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It's good! Animals are the first exploited class. Their commodification was the first step in the construction of patriarchy and class society. The exploitation of pigs and cows in particular was perhaps the central tool in the colonization of what is now the United States, with huge numbers of these invasive animals unleashed to roam through and destroy carefully managed native ecologies, destroying the food webs that sustained native nations and making them dependent on European colonial food systems. That pattern repeated as colonists moved across the continent (the great plains were cleared to provide land for cattle ranching, leading to the genocide of the people and ecocide of the non-human life, two parts of the same process).

Today, the exploitation of animals has reached heights of cruelty and mechanization that would have been inconceivable for earlier generations. The animals themselves suffer unimaginably hellish conditions, lives of torture and imprisonment from birth to slaughter. The endless pursuit of more grazing and feed crop land is the biggest driver of habitat destruction on the planet, making animal agriculture the primary cause of plant and animal extinction around the world. The continued assaults on indigenous people in the Global South are for the expansion of this system. The labor conditions are horrific, with slaughterhouses and animal processing facilities driving the push to restore child labor in the US under dangerous and deadly conditions. Animal agriculture is second only to the burning of fossil fuels for its contribution to climate change. All pandemics are derived from animal agriculture and the disease ridden environments it depends on.

Animal agriculture is an apocalyptic crime of gargantuan scale that threatens the life and health of every organism on the planet.