Where is the animal rights movement?
While these examples come from large organizations, they also reflect the mindsets of many animal people. For instance, this issue recently gained a great deal of attention when Erik Marcus, an individual who owns the vegan.com domain and has written several vegan-themed books, interviewed Jonathan Safran Foer. Foer’s book, Eating Animals, criticizes factory farming yet guides its readers to better ways to use animals. As I mentioned in a recent article, the site for the book even links to guides where readers can find local birds to have killed for them to eat. In the interview, the supposed vegan expert and Foer slammed vegans and again criticized moral consistency as “absolutist.” To these minds, those who criticize this destructive integration with animal use are “infighting,” “absolutists,” “purists,” and “fanatics.” What is going on here, where is our social movement?
