Vegan Entanglements: Dismantling Racial and Carceral Capitalism

by Z. Zane McNeill (Editor)

Scholarly and personal essays on the intersections of the prison-industrial complex, industrial animal agriculture, and capitalism.
 
Vegan Dismantling Racial and Carceral Capitalism invites over 15 activists, scholars, and journalists to grapple with some of the most topical issues facing the animal protection movement, specifically its historical dependence on the prison- and immigration- industrial complexes and the carceral logics that inform and normalize the violence of incarceration and deportation. The contributors to this collection not only dissect and interrogate this relationship between the animal welfare movement and carcerality, surveillance, white supremacy, and capitalism, but offer concrete tactics for activists, non-profits, and other stakeholders to create a more equitable animal welfare movement based upon abolition and collective liberation.

Genres: Politics, Essays, Animals

234 pages, Paperback

Published February 21, 2022

Reviews

[Martin Rowe · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm the publisher of this book and thought I'd say a few words about it. As a vegan, and working for a publisher of books on veganism, I'm interested in different angles and honest approaches to the subject. This book offers several of them: particularly on the issue of whether, by punishing those (often marginalized) slaughterhouse workers who are convicted of egregious abuse, vegans and other animal advocates are, by default, supporting the systemic abuse of workers AND animals within the animal-industrial complex by "agreeing" with that complex that it's possible to treat workers and animals humanely in that complex. The result is a strange collusion in maintaining an illusion, and these essays set out to puncture that illusion and call for vegans and animal advocates to express more racial and class solidarity—and, thereby, argue the authors, become more effective animal advocates. Written in the midst of the COVID pandemic, which provides a case study on the interlinked oppressions of the animal-industrial complex, VEGAN ENTANGLEMENTS is an effective and valuable summary of "carceral veganism" and how to dismantle it.

[Nathan Poirier · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's even more intersectional than the title suggests. Many contributors really get in deep and talk about the intersection of multiple identities. A lot of personal reflection, too, which I would say comes off as lessons in personal growth and humbleness. Stellar!

[Claire Melanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent and enlightening read which offers thought provoking critiques of mainstream, carceral and single-issue veganism. Highly recommend for vegans and non-vegans alike. Until EVERY cage is empty ✊🏻

[Jessica Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

The expansive treatment of the concept of “cages” in this book is incredibly compelling and pushes the reader to think about the intertwined fate of humans and other animals in a world where solutions to so many problems come with proposals for more, not fewer, cages, borders, and bars. Across the book is a commitment to the liberation of all living beings.