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e eating of dead bodies, and who is kept in reproductive slavery to produce eggs and milk for human beings. The Sexual Politics of Meat and succeeding works, also showed how non-dominant people often become absent referents and the ways that interlocking oppressions occur through the use of the structure of the absent referent. The absent referent is the fact and reality of oppression that disappears when someone's life becomes someone else's pleasure or convenience. Carol will provide an overview of this subject and then focus a part of her discussion on issues of reproductive justice and how current debates about abortion and birth control are related to attitudes toward nonhuman domesticated females whose bodies are always available for manipulation and use. http://humanrightsareanimalrights.com/