Not consuming animals is a wonderful thing. But it should be just one of the many things activists do for animals, not an end in itself. There are those in the animal movement who call themselves abolitionists. They think they are patterning themselves on the Abolitionists of the 19th Century who opposed slavery. But our animal abolitionists confuse the meaning of the word abolition with opposition. Abolition means prohibition by law. Nothing modern abolitionists do is aimed at prohibition by law of the Animal Holocaust. If they were doing so, they would be agitating for Socialist governments around the world, as such governments are the most likely to ban animal agriculture. Our modern abolitionists are content to be vegans and urge others to be (a good thing) but oppose everything done by the rest of us (a bad thing). Had those 19th Century Abolitionists acted similarly, all they would have done is refrained from owning slaves. What they actually did was riot, vote, elect, and run the Underground Railroad (sound like the Animal Liberation Front?). They fomented for government action, they supported and opposed candidates, they aligned with Karl Marx and the European Labor movement. Gary Francione, the self-styled leader of modern abolitionists calls the ALF a terrorist organization. Hardly the kind of guy who would have rescued slaves! Our modern abolitionists are unfamiliar history, political strategy, coalition building, organizational development, mass marketing, and, most of all, the philosophies of Animal Rights, and of animal and human liberation.
Posted on: Mon, 12 May 2014 00:29:33 +0000
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