ARCO's Abolitionists - A Vegan Forum

[panthera]

Hi, this is just to tell you that ARCO's Abolitionist is becoming more lively these days. Excerpts:

Should we, without losing sight of the abolitionist approach, add some more emotional/sentimental arguments in order to reach more people?

The Use of the Abolitionist Forum

The problem of critiquing welfarist arguments is that there are so few of them. There are welfarist slogans, such as "you're utopian and divisive" and welfarist laws are supposedly "incremental" etc. But welfarist arguments? Are you suggesting we examine the writing of Erik Marcus, Norm Phelps, Vegan Outreach and -- get ready -- Steven Wise and David Stzybel ? Should we write rebuttals of these authors and then summarize our rebuttals into simple statements that the public can easily understand? I ask this in all seriousness.

It is astonishing how empathy for other humans can initiate the process of effective communication about the plight of nonhuman beings. For me, empathy is the basis for compassion - and this is the context in which I speak about animal rights.

Coretta [Scott King] became vegan in 1995, although some dingbats report her as being a "vegetarian" or "a very strict vegetarian". From people who knew her personally, they stated she was a "strict vegan", and "not just a vegetarian".

We also have the lyrics to two Conflict songs: "Tough Shit Mickey" and "Meat Means Murder"

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