Kafer writes, “Visions of nature are often idealized and depoliticized fantasies, and disability plays an integral, if often unmarked, role in marking the limit of these fantasies.”26 Such visions of nature are evident in humane meat arguments, which betray a romanticization of a natural state of things that leaves out certain bodies and histories, including the disabled body. Narratives drawn from such essentialized visions of nature value strength, autonomy, productivity, and independence—the same patriarchal values that have historically fueled the oppression of more vulnerable bodies.
