ABSTRACT
Just as our ideological, situational, structural and relational stance toward animals and the earth is connected to human violence, the environmental crisis, in turn, affects our behaviors, adaptations, and responses, including violent ones. Having explored the patriarchal domination of “nature” in the previous chapters, this chapter considers how gendered violence is exacerbated by climate change and trans-species harm. Gender violence in the wake of climate-related disasters is addressed. This chapter considers one major causes of climate change—greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the exploitation of nonhuman animals for food in the form of livestock production. This exploitation exists to the extent that nonhuman animals are oppressed by an ideology rooted in the “exploitability” of bodies that are predetermined to have less value. This chapter then moves on to expose the direct violence against both human (slaughterhouse workers) and nonhuman animals in the factory farm industry. The aim here is to connect human and nonhuman oppressions, revealing their inextricable bind. The literature that explores the possibility that cruelty toward nonhuman animals might make violence between humans more likely is also considered
