tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5068486315338288419.post8403893812624882858..comments2024-03-28T09:57:15.040+11:00Comments on Artist as Family: All things fall and are built again: a neopeasant responseArtist as Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000057566127487240noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5068486315338288419.post-53385147744995547422020-03-20T22:27:35.979+11:002020-03-20T22:27:35.979+11:00Thanks so much ArielThanks so much ArielArtist as Familyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01000057566127487240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5068486315338288419.post-42357011112961934182020-03-20T22:27:07.962+11:002020-03-20T22:27:07.962+11:00This was big for us too when we started thinking t...This was big for us too when we started thinking through all the big structural problems of global society 15-20 years ago. Patrick grew up butchering animals, although would also eat commercially produced meat. Meg was a vego for 20 years, up until age 30. Then about 12 years ago we started to live as though the global fossil economy was no longer in place (for obvious reasons which are coming to the fore now). And when we began that conscious transition we realised that in not eating out of the industrial food bowl we needed to have all food (that could grow in this region) on the table. It's usually only the very privileged who can make the choice whether to eat animals or not, that is those privileged living in cheap crude oil societies. <br /><br />When peoples' food production is not seen or sensed there is always violence on your plate be you a vegan, vego or omnivore. For example, every commercial pulse, fruit, nut and grain (organic or conventionally grown) requires the wholesale killings of wild animals to protect those crops. We are blind to this when we go to supermarkets, as we are blinded to how industrial capital has depopulated 65% of species on the planet in the past 50 years because of the way we live, because people get their meat from feedlots, their almonds from California, their coffee from Brazil. <br /><br />We are reculturing a direct engagement with life, where our violence as eaters is not masked or disguised. We see, touch, smell and handle our violence everyday. We have come to accept it. This is what makes us understand what really goes into being human and a custodial species. We are both predators and prey (prey to march flies, mosquitos, sandflies, viruses and sometimes larger critters like sharks). Systemic blind violence is catastrophic in the world, it makes our species pretend violence isn't a part of everyday life and so the result is man-made mass death, which comes from veiled violence. We are saying, own your violence to stop systemic mass violence. <br /><br />Are you socially isolating at home? What will you do when your food runs out? We haven't shopped at a supermarket for ten years, nor owned a car or flown in this time (except once as guests at an Indigenous health conference). We are as prepared for the future as we can be, and there will be play and song and honouring and ritual in it as there is now. But there won't be fetishisation of animals as pets and cute objects. Sometimes animals will be butchered and carrots slaughtered and other sentient life forms will die so we can live before we too die and feed the trees, mycelium and animals, and then we will go into making their lives more possible until they too are eaten. <br /><br />Thanks so much for your interest.Artist as Familyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01000057566127487240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5068486315338288419.post-85294323186894389992020-03-20T21:30:58.446+11:002020-03-20T21:30:58.446+11:00"recultering society..." I totally agree..."recultering society..." I totally agree on almost everything you said here and i think you do a geest job at living. I Just can't get my head around the 'eating animals/animal products part'. I onderstand that animals van be very useful and good for the land and that they belong in the ecosystems. But why slit their throats or take their eggs and milk? Without that you could live equally as good and healthy as a human and let other animals live and enjoy life the wat you do too. I van see that you hang onto the cultural and traditional lives of your/our ancestors..but then again you, yourself talk about recultering society, do why not stop eating and using animals for food but Just live and work and play together with Them. Just that, be one. Marjankahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09279753474467510276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5068486315338288419.post-61325737486576202502020-02-06T07:01:15.527+11:002020-02-06T07:01:15.527+11:00This is an amazing piece. Your quote under Food re...This is an amazing piece. Your quote under Food really says so much to me. Thank you for what you all are doing ~ it gives me hope and resolve.Arielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04238457327189595443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5068486315338288419.post-50982092329440455342020-02-04T14:35:41.902+11:002020-02-04T14:35:41.902+11:00Thanks Dylan, that pile is only a fifth of what...Thanks Dylan, that pile is only a fifth of what's in the creek. A few more working bees with goodly neighbours and awesome types will see them converted into goat shelters before the coming winter. All the best from us...Artist as Familyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01000057566127487240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5068486315338288419.post-56243974687232743732020-02-02T22:53:55.190+11:002020-02-02T22:53:55.190+11:00Disgusting how many tyres you had to pull out, but...Disgusting how many tyres you had to pull out, but good on you all for doing it!! We removed some from our town's dam when the water was low - people throwing them into the town's drinking water is absurd!<br /><br />Thanks as usual for the post - always good to read, best regards<br />DylanDylloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10559645478378234550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5068486315338288419.post-50943496648861291292020-02-01T18:00:02.413+11:002020-02-01T18:00:02.413+11:00Big love to you, Annabel. Big love to you, Annabel. Artist as Familyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01000057566127487240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5068486315338288419.post-49424196330584950272020-01-31T00:19:33.265+11:002020-01-31T00:19:33.265+11:00You are deep, rich, pungent soil. Thank you for he...You are deep, rich, pungent soil. Thank you for helping me grow.Annabel Mazzottihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11336063362023252489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5068486315338288419.post-49854898119818151002020-01-30T16:17:39.979+11:002020-01-30T16:17:39.979+11:00Thanks Chris!Thanks Chris!Artist as Familyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01000057566127487240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5068486315338288419.post-91739271023561726332020-01-30T15:22:18.175+11:002020-01-30T15:22:18.175+11:00"you" should be your neopeasantry."you" should be your neopeasantry.Chris D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01970112590818535056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5068486315338288419.post-28819965924782293082020-01-30T15:20:10.762+11:002020-01-30T15:20:10.762+11:00I have missed your frequent Fb contributions but I...I have missed your frequent Fb contributions but I really enjoy the updates that make it to Fb. I send my best wishes for productive and sustainable practices to emerge from your local govt encounters.<br />Regards from Chris D,<br />a SEQ admirer of you neopeasantry.Chris D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01970112590818535056noreply@blogger.com