touched on the tip of the iceberg, but some arguments and tactics to monkey wrench the corrupt system are still valid today.

Pretty cool that a brave publisher took Screaming Wolf's thoughts and made a book out of it.

Violence is never the solution, not even when is the police jumping the gun.

[Robert Fitzsimmons · Rating 1 out of 5]

This reads more as satire then as it does honest, like if you asked a German to write on ecoterrorism but missed all the nuance of the subject. A fun title but a frustrating read, books like Always Looking Forward or The Earth Liberation Front 97 to 02 capture the essence better.