[Can reducing corporate control of congress be an effective way to help animals?] It seems there are two major opposing forces to animal activism: one is speciesism and public resistance to changing the way we treat animals, and the other is the powerful animal agriculture industry that seeks to maintain its profits at the expense of animal well-being. We usually tackle the first one, but what gains can be made in tackling the second? Im not an expert on this topic, but I know various legislative measures have greatly increased the power of large corporations in the US government. (And I imagine this is true for other governments.) Lawrence Lessig discusses this issue in his TED Talk, saying about congrssional reform: So I want you to take hold, to grab the issue you care the most about. Climate change is mine, but it might be financial reform or a simpler tax system or inequality. Grab that issue, sit it down in front of you, look straight in its eyes, and tell it there is no Christmas this year. There will never be a Christmas. We will never get your issue solved until we fix this issue first. So its not that mine is the most important issue. Its not. Yours is the most important issue, but mine is the first issue, the issue we have to solve before we get to fix the issues you care about. What are the most powerful tools we have to challenge the institutional corruption that gives animal agriculture industry so much power? And is this an effective pursuit, or should we continue to focus as we have on public opinion?
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 01:49:23 +0000
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