‘Longtermism’: Making the far-future go well for animals should be top priority of animal rights movement
‘Longtermism’: Making the far-future go well for animals should be top priority of animal rights movement
The scale of future animal suffering is truly incomprehensible. There could be countless future generations that our actions might affect. If we’re serious about wanting to benefit animals, we should mostly be concerned with how our actions affect them over long-time scales. If your animal welfare intervention has no chance of making things better more than a hundred years out, you should probably stop doing it. The core argument for ‘Longtermism’ is that the future is huge. This is one of the big challenges that we’ll need to solve to get a good future, and it’s the most important challenge in the […]
Let’s ‘Marshall’ Our Forces: Seven lessons from the ‘impossible’ Ridglan Farms Rescue
Let’s ‘Marshall’ Our Forces: Seven lessons from the ‘impossible’ Ridglan Farms Rescue
The rescue at Ridglan Farms should have been an impossible mission. Ridglan had a barbed wire fence and was on high alert for activists. The system was broken and corrupt. That left us facing seemingly impossible odds. But we took on the mission anyway. And we won. Every one of the Ridglan dogs is now free. Now, just 7 months later, we face another daunting challenge: rescuing the 16,000 dogs at Marshall BioResources. Once again, people are saying it is an impossible mission. But the Marshall rescue can nonetheless be done. In fact, it must be done. To pull it off, […]
OPEN ALL CAGES: Animal rights activists win decisive trial over peaceful protest
OPEN ALL CAGES: Animal rights activists win decisive trial over peaceful protest
On Oct. 30, Animal Equality protesters won a court hearing with the defense asserting that their peaceful protests outside Kroger headquarters were protected by the First Amendment. The activists were victorious in their trials and are able to continue their protests until Kroger agrees to meet with them to establish a plan for ending caged hens. OLIVIA WEN: Since early May, animal rights activists from the international group Animal Equality have been protesting outside the Kroger headquarters, located in downtown Cincinnati… Their demonstrations are part of a bigger movement against Kroger’s current policy of selling caged eggs — eggs that are […]
