The conversion of natural habitats to agricultural land, urban areas, and infrastructure represents the single greatest threat to wildlife worldwide. An estimated 40% of the Earth’s land surface is now used for food production. The expansion of the human footprint has left wildlife with smaller, more fragmented territories, often insufficient to maintain viable populations.

About 5/6 of that is animal agriculture.

For billions of people worldwide, wild-caught fish, bush meat, and other wildlife products provide essential protein and income.

Exploiting and killing other beings is NOT essential. To the contrary, it is literally the cause of the problem that the article is about, from habitat destruction to climate change, and indeed [threatens the survival](https://web.archive.org/web/20250404131036/https://veganhorizon.substack.com/p/mea

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While it’s true many people are wrapped up in a consumer-corporate lifestyle and think trying to change the world is a naïve or impossible task not worth even trying, many other people are more actively compassionate and are giving a lot of time and effort to try and make this world a better place. Some of those engaged in this productive work, like The School of Living, have a better vision than others on how to achieve the goal of a healthier and more just society; from its founder Ralph Borsodi’s book Flight From the City, along with the later Decentralism by Mildred J. Loomis, to current vegan homesteading projects like Ahimsa Village, I find the ideas and praxis of philosophy toward achieving a sustainable society to be very on-target. Unfortunately many others do not yet see how crucial it is for people to be connected to the Earth in a more direct, natural and free way in order for there to be global social-justice, and in order to restore our

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Authors: Chris P. Kale, Len Tilbürger
Topics: #anarchism #animalliberation #animalrights #FoodNotBombs #hardcore #intersectionality #music #punk #UnitedKingdom #Vegan
Date: 2014

This zine examines the frequent overlap between punk culture and animal rights^[1] activism/vegan consumption habits. It is argued that this relationship is most strongly and consistently expressed, and most sensibly understood, in connection with anarchism.

Examining this relationship is important in several ways. Firstly, it is under-researched and overlooked – as environmental journalist Will Potter argues, given the importance that punk plays in the political development of individual activists, it is surprising that ‘there is a shortage of research into punk’s impact on animal rights and environmental activism.’^[2] This zine, which brings together material from numerous bands, zines, patches, leaflets, and newly researched interview material, addresses this absence by considering th

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