
Ground Zero: One Billion Screams
@polanimalclass
We are one billion screams—
from the kill floors, the cages, the labs.
A theory of insurgent animal politics.
Sharath Prabhu, PhD student @UCIrvine
@Sharzard5
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18-07-2025 20:08:11
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Indeed. We are #OneBillionScreams We are Ground Zero: One Billion Screams

In your laboratories, we are burned, drowned, and electrocuted. In your everyday lives, our screams go unheard. Yet we hurl them every day. One day, a crack will form in the edifice, and you will hear us. We are #OneBillionScreams We are Ground Zero: One Billion Screams


You demand inviolable rights for yourselves whilst refusing any to us. Your sense of basic moral decency should revolt at such corrupt ideas but perversely, instead you process your ignominy into allegories of intelligence & progress. We are #OneBillionScreams Ground Zero: One Billion Screams



Devices jammed into baby cows’ mouths so they can’t drink the milk their mothers make for them because that milk is reserved for humans, they starve the babies, drain the mothers, and call it dairy. Cow’s milk is for baby cows We are Ground Zero: One Billion Screams and We are #OneBillionScreams


We endure indescribable suffering our entire short lives, but in your ruthless calculations only human consciousness matters, only human pain & suffering are significant, only human concerns enter your political affairs. We don’t matter We are #OneBillionScreams Ground Zero: One Billion Screams


Because our suffering is so severe, it must be diminished to a "shock tactic." But it is not a shock tactic to those who live it. Does our suffering exist or not? Do you see it as just an aesthetic rupture in your life? We are #OneBillionScreams Ground Zero: One Billion Screams


We nonhuman animals demand to know which aspect of your ‘human nature’ justifies the institutionalised, systematic barbarism you inflict upon us. How with your capacity for moral reasoning can you justify your self-serving despotism? We are #OneBillionScreams Ground Zero: One Billion Screams


Some of us are born as runt piglets, small and feeble. Consequently, we will be torn from our mothers and slammed headfirst into the ground. If not that, gassed. With care, we would have lived happy lives. We resist your tyranny. We are #OneBillionScreams Ground Zero: One Billion Screams


If we could answer your unfettered violence in kind, we would rebel in every major city, from Rome to New York. Accustomed to artificial peace, you find even the calm appeals of most of our allies excessive. We are #OneBillionScreams Ground Zero: One Billion Screams


Your moment of sensory experience surely can’t be worth a lifetime of our suffering. You have other choices, we do not. We're bred into existence, no choice of our own, to appease your entitlement. We are #OneBillionScreams Do you hear us? We are Ground Zero: One Billion Screams Join Us! #vegan

When the law doesn’t protect you, nor the stated values or claims to decency of those who buy the end products of your exploitation, you’re left in the hands of merciless people who wish to profit from your violent abuse. We are #OneBillionScreams We are Ground Zero: One Billion Screams


You speak endlessly on Fanon, Spivak, Foucault, and Cesaire. You analyze historical atrocities. Yet you erase our one billion screams-- the wretched of your systemic speciesist dominion. We are #OneBillionScreams We are Ground Zero: One Billion Screams



Furies are those active in the struggle, those who post from the animal class standpoint again and again. Who will be the next Fury? Some existing Furies are: Graham 🏴 Use ALT ⓋWillowⓋ Vive Le Canada 𝐏𝐚ú𝐥 el Vegano jonina turzi🌱 Sharath Prabhu (myself) We are #OneBillionScreams We are


Graham 🏴 Use ALT Ground Zero: One Billion Screams #onebillionscreams #PolAnimalClass

Diminutive we may be, but nonetheless, exuberant, on the brink of life, or, at least, we would be, in the right environment. And yet: this world awhirl with distortion. A tumble of bodies. A clatter of metal. A plunge into the abyss. We are #OneBillionScreams Ground Zero: One Billion Screams


If we could penetrate your apathy, cut through your indifference, let you see beyond your indoctrination, & remove the blinkers that psychologically distance you from the violence you cause, maybe you’d listen to our screams for mercy. We are #OneBillionScreams Ground Zero: One Billion Screams


It is often said that if animals could speak, humankind would weep. In truth, if you let our voices, our one billion screams enter your hearts, your minds, your ruptured eardrums—simultaneously—you would leap off a cliff. We are #OneBillionScreams We are Ground Zero: One Billion Screams


Though we resist, we cannot use your languages. Though our allies use your languages, they feel the weight of pressure and the fear of seeming self-righteous. But, with the animal class standpoint, we broke through the fortress wall. We are #OneBillionScreams Ground Zero: One Billion Screams
