ARCO's Abolitionists - A Vegan Forum

It is become a new trend to describe oneself as a vegan abolitionist. But what does this really mean?
Does anyone have a closing definition for it?
It sounds catchy but what content does it have?

Huh, I don't know. I suppose it's a person who is vegan and wants animals to be considered persons, not things.

A lot of it is defined by what it rejects, though. Vegans all want the abolition of animal use, but some of them think we should use welfare measures to further our cause. That's blasphemy to abolitionists!

Though liberationists would be much against it

A vegan abolitionist is a vegan who wants to (1) abolish the property status and exploitation of nonhuman animals (2) advocates no compromises [i.e. "welfarism"] working toward this goal.

Vegan abolitionists generally support rights theory to recognize moral rights with accompanying enforceable legal rights, but a non-rights liberationist ethic [i.e. anti-oppression] is also consistent with vegan abolitionism.

Brandon Becker wrote:Vegan abolitionists generally support rights theory to recognize moral rights with accompanying enforceable legal rights, but a non-rights liberationist ethic [i.e. anti-oppression] is also consistent with vegan abolitionism.

According to the will theory (in the theory of law), children and metally disabled can't have rights, and neither could animals. All these categories would enjoy protection by the penal law and other laws, which, according to the same theory, also don't deal with rights.

According to the interest theory, which is coherent with human and animal rights in as much as it acknowledges that basic human rights (as protected by laws) are indeed rights, humans' and animals' interests get protection once the state recognizes those interests and decides to protect them.

Both the will and the interest theory allow that protection or rights be given to animals, too.