Why do animal advocates spend comparatively little time intervening for free-living animals interests in simple freedom?
… If campaigners are too busy to supply thoughtful answers, chances are they’re busy negotiating concessions with industries. Agreements with corporations can effectively promote both the industries that use animals and those that advocate for welfare improvements. Hence, many an animal advocacy group spends the better part of its time focused on dreary details about the use of antibiotics, the numbers of animals in a cage, the dimensions of a shed, an animal’s age at the time of slaughter, or whether an animal is properly stunned before dying. An eerie aspect of the bulk of today’s animal advocacy — and it grows bulkier each year — is that it’s primarily concerned about how to treat animals once they’re already under our collective thumb. A plain-speaking movement Environmentalists warn that the chemicals and sicknesses which plague animal factories can also contaminate soil, water, animal products, and our own bodies. These concerns about factory farms are warranted. But ecologic
