Common Stock Recordings http://www.commonstockrecordings.com An Exploratory Audio Archive of Home-read Stories & Essays Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:00:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Elisée Reclus on Anarchism, Vegetarianism and Geography http://www.commonstockrecordings.com/elisee-reclus-on-anarchism-vegetarianism-and-geography/ http://www.commonstockrecordings.com/elisee-reclus-on-anarchism-vegetarianism-and-geography/#comments Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:41:56 +0000 molly http://www.commonstockrecordings.com/?p=301 In the 1901 essay On Vegetarianism, Elisée Reclus (1830-1905), anarchist and prominent geographer, recounts his traumatic experiences witnessing butchery at an early age. He attempts to describe the complicated relationships between humans and the animals they raise for slaughter, for labor and for companionship, and draws connections between the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in China [...]

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]]> In the 1901 essay On Vegetarianism, Elisée Reclus (1830-1905), anarchist and prominent geographer, recounts his traumatic experiences witnessing butchery at an early age. He attempts to describe the complicated relationships between humans and the animals they raise for slaughter, for labor and for companionship, and draws connections between the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in China by allied international forces and the savagery of killing and eating animals. Meat production is perceived as an obstacle to shared lives of greater beauty and aesthetic harmony – as Reclus writes, “we hope before long that flesh-eaters will at least have the politeness to hide their food. Slaughter houses are relegated to distant suburbs ; let the butchers’ shops be placed there too, where, like stables, they shall be concealed in obscure corners.”

      

Elisée Reclus, by Nadar                                        Rand McNally & Co.’s new twelve inch terrestrial globe (1891)

 

More from Reclus:

Why Anarchists Don’t Vote

A Great Globe

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