Animal Person

JULY 19, 2009

The animal rights movement, such as it is, is experiencing somewhat of a crisis of usage. I feel the unique pain they experience when they hear or read ( gasp! ) I feel for the purist also with regard to the terms "animal rights" and "abolition." Once again, the people wrote the rules (43).

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. 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.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan).

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