Anti-speciesists should take the slogan“until every cage is empty”more seriously. I mean that every cage with an animal inside should be opened–farms,fields, zoos, pets hops, labs,whatever. Not only if we have the means to put the captives in a sanctuary.
Nor if, having done our homework, deem them to fit in surrounding ecosystem and are therefore willing to release them into the wild.
It’s time to abandon the model of animal liberation activism as we currently know it. A model which only deems animals appropriate for liberation if they fit into some kind of human-defined
plan. This approach reproduces a commitment to human
control among anti-speciesists, cripples our ambition as
a movement and prevents our nonhuman comrades from
joining the clash against civilisation.
Nonhuman Comrades
First published in No Path Nr. 2, 2024