Ep 9: Animal Realism (and Eating Bugs)

We discuss animal realism, the phenomenon that many see a vegan world as “unrealistic” and so do not actually fight for it, but for other half-measures and even weird and dystopian “solutions” to the environmental and moral atrocities of meat production.

episode notes:

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

This Chinese cockroach farm houses a billion roaches, kept contained by a moat filled with hungry fish

videos: Cockroach Farm

Cockroaches a cash cow for Chinese farmer who breeds them for food and medicine

The Insect Farmer

cockroach scene from the dystopian movie Snowpeircer

For more from Vasile on colonialism and meat and dairy:

- White Power Milk: Dietary Racism and the Alt Right

- The Whopper Virgins: Hamburgers, Gender, and Xenophobia in Burger King’s Advertising

You can also listen to this talk on Animal Realism