I think much of the criticism of “single-issue campaigns” assumes that we (as people involved in any particular advocacy) overestimate our own influence and underestimate the ability of individual people to think on their own. I will try to explain. Suppose that a person witnesses a SIC and thinks to themselves “Those people were [...]
Crossposted at ARZone You’ll often hear about how (in the US anyway) we’ve had 200 years of animal welfare and still, nothing has changed except that the rate of use and the killing of other animals has increased. Fair enough. I wonder about what that means though as far as what we should do [...]
Once I thought that the videos taken by groups such as Mercy for Animals were videos showing the extreme behavior of certain bad actors, and that, as such, they could be dismissed by the general population as not being representative of the “animal industry” as a whole. However, at that time I was allowing [...]
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How many people do you know who were once staunchly conservative in their politics but who are now very liberal? Surely you know people who were once hippies, who said “down with the establishment” and “never trust anyone over 30″, who are now respected elder members of that establishment they once decried. How many [...]
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I wrote a blog post in September of 2010 that I called Steve Best’s Worst Idea. In it, I described what I saw as Dr. Best’s wrong answer to an important question about the use of “aggressive confrontational militant actions.” No long afterwards (and with the help of someone who commented on that post) [...]
Monday, November 28, 2011
Correlation does not equal causation. That’s something that most people who have graduated from high school have probably heard, something that law professors ought to know, something that graduate students should have a grasp of, something that even a former car salesman should be able to understand. And yet, lots of people have a [...]
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
“The greater part of mankind are naturally apt to be affirmative and dogmatical in their opinions; and while they see objects only on one side, and have no idea of any counterpoising argument, they throw themselves precipitately into the principles, to which they are inclined; nor have they any indulgence for those who entertain [...]
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Friday, November 11, 2011
I challenge anyone who would like to try, to explain the data on the availability of products derived from other animals from 1909 until 2009 in the US in a way that supports the idea that welfare reform has caused an increase the use of other animals. That data clearly shows that the percentage increase [...]
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
A list of Frequently Asked Questions commonly heard by many vegans. Please click on any question to view the response. A vegan is one who fully respects the lives and well-being of others. A vegan strives to avoid harming others and does everything possible to avoid using any living being as a resource or a [...]
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