Colonial-capitalist animal agriculture is a site of ruin and a process of ruination. Farmed animals at the heart of these agricultural systems become sites of production and capital accumulation, their bodies genetically coded for commoditization and their short lives organized around logics of extraction. Farmed animals in settler states like the United States are simultaneously colonized subjects and settler-descendants and, as such, occupy a complex position in imaginaries of anticolonial futures. This article considers the possibility of flourishing for those farmed species never meant to flourish, explaining first how animal agriculture as a taken-for-granted institution forms part of the fabric of the ruination delivered by colonial-capitalism. And yet, even as animals’ bodies are devastated by production and consumption processes, there exist glimmers of possibility for radically different conceptualizations of farmed animals’ lives in multispecies worlds outside of farming contexts. This article analyzes sanctuaries for formerly farmed animals as one such site of possibility. Sanctuaries mark out geographic spaces as sites of hope that manifest in spite of and actively against colonial-capitalist logics, where human–animal relationships are radically redefined, articulated, and practiced—indeed, where animals’ lives are organized around how they can flourish. As such, this article calls for an unthinkable anticolonial politics of multispecies flourishing beyond colonial-capitalism.

殖民资本主义的畜牧业是一片废墟，也是一个毁灭的过程。这些农业系统核心的养殖动物成为生产和资本积累的场所，它们的身体被基因编码为商品化，它们短暂的生命围绕着提取逻辑进行组织。像美国这样的定居国的养殖动物同时是被殖民的主体和定居者的后裔，因此在反殖民未来的想象中占据着复杂的位置。本文考虑了那些从不打算繁荣的养殖物种繁荣的可能性，首先解释了畜牧业作为一种被视为理所当然的制度是如何构成殖民资本主义破坏结构的一部分。然而，即使动物的身体受到生产和消费过程的摧残，在农业环境之外的多物种世界中，存在对养殖动物生活的完全不同概念化的可能性。本文将以前养殖的动物的庇护所作为可能的场所之一进行分析。保护区将地理空间标记为希望的场所，尽管并积极反对殖民资本主义逻辑，但人类与动物的关系被彻底重新定义、表达和实践——事实上，动物的生活是围绕它们如何能够组织起来的。蓬勃发展。因此，本文呼吁在殖民资本主义之外蓬勃发展的多物种反殖民政治是不可想象的。