Until recently, the animal rights movement was regarded as frivolous and trivial even among many liberals, and as a caricature of vapidity or light repression by conservatives.
GLENN GREENWALD: ‘The Intercept, in partnership with Sentient Media, a new media company devoted to the issue of animal rights, launched the debut episode of an eight-part video series covering all aspects of the animal rights movement: political, economic, environmental, cultural, racial, labor, and public health… This is episode two of the series. It focuses on the transformation of the animal rights movement from fringe, leftist enclaves — one that until recently was regarded as frivolous and trivial even among many liberals, and as a caricature of vapidity or light repression by conservatives — to bipartisan and non-ideological mainstream circles…
In sum, the cause of animal rights is about far more than just the treatment of animals, though that by itself would be worthy of substantial attention and energy. As bucolic family farms are becoming rapidly extinct and replaced by massive industrial factory farms that are torturing, slaughtering, creating toxic waste, and endangering public health and environmental safety on a previously unimaginable scale, the ethical and political questions raised by these fundamental changes cannot be avoided no matter one’s political orientation’. SOURCE…
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