Kelefa Sanneh covers the development of the animal rights movement, its advocates and its philosophies. This review offers insights about major influencers and the results of their advocacies. It’s not an easy read but well-researched and worth studying by animal health pros. We selected a few statements from the article for your review:
- Debates about animals tend to be less about how to treat them and more about how much we should care when they are mistreated.
- The movement against cruelty to animals is broadly popular, at least in theory—lots of people are bothered by the way livestock live and die, although not bothered enough to stop eating them.
- Speciesism is easier to renounce than it is to abandon, because most of us share a sense that human beings have rights and responsibilities that set us apart.
Source: The New Yorker, April 29, 2024. Link.
People who think seriously about the use and abuse of nonhuman creatures often end up calling for changes that might seem indefensible—at least, at first.”