In a nutshell, there are three schools of thought among animal activists: The Animal Protectionist View: Animals are going to be enslaved, brutalized and murdered into the foreseeable future. We owe than them all we can do to alleviate as much suffering as we can. This view encompasses the overwhelming majority of the animal movement.…
Humans view the world through the lens of species superiority. According to this worldview, no animal’s life is worth a human’s. Nor are multiple animals’ lives worth a single human life. Logically, there must be some ceiling on the concept, some point at which an animal population is worth more than a human life. But…
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals kills animals. Tens of thousands of them. By their own admissions. PETA is not an animal rights organization, nor are they an animal protection organization. PETA is an anti-animal suffering organization. Ingrid Newkirk, who runs the operation, believes that eliminating the possibility of animal suffering is more important…
Armory of the Revolution grew out of my Facebook Notes. I published 500 Notes on my profile prior to launching the Armory blog. This is the 500th blog post on the Armory, my 1,000th post! Near as a I can determine, the Armory is one of the most prolific animal rights blogs online, and ranks…
Fifty years ago I was in college, fighting against the war in Viet Nam. How I wish I had been fighting against the Animal Holocaust instead of, or in addition to, the war. I was running draft resisters to Canada, marching in the streets, getting beaten up by the LAPD. Back then, I had no…
In the past 40 years I have witnessed the leadership of the Animal Rights movement turn gray. Most animal organizations are run by people in their 50s and 60s. Most of us who were involved in the movement’s infancy were too busy rescuing and organizing to grasp the fact that Animal Rights is a philosophical…
How blind can we be? The enemy of animals is the status quo. The existing paradigm. The way things are. The world’s religions. The world’s governments. The world’s legal systems. Capitalism. Each feeds on the others, shores up and justifies the others, each is a prison bar for the animals trapped in the world’s food…
There are legitimate reasons to preach to the choir, a euphemism for giving speeches or posting articles to those who already agree with us. In many cases the information is new, or is better explained, or is offered to be repeated to others, or may be inspirational or tactical. But all too often, we are…
We call ourselves the Animal Rights Movement, but we are in reality the Animal Welfare Movement. Animal Rights posits the declaration and enforcement of the rights of animals not to be owned, exploited, abused or murdered. Only governments can recognize legal rights, and the likelihood that ours or another government might do so in the…
If you are an animal activist, the animals are your first priority. I know they are mine. Every animal we help is important, every life we save is precious. But the most important thing we can do for the animals is to ensure that the animal movement continues into the future. That means recruiting, training,…
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