Bob Torres

If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can…

— Bob Torres

“Capitalism is marked by a division between classes, with one class holding private ownership of the means of production, and another class…

— Bob Torres

“In her book Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail, Deborah Barndt examines the seemingly simple tomato from its…

— Bob Torres

“Much as we live in an economic and social order that is structured to exploit people, we live in one that is…

— Bob Torres

“We can argue about their intelligence (which we would likely define in human-centric terms anyway), their ability to understand human language, or…

— Bob Torres

“What, then, is the solution to this moral schizophrenia we have about animals? According to Francione, we only have two choices: we…

— Bob Torres

“Just as humanity has extended this basic equal consideration to humans (including those who were once outside of our moral community), we…

— Bob Torres

Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you…

— Bob Torres

Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals…

— Bob Torres

“What we see in stark relief is that the production of goods is about social relationships.”

— Bob Torres

“Given that animals are nothing more than mere tools for the production of capital, the only way to abolish their exploitation is…

— Bob Torres

“We have created a false dichotomy between behaviors attributable to companion animals and those of other species that blinds us to the…

— Bob Torres

“If we’re to be successful fighting oppression—whether based on race, class, species, or gender identity—we’re going to need to fight the heart…

— Bob Torres

“We need to challenge the hierarchy in our own lives, and begin living in a way that promotes mutuality. If we take…

— Bob Torres

“Capitalism not only validates precapitalist notions of the domination of nature by man; it turns the plunder of nature into society’s law…

— Bob Torres

“Challenging the earlier economists of his day, Marx was keen to show how the products of capitalism did not just magically appear,…

— Bob Torres

“If we’re all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we come…

— Bob Torres

“Hierarchy is a toxic inheritance from previous eras that we keep reproducing as a matter of our social reproduction, but that does…

— Bob Torres