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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan. All day long.

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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"

Animal Person

Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable. The rest of the animal advocacy community, which is the vast majority, who call themselves abolitionists, are abolitionists. would call HSUS an animal rights group (after all, HSUS doesn't even do that).

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Should is not a Solution

10,000 Birds

I wonder instead if this is actually about the difference between advocacy and action, and about the way things ‘should’ be. Should lends itself to advocacy, a crucial aspect of conservation. I’ll refer you to Charlie’s impassioned essay against game hunting again, and you can see what I’m talking about.

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