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Is the Abolitionist approach the only way to Animal Rights and success?
Should we focus on vegan education and refuse to cooperate with welfarists and new welfarist?
Veganism is not merely a matter of diet; it is a moral and political commitment to abolition on the individual level and extends not only to matters of food, but to clothing, other products, and other personal actions and choices. Becoming a vegan is the one thing that we can all do today—right now—to help animals. It does not require an expensive campaign, the involvement of a large organization, legislation, or anything other than our recognition that if “animal rights” means anything, it means that we cannot justify consuming meat, fish, dairy, eggs, or other animal products. by Gary L. Francione
Read more at Veganism: The Fundamental Principle of the Abolitionist MovementWhy is the history of animal welfare an incessant procession of incalculable defeats? Why does every welfarist "victory" demonstrate nothing but impotence? Why, even though we recognized that we have direct moral obligations to animals two hundred years ago, are nonhumans held captive in spaces so small that they cannot move? Why, after 200 hundreds of years of welfarism (the first welfare law was enacted in 1641, and welfarists have been trying to implement their ideology for the past couple of hundred years), is humans' hegemony over other animals still absolute? Why do we have gestation crates and battery cages; drug addiction and burn experiments? In short, why has animal welfare not negated institutionalized animal exploitation at all? by James Crump
Read more at Why Can't Animal Welfare Lead to Animal Rights?
Many people just aren't so honest with themselves or others these days.
Love and respect IS so very important as "grandmastertofu" says. One must walk the talk to be taken seriously though.
BUT i do have a problem with you people trying to protray farmers as cruel and brutal people that do not care for animals at all.
Our comment to the land over the last 10 years where we have witnessed the wrorst drought we have ever seen is evidence that we care for our animals and want the best for them.
You say that 'Education and compasion are key' when really you are not educated about the very humane practices that farmers undertake, you are simply scared by the blood and gore of musing and other related pratices.
It's like taking your child to the doctors for a shot agaist chicken pox a moment of pain and save a live and a consitable amount of far worse pain.
This is very much the same for sheep the skin is removed from that backside of the sheep to prevent flystrike which involes flys laying there eggs in the soiled wool and then maggots slowly eating the sheep alive! Causing a lot of pain and if untreated death
education is the key but it is you that needs education!