{"id":758323,"date":"2019-09-23T08:22:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T12:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758323"},"modified":"2019-09-23T08:22:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T12:22:55","slug":"ezra-klein-battle-tested-lessons-from-the-animal-rights-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758323","title":{"rendered":"EZRA KLEIN: Battle-tested lessons from the animal rights struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Imagine what it\u2019s like to be an animal rights activist. Tens of billions of animals are being tortured and slaughtered every year. It is, to you, a rolling horror. Bu the world you live in, it\u2019s normal. You\u2019re the weird one. <\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>EZRA KLEIN:<\/strong> &#8216;<em>Imagine, for a moment, what it\u2019s like to be an animal rights activist. Tens of billions of animals are being tortured and slaughtered every year. It is, to you, a rolling horror. But to the people you love, the world you live in \u2014 it\u2019s normal. You\u2019re the weird one. So what do you do? How do you engage, politically and personally, when so few see what you see?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Leah Garc\u00e9s is the executive president of Mercy for Animals and the author of Grilled: Turning Adversaries Into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry, which documents her journey to reduce the suffering of chickens by building coalitions with industrial chicken farmers. Garc\u00e9s story is about more than animal suffering. It\u2019s about the core question of politics: the choice we face, every day, between condemnation and compromise.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Whether your issue is health care or climate or civil rights or abortion or taxes or foreign policy, you\u2019re faced daily with people working for a world you find repellent. What do you do when they\u2019re the majority and you\u2019re the minority? How do you maintain your own morality when the system itself is sick? When do you draw bright lines, and when do you erase the lines you\u2019ve spent your life drawing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>This conversation gets uncomfortable at times. But Garces offers an extraordinary lesson in the daily practice of politics, one worth hearing even if it\u2019s not ultimately your path. You can listen to our whole conversation by subscribing to The Ezra Klein Show wherever you get your podcasts. 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