What can animal rights people learn from queer activism politically Alex?
Alex: Queer activism has achieved a lot. Recently, just over a year ago, same gender marriages and adoption for same gender couples became legal in Spain. That was the result of years and years of working, of taking the message out to the streets and creating a social debate. So I think that is something animal rights activism can learn about queer activism. I think it is very important to make a social debate about animal rights. People need to see what’s happening and reflect on how their actions are affecting the animals. Abolitionist: Do you think we’ll ever see the day when a AIDS conference will be held looking at serious solutions to the AIDS crisis without using any form of animal experimentation? Alex: Hopefully we will. AIDS is a great problem today, but so it is vivisection. It is hard to think about an antivisector AIDS conference when a great deal on animal research is done on non humans. But with all the animal rights activism that is being done, chances are that someday
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