Animal Agriculture Is a Mirror Image of Trump’s America
Animal agriculture has built a world of misery for the many and impunity for the few; where is the leftist coalition that should oppose it?
Covid-19 has upended everything that we’ve been told is inevitable about life in the United States. The horror of living in a plutocracy that is incapable of providing for the health of its citizens has been shocking even to those of us who have always known that Donald Trump’s goal is to destroy government. In response, Americans have called for the radical reforms this country has always needed, from universal healthcare to paid sick leave to emptying prisons and immigration detention camps. All of these ideas are urgent, yet each one on its own does not seem to match the state-inflicted calamity we’re facing.
Even amid all this, I managed to be stunned when Trump used his authority under the Defense Production Act in April to order slaughterhouses to remain open after they had become among the nation’s biggest Coronavirus hot spots. Maybe all the discourse in my Twitter feed, about how the pandemic was finally exposing the death cult of animal agriculture, had fooled me into thinking it was becoming a mainstream issue. I quickly caught on: Oh, of course Trump was not about to preside over a…
