Should Animals Be Doing More For The Animal Rights Movement?

By Shira | Jun 13, 08 04:11 PM


Should Animals Be Doing More For The Animal Rights Movement?

In other words, animals can't organize, so we humans have to speak up on their behalf. I love the Onion, especially when they make fun of PETA.


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Speaking of PETA: PETA and KFC: “no differences of opinion about how animals should be treated” [Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach - Gary Francione's blog]

Ha! I am so tired of PeTA pretending to give a shit about anything but its own image.

But what are activists to do? I mean, obviously this divide and conquer strategy is working - I live in an area where the four or five other pretty devoted AR activists are all hugely pro-peta - and I hate the dissonance; I hate how the non-humans suffer because of our stupid inability to work things out. And yet, especially after peta's decision to use who I think is a porn star who wears fur (that she definitley does) to promote their spay and neuter campaign, their hypocrisy has reached a new level that I absolutely cannot support them at all. Not that I have in many years for other reasons, but this was the final straw. How can I be silent when it's so apparently wrong? But if I speak out, am I not part of the problem?

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