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Animal Person

As I've written previously, I never pushed him to go vegan, and now that he is I don't push him to do any vegan education. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Film Environmentalism Factory Farm Glenn Close Home Veganism Winged Migration. I think that any film that presents a problem should also provide solution.

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Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?

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This may take time and maybe lifetimes to build up to that tipping point, but we have to use everyone and every resource we can. Is a vegan's efforts at advocacy worth more than a vegetarian's or even a meat eater's if they happen to agree on the same issue? I do think that there is a real elitism in the movement, however.

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Are We Really a Movement?

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Some fight for veganism, some against factory farms, some against experimentation, poaching, habitat encroachment, etc. But how much can we accomplish when our resources are so divided? (I believe they can speak, but in their own language that we can understand if we only listen.) There is a group for every cause.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

As he puts it, “Until we boycott meat we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factory farming and all the other cruel practices used in rearing animals for food” ( Animal Liberation, 167). It’s a matter of expending one’s resources in accordance with one’s values.