Tournament: Shirley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Binghamton Reddick-Sehgal | Judge: KOSLOW
1AC
The lives of animals on factory farms:
http://www.animal-rights-action.com/factory-farming.html
“Factory Farming: A Life of Animal Abuse”
What is Factory Farming? This barbaric ….. being fattened up before being slaughtered.
Every day, each and every one of us participates in a war which consists of endless genocide of the non-human. Every year, billions of nonhumans are slaughtered by humans. They are captured, detained, tortured and killed for the sake of consumption. This violence is rendered invisible by a normative understanding of war powers that excuses violence against the non-human as legitimate.
Kochi 9 - Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (Tarik, “Species War: Law, Violence and Animals,” SAGE Journals)
7. The idea that war ….Humans and Other Animals ( London: Routledge, 2000).
This Western conception of war powers is grounded upon a hierarchy of values that regards nonhuman life as raw material for the preservation of human life.
Kochi 9 - Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (Tarik, “Species War: Law, Violence and Animals,” SAGE Journals)
The response of the …. within the early modern juridical ordering of war.
Anthropocentrism has been the foundational model for any and every form of discrimination. Any argument that attempts to claim superiority of the human over the nonhuman rests on the same justifications used by White European males to subjugate other humans
Best 7 – Associate Professor at the University of Texas in the Department of Humanities and Philosophy (Steven, “Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, by Charles Patterson” Journal for Critical Animal Studies, http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_7/bestpatterson.pdf)
While a welcome advance over the …. official Chistianithy left behind.
The first step is a reorientation towards the meaning and language of war. The move to exclude speciesist exploitation from the category of war is the same move of other historical acts of genocide. Our aff demands the recognition of the unending violence against the nonhuman as war.
Kochi 9 - Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (Tarik “Species War: Law, Violence and Animals”
The meanings … treat people like animals.” 14
Thus, in response to the resolutional question of what constitutes legitimate Presidential violence, Rishee and I affirm the value of the nonhuman.
Voting aff acknowledges the existence of species war and the hidden war powers that legislate its existence. We must reject the hierarchy of species and the notion that violence against the nonhuman is legitimate.
Kochi 9 - Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (Tarik, “Species War: Law, Violence and Animals,” SAGE Journals)
Although species war remains …, as a generator, as a motor. 7
The 1AC is an act of assuming a traitorous identity. The dynamics of different forms of privilege posits us all as in positions of both the oppressor and oppressed. In the species war, we are all human oppressors complicit with a cycle of tortuous violence. The only feasible solution is to work against the structures of our own culture. This does not mean we deny our identities or claim unity with the oppressed, but it does mean we adopt an ethic that attempts to minimize our own domination.
Plumwood 2 – (Val, “Environmental Ethics”, p.205-6)
There are, I have suggested, …. more or less open-ended way.
The ballot should decide between competing advocacies. Debates about war powers should not merely concern legal rules, but also the way our normative prescriptions of value infuse the law with meaning.
Kochi 09 - Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (Tarik, “Species War: Law, Violence and Animals,” SAGE Journals)
In everyday speech… understand the legitimate use of violence. 2
2AC
The distinction between good and bare life lies at the heart of Western politics. We must challenge the hierarchy between the human and nonhuman or risk unending violence.
Kochi 9 - Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (Tarik “Species War: Law, Violence and Animals”)
The distinction between … war's norm-alization.
Our use of images of animal suffering is vital to save the movement toward veganism—we unfortunately control uniqueness on this question
DeCoux 09—Associate Professor of Law, Florida Coastal School of Law (Elizabeth, 16 Animal L. 9, “SPEAKING FOR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ANIMAL SUFFERING TO THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT,” Lexis Nexis, RBatra)
*44 Reducing the suffering of …, depravities, and whims of humans.
Wuthrmann 11 – Wesleyan University (“Animal-Attentive Queer Theories”, BA honors thesis at Wesleyan, http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1644andcontext=etd_hon_theses)
For the purpose of my thesis …queer theory’s critical realm.
Wuthrmann 11 – Wesleyan University (“Animal-Attentive Queer Theories”, BA honors thesis at Wesleyan, http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1644andcontext=etd_hon_theses)
This uneasy historical dynamic, as …. on a human/animal binary.