“Instead of giving moralistic operating instructions from the judgment seat of ethics, that most bourgeois branch of philosophy, the present approach is conceived as a contribution to the formation of political solidarity. The ethical question "Can they suffer?" gives way here to this political question: where and how do animals put up resistance, and where and how have they done so? And subsequently, where have humans and animals been comrades-in-arms? These questions can produce a non-innocent solidarity that presupposes empathy instead of being limited to pity, which often bears the features of classism and chauvinism.”