To eat animals, or not to eat animals, that is a question. If you’re like most people, which is to say you’re not in the Animal Rights movement, you’ll have no idea what the title of this essay is about: WTF is “welfarism” vs. “abolitionism” ? You know what these 2 “isms” mean in …
Ban “factory farms” in Sonoma County, CA? In the animal activist and animal rights communities, there is discussion and debate about use of the term — and even the definition of the term — “factory farm.” Let’s address the contentious issue of whether or not to “ban factory farms” this way: below is copied, …
I was offended by the comparison. Until I thought a lot more about it. Will you? For years I winced whenever an animal rights activist used the word “holocaust” to describe the slaughter of animals for human consumption. Even though I knew the scale of the animal-killing we humans do — many millions of …