‘Turn The Volume Up’: What Zohran Mamdani’s victory teaches us about animal liberation
‘Turn The Volume Up’: What Zohran Mamdani’s victory teaches us about animal liberation
We constantly hear that we need to water down the message of veganism to make it more palatable. Zohran Mamdani’s victory underscores one simple truth: people are hungering for radical change. At its core, the animal liberation message — like all liberation messages — has always been and will always be profoundly radical. For people to go vegan, stay vegan, and fight for actual animal liberation, we do not need to tone down our message. We need to turn the volume up. People do not want a new consumer choice, a quirky diet, or a slightly improved cruelty commodity. They […]
MORAL ORDER: The coming revolution of animal rights
MORAL ORDER: The coming revolution of animal rights
Peter Singer argues that moral systems that expand rights have a natural logic that causes them to win out over their exclusive alternatives. “Rights to me but not to thee” simply doesn’t have much rhetorical power. Could something be similarly unlocked if our moral circle expanded to other species? It could not come a moment too soon. An expanding circle, beyond the frontiers of intelligence or species, may be the only thing that saves us. The human condition has benefitted immensely from civilizations with diverse populations looking beyond religion, race, or creed. The condition of all sentient beings will be […]
‘Arresting Juxtaposition’: The turkey sandwich hurler and the chicken rescuer
‘Arresting Juxtaposition’: The turkey sandwich hurler and the chicken rescuer
The acquittal of ‘sandwich guy’ Sean Dunn and the recent conviction of animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg form an arresting juxtaposition. Both defendants essentially conceded the facts of the crimes for which they were charged. Dunn hurled a sandwich made from slaughtered turkey parts at Customs and Border Patrol agent in protest of President Trump’s policies. Rosenberg, a member of Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), was carrying out an open rescue of sick and injured chickens in protest of factory farming. The fact that a California judge and jury were unwilling to see the cruelty that goes into the supplying of […]
