09-02-2021
Republished from a counter-information website.
“Banner hung for solidarity with anti-hunting action
We live in a time when wild animals are almost extinct. Hunters-fishermen have fun by torturing and killing the remaining animals, which are treated in a speciesist manner as trophies of each fascist, murderer, macho hunter.
Today, hunting and fishing do not meet subsistence needs, as they did in earlier times or in other cultures, but have been established as a hobby or means of entertainment and amusement. It is a shameful and immoral action, as the fisherman-hunter exhausts the power given to him by using unequal means (rifle, shotgun, dynamite, nets, traps, scattered projectiles, etc.) in relation to the animals, since it is almost impossible for them to escape and usually ends up killing them. Hunting and fishing are not only a method of amusement for the middle and upper classes, but exist in almost all social stratification. Moreover, these actions of murder are directly linked to the patriarchy and its power pattern. It is no coincidence, of course, that the percentage of femicides committed by male hunters is high.
We, as anarchist antispeciesists queer subjects, stand against every authoritarian action towards non-human animals, as well as towards human animals and nature, regardless of if this is called fishing, hunting, food-clothing industry, wind power parks, or Attica zoo.
In the current circumstances, according to a state decision and while hunting has been banned due to covid-19, the hunting of wild boar has been extended in order to combat African swine fever in the regions of Rhodope, Evros and Xanthi, with the right to hunt without restriction. The State, as the dominant form of power, is in fact legitimising the killing of animals, using the risk of African swine fever as a pretext. In other words, anything defined by the state as a public health risk must be exterminated, a plan that fits into the broader model of biopolitics – bio-power, as in the case of the state management of covid-19. There is, therefore, a need to include in our analyses non-human animals, which in very few cases have self-determination of their bodies.
We express our solidarity with D. and T., who are being prosecuted for their anti-hunting activities because they prevented a hunter from killing an animal. As part of solidarity actions for the above, a banner was hung in the F.E.P.A.
Anarcho-queer antispeciesist structure Helona”
