Here's an excerpt from the new article:

For all meat's ubiquity, modern meat production can seem intangible. Thousands of chickens, cows, sheep, pigs and fish are slaughtered every second, but for many of us, this happens behind walls, fences and laws against filming inside slaughterhouses; as such, it can't really be detected in the product that ends up in a supermarket freezer. Relatively few people in affluent countries like the USA or UK are directly involved with the deaths of the creatures they consume, and the process of turning animal corpses into sellable meat is itself a curious kind of "artmaking" that keeps the carnage at a distance. It's the transformation of suffering, mutilated bodies into something shiny, bleached, hairless, predictably proportioned and devoid of signs of trauma, not really "animal tissue" at all.

It's perhaps no surprise, then, that there's a steady appetite for ways of preparing and eating meat that make the act of meat production feel "real" again. These are the varieties of bucolic animal agriculture you see represented on supermarket boxes or labels. Making allowances for cultural differences between Japanese game developers and white English folk like myself, I think Dragon's Dogma 2 is one of many survival games or survival-ish RPGs that channel nostalgia for a quasi-fantastical era when the production of meat was more immediate, "honest" and homely, an opportunity for tribal intimacy around a crackling blaze hung with freshly killed deer. If meat production today relies on separation and alienation - not just from the beasts, but from the often exploited humans who work in slaughterhouses - then escapist fictions like these are both a way of maintaining that distance and symptoms of a desire to overcome it.

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The animal rights game described in the previous post has reached its goal on Kickstarter, so it will be made!

There are still 46 hours left before the campaign is closed, so this is a good opportunity to support the project and get access to the demo or the full game, depending on the tier.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/earthraiser/earthraiser-total-liberation

Either way, this is great news for the movement and us gamers!

The campaign to create a PC game dedicated to animal rights just launched, run by Patrik Baboumian, who is well-known in the community mostly for his weightlifting performance.

There is already a preview of the game, while it costs just $11 to get the demo later this year and $28 to get the full game once it's released.

Personally, I feel that the bare minimum it deserves is the price of a newly released AAA game, which many of us gamers buy all the time. Let's support this special effort!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/earthraiser/earthraiser-total-liberation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5cI9yPZUMY

Buying the current Humble Bundle supports Sweet Farm, which is an animal sanctuary also promoting veganic farming and plant-based eating. Under Choose where your money goes, it is possible to have 100% of the funds to go to Sweet Farm.

The current list of top contributors already contains usernames like GoVeganCowards, Go Vegan ftw! :) and VeganIsEZ.

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/sweet-farm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tee-FK6r00Y

Apparently it didn't stop at the room decoration sign!
One of the latest tweets by Borderlands referred to the limited line of hair colors created by Splat and inspired by some of the characters of Borderlands 3. A SHIFT code redeemable for 2000 points is included in each box.
All of the products are marked as vegan and cruelty free.[www.splathaircolor.com]
The brand itself is positioned as 100% vegan and cruelty-free!