Sabotage the Animal Industry

Jobs in animal factory farms are some of the worst in the world. Working conditions are horrible and inhumane. The work space is surrounded with blood, excrement, and the screams of dying animals. Violence is an every day experience that is suppressed by employees that suffer from poor health and deep psychological trauma.

Industry leaders and politicians resist a collective transition to better diets. They are more invested in protecting the current businesses that control our food supply. Their regressive agenda is based on the same logic that works to secure jobs in the oil industry, while stalling progress on the renewable energy sector. Instead of holding on to obsolete projects, we could educate animal farmers to grow fruits and vegetables, and offer them well paid positions building solar panels.

By sabotaging the animal products industry we are indirectly freeing people from horrible jobs, and supporting healthier industries capable of creating more fulfilling and sustainable jobs for everyone.

Sabotage of the animal industry can be done peacefully by every person in the world. There is no need to make signs, or march in front of slaughterhouses. What we need is for everyone to reduce their consumption of animal products, substituting them with fruits and vegetables.

We don’t even need everyone to stop eating animal products completely, at least not yet. What we need is enough people making a change to tip the scale in our favor.

Think about all the movements that have applied this tactic successfully. Sabotage has been used against unethical businesses, and whole industries, to create better conditions for their workers. It has been used against corporations and politicians to protect the environment. We have also seen it in war, where a group of soldiers would sabotage missions, or even the draft, to resist violence, and the killing of innocent lives.

Most of the times we don’t need an entire population to oppose the current status quo. A sufficient amount of powerful revolutionaries can make a difference. At the same time, every person, every action, and every dollar, counts. The less money we feed into the animal product industry, the more life we take away from it. We must asphyxiate its resources until it can no longer sustain itself. We need everyone doing their part in reducing their consumption of animal products. Sooner rather than later, the industry will collapse, and a better system will be born.

Most vegans now days are split between two groups. Those who do eat a vegan diet because they know is the healthier option, and those who do it to protect the animals. My hope is for more people to realize that veganism and fruit based diets are also important to humanity as a whole.

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