Tell the average leftist that animal rights should be part of the liberation struggle and they will laugh at you. Tell an animal rights activist that giving awards to the most “humane” slaughterhouses is simply prolonging the suffering of animals, and you will get a bunch of arguments against it. The book exposes the many intersections of human and animal oppression in light of capitalist exploitation. The author examines animal rights not only from an ethical point of view, but also through the prism of the nature of labor and commodity relations, analyzes the concepts of oppression, power and hierarchy at all levels. Bob Torres brings together Marx's practical political economy, Bookchin's social ecology, and his own harsh critique of the modern animal rights movement. He challenges the conventional understanding of anti-capitalist struggle and makes a compelling case for why animals must be excluded from all industries - and from our plates.