[A]ny sort of desire for the future to be more responsive to the ecological and the ethical requires a clarification of the system as it now exists, alongside the promotion of wider struggle against structures of zoöcide.

Dog owners in New Taipei City, Taiwan, were given the chance to turn their pets' poop into gold. In an attempt to clean up the streets, anyone handing in a bag of dog poop was entered into a lucky draw. The top prize in the draw was $2,100 in gold bars.

How was it for you, having me so close but without our longed-for touch?

Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.