From Unoffensive Animal

8th March, Portland OR USA.

Received anonymously via email:

“Last night we cut off the tiny padlock to the breaker box of a butcher shop “pasture pdx” and shut off their power to make the flesh they butchered unsellable. we also sealed the lock on the door with spray foam insulation. We also shut power to two adjacent stores because it was fun. These things are easily reproduceable and we encourage anarchists to think outside of the box. you can do other things then smash windows.

we dedicate this act to Jack, the Susaron 4 comrades in chile, and all antispeciesists who have been put in cages. for total freedom!

-some anarchists”

Comments

anon (not verified) Tue, 03/12/2024 - 13:44

so the cows died for nothing.

oh wait, they died so some ideologues could feel good about themselves.

fuck the yuppie hipster store for sure, but spoiling meat?

just plain stupid.

anon (not verified) Tue, 03/12/2024 - 15:27

In reply to by anon (not verified)

The cows were already dead, you dumb fuck troll. They already died for the ideology of their exploiters.

What was spoiled was the commodity to feed yuppie hipsters, and further promote this kind of commodity in itself.

anon (not verified) Tue, 03/12/2024 - 18:38

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duh. i know they were already dead you dumb fuckin' ideologue. i, however, would not treat their dead flesh that way. it could have been stolen and shared with people who would appreciate it, maybe who could not afford it. making it spoil seems like a further insult. but you probably think eating flesh is some sort of "sin" or "crime".

anon (not verified) Tue, 03/12/2024 - 18:55

In reply to by anon (not verified)

yeah, ok bud, you have spoiled their ability to "further promote this kind of commodity." sure. tell yerself what you need to to make that tofu taste good.

delusional rhetoric rarely conceals ideological stupidity.

anon (not verified) Wed, 03/13/2024 - 01:45

In reply to by anon (not verified)

"tofu"

Here goes your classic first-level meathead stereotype on vegan cuisine.

RipEye (not verified) Wed, 03/13/2024 - 05:31

In reply to by anon (not verified)

Bring it ON!! I absolutely LOVE the "classic first-level meathead stereotype on vegan cuisine"!! These dolts cannot see out of their own tiny, sealed reality tunnels. In fact, it's a good lesson for all: Learn how NOT to think by closing yourself off like a true carnivore! Ha! Now watch him weep as he drives off into the sunset in his Ford F550 rolling coal as fast as possible to get home in time for Hannity.

anon (not verified) Wed, 03/13/2024 - 11:14

WHY DID THECOLLECTIVE TAG THIS WITH not-vegan? WHAT IS THIS PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE SHIT? FUCK!

anon (not verified) Wed, 03/13/2024 - 14:09

It's because non-vegan knife wielding butchers could have pounced on the vegans whilst they cut the power to the freezers you stoopid nancy boyo!

anon (not verified) Wed, 03/13/2024 - 18:33

Why didn't they take the meat instead of letting it spoil? They could've done all the other stuff and it'd have the same effect.

anon (not verified) Wed, 03/13/2024 - 18:37

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their goal was to sabotage meat industry, not promote it by handing out free samples of their product.

it’s okay if you’re not vegan, neither am i.

but don’t play dumb.

anon (not verified) Sat, 03/16/2024 - 03:30

Idk, I see handling a corpse like this as disrespectful. Might sound religious or moralistic but veganism takes that cake anyway.

Go release some animals instead.

anonymous (not verified) Sat, 03/16/2024 - 08:15

In reply to by anon (not verified)

we look forward to your communique about your action that you feel good about.

anon (not verified) Sat, 03/16/2024 - 11:44

We nihilo-anarchs don't have to make gut-wrenching choices when a host places a plate of meat in front of us! We gratefully consume the corpse, well knowing that we inturn shall be unmercifully consumed by the Abyss :()

anon (not verified) Sat, 03/16/2024 - 12:00

It seems like very few radicals understand the importance of meat in the human diet. We are after all an evolved species. There has never been a traditional society anywhere in the world that was vegan and there are/were many that were entirely meat based. I live in Alaska, a part of the world where meat consumption by all Ingenious Peoples was the primary component of the diet until Colonization. As recent as the 1940s, Alaskan Native's and all Circumpolar Inuit had zero cancer, T2 diabetes or any other Disease of Civilization. Now that they eat the commodities foods (grains, processed foods, etc) their rates of these diseases has skyrocketed above the national average. It's fucking tragic.
If someone decides they want to become a vegan, that's on them. However, you must realize that there are many vitally important "ESSENTIAL" nutrients that humans must get from meat. Yuppie vegans can afford to shop for the supplements that are required to stave off malnutrition, but poor people don't have that option. Meat is our species' food. To think otherwise is to deny evolution and one's own humanness.

anon (not verified) Sat, 03/16/2024 - 15:03

In reply to by anon (not verified)

You're taking some pretty bad minority examples here... Native populations living in conditions where so few edible plants can grow and meat's the best choice?

Another thing of context: the mass-consumer meat industry, and how terrible that this both for the animals getting grown and fed with agro-ibdustry crap and hormones, to get slaughtered later by the millions in factories, so that you get pieces of mediocre toxic meat packaged in plastic at the Costco...

Didja didja know that this shit industry is also using a significant portion of every country's fertile soils (like up to 50% in a place like Denmark) just to produce GMO cattle feed? Oh and let's not talk about how this shit industry systematically pollutes the waters all around the world with with all the fertilizers, cattle poo, and toxic waste from cheese production so that people in many places are forced to buy water in plastic bottles to not get sick to death...

This the "Healing Meat" the natives used to be eating?

anon (not verified) Sat, 03/16/2024 - 17:19

In reply to by anon (not verified)

In the arctic, where plant growth is minimal, indigenous diets revolve around meat. In India, near the equator, vegetarianism has been a cultural norm for millennia. Do I have to explain basic ecology to you or…???? People get used to eating what’s around. No need to mystify the basic of nutrition into an ethos of “killing animals makes us human.”

anon (not verified) Sun, 03/17/2024 - 17:11

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"Yuppie vegans can afford to shop for the supplements that are required to stave off malnutrition, but poor people don't have that option." - this is completely untrue. I know someone who lives in Canada - a western developed nation state, probably a situation not too dissimilar from the readership of this website - who has a $20-40 per month budget and is on a vegan diet.

"Meat is our species' food. To think otherwise is to deny evolution and one's own humanness." - lazy, boring, unimaginative, etc. appeal to "nature." are we "denying" evolution like we deny god now? some individuals a couple hundred years ago decided to be omnivorous about it and now we are damned if we make a change. alright!

Kevin Tucker (not verified) Wed, 03/20/2024 - 13:35

In reply to by anon (not verified)

You are a caged animal held captive in a burning world.
This is your world on domestication.
Tamed. Hurting. Enslaved.
We are sold narratives to keep us from looking up. To keep us from seeing that the sheer destruction caused by civilization is not inevitable. To see that the world production has built is terminal. To see that the path paved by industrialism is a short cut to catastrophic fallout. To see that the destiny manifested by settler colonialism was a death sentence for those who chose life over survival.
You were born a hunter-gatherer. 
 You were born a social animal, one that moves within the land and moves between bands in a world that was meant to be less measured, less exact. We were meant for lives with more meaning and less consequence. A life where connection and meaning are implicit. Where animals have voices and trees have stories. A world where rivers flow unabated and water isn’t a health hazard.

We won’t see that the primal anarchy we have grown within still exists. That there are those who are still fighting for it. There are those who refuse to be caged. Those who refuse to die. 
 We are here. A living world struggling to survive while a globalized techno-industrial civilization actively tries to bury it. Caged and tamed, docile even while boiling over with a destructive rage and sadness: hurt and wounded, but not broken.

(cashapp: blackandgreenpress venmo and paypal: blackandgreen)

anon (not verified) Sat, 03/16/2024 - 12:14

these comments are depressing. what is it about veganism that gets so many idiots angry?

anyway, critics, when YOU do YOUR action (which you never will), you can ensure it's done correctly. until that day, support those with the guts to act on their beliefs

anon (not verified) Wed, 03/20/2024 - 17:18

In reply to by anon (not verified)

1. go to google.com
2. type in "logical fallacies"
3. click on the wikipedia link, or anything else you would like
4. time for reading and self-reflection!

anon (not verified) Wed, 03/20/2024 - 01:24

Wonder when the vegan cult/fad/subculture/whatever will fade away, shit was old 20 years ago. 90% hipsters and racists, disappointing folks still letting them larp as radicals

anon (not verified) Wed, 03/20/2024 - 04:11

In reply to by anon (not verified)

That'll be oddly at the same time when you realize no one's keeping you to burn half a month's worth of any prole's paycheck at the steak house, you meat head.

anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/20/2024 - 06:03

In reply to by anon (not verified)

what specific and yet entirely vague accusations.

blaming vegans for veganism being a fad is hardly meaningful. and 90% of everyone is racist, so you're not saying much there either.

i'd rather talk to anarchists who are making daily decisions about how they participate (and don't) in quotidian oppression, even if their decisions don't have the capacity to make fundamental change (duh, whose do?), than to anarchists who are self righteous about other people's choices. of course, the venn diagram there is significant, but you're proof enough that self righteousness comes in carnivore too.

anon (not verified) Wed, 03/20/2024 - 07:44

In reply to by anon (not verified)

Only when the nihilistic survival antithesis takes hold, until then, the vain novelty of smug secure radical diet expression will be seen for what it is, cold salad on a hot plate.

anon (not verified) Wed, 03/20/2024 - 08:37

In reply to by anon (not verified)

What a snowflake. Scared of a few vegans doing radical shit.
"OooOooh nOooo some anarchists aren't eating animals and are attacking things! OoOoh nOooo it threatens my sense of self and do-nothingness!" ~You

anon (not verified) Wed, 03/20/2024 - 09:52

In reply to by anon (not verified)

Look, everybody. This bootlicker thinks that sabotage and property destruction isn't radical. What a buffoon!

anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:50

In reply to by anon (not verified)

property destruction is not necessarily radical, is it? are soccer riots (for example) radical? am reminded of that woman economist who explained how everything feeds the economy, including car wrecks and other personally unfortunate events...

also, fuck the word bootlicker. so overused and meaningless.

lumpy (not verified) Wed, 03/20/2024 - 11:05

In reply to by anonymous (not verified)

"are soccer riots radical?"

sometimes? depends who's rioting. an action usually exists within a political context but in this case, any lasting rupture of the social peace has plenty of political consequences, including radicalizing participants so ... short answer: it's more radical than not rioting like a lil'bootlick who doesn't riot

anon (not verified) Wed, 03/20/2024 - 22:50

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We are not talking about soccer riots, you desperate, goalpost-moving bootlicker. This was literally a radically motivated act of sabotage and property destruction with a radical message communicated after the fact.

anon (not verified) Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:22

In reply to by anonymous (not verified)

This was literally, a by definition, radical action by anarchists attacking a target they oppose. What is there left to be "explaining"? 01:24 claimed they were 'larping as radicals' and I simply pointed out that they were indeed radicals and this action wasn't a larp. Then there was this entire goalpost-moving silliness about soccer riots that is neither here nor there. WTF do you keep deleting it? Isn't this place supposed to be about having conversation?

anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/22/2024 - 11:00

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"radical radical radical radical radical

what don't you understand, dummy?"

ps: i agree that the larping as radicals is also a dumb comment that doesn't say much. not taking sides in this conversation, just want it to be about something.

You /s (not verified) Fri, 03/22/2024 - 11:51

In reply to by anonymous (not verified)

Nobody should use any words at all on Anews in 2024 because they AKSHULLY SAY NOTHING!!! We anarchs communicate telepathically and need no EMPTY WORDS!

anon (not verified) Fri, 03/22/2024 - 12:34

In reply to by anonymous (not verified)

Let me 'splain this to you, buddy.

Some vegan anarchists in Portland took direct action against what they believe to be an enemy. They perceived the attack on the butcher shop as getting to the root the problem with said enemy. Do you understand now? Learning is hard.

Try this if you still don't get it: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radical

Also maybe you would like this: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anarchist

Learning is fun! Yay!

anon (not verified) Fri, 03/22/2024 - 14:50

In reply to by anon (not verified)

Yes, vegans only eat tofu. 100% tofu dishes, sometimes sparkled with a few spices (katchup or salt n peppar). In da world... it's either tofu or mooo-eeeaat for meeeat heads like muh! No such thing as veggies, cereals and legumes. Nah, never happened. But I know nuthing about cooking coz mah mom was doing all the cooking, and now it's the surburban Xian house wife doin' the microwave meals. Or it's HHHHHMMMMMS weekend's steak house for teh family after watching sum dum-dumb blockbuster at the megaplex. Muhrikaaaah.

anon (not verified) Fri, 03/22/2024 - 14:59

In reply to by anon (not verified)

you two both want to have the most boring fucking name-calling sessions back and forth. again, neither of you is making a fucking point, just repeating yourselves.

apparently that's how you have fun though, so, you do youse.

maybe anews will eventually get tags for comments and we can start labeling some of these #empty-as-fuck

anon (not verified) Wed, 03/20/2024 - 17:20

In reply to by anon (not verified)

I swear the way the word "radical" has been abused is nothing short of horrific violence. Might as well change the definition of it to "meaningless contrarianism" or "whatever that eco-nihilist told me the other day."

anon (not verified) Wed, 03/20/2024 - 18:43

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Radical = getting to the root of a certain dynamic. It's why anarchy is radical, instead of a stodgy old macroscopical marxism, it strives to get to the roots of domination which is why I care about interpersonal relationships just as much as the violence of the state.

anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/20/2024 - 19:31

In reply to by anon (not verified)

that's not a useful definition here: too general and vague. what makes something = getting to the root? why do you say there is no "certain dynamic" involved in attacking a business that is doing something that people don't like? how is it not radical to generalize attacks along a spectrum of arenas all involving various aspects of something undesirable?

anarchy is radical, attacking a butcher isn't radical; those statements can be the beginning of an explanation, but by themselves they don't say anything.

anon (not verified) Thu, 03/21/2024 - 02:48

In reply to by anonymous (not verified)

Attacking a butcher makes it clear that the social or moral norm, at least in that area, is being pushed towards animal lib. If you're thinking of some grand revolution as the effective meaningful change, then yes this is just a meaningless drop in the water. Fortunately that just isn't true.

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