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Cargando... Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terrorpor Lee Hall
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This book⿿s unusual title recalls a six-year campaign to end the breeding of guinea pigs at an English farm; the cover depicts the churchyard where the body of the guinea pig farmer's mother-in-law was stolen during a pressure campaign. Lee Hall takes militancy as a starting point to assess a movement that is alternately coercive or co-opted (through organizations that tout humane farming advancements). Either way, the root problem is sidestepped: Militancy doesn⿿t address demand, and handling reform doesn⿿t slow the expansion of agribusiness that displaces nature (witness wild horses being rounded up and removed from land desired by ranchers). Rather than focusing on pain -- a key survival mechanism that industrialists would gladly breed out of animals -- this book presses the question of whether animals should be used at all. In the process, various advocacy styles are assessed for their impact on society, activists themselves, and the law. Psychologist Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson offers a foreword commending Hall for advancing animal-rights thinking, insisting that effective advocacy does not force change, but shifts the mental ground people stand on, inspires epiphany, and moves things closer to how they ought to be. The book's call -- despite, as reviewer Eric Prescott writes, the difficulty some may have in heeding it -- could focus a scattered and divided population of advocates to effectively drive a vital mission for the future of Earth⿿s conscious life. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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In this thin volume, Hall explores what the philosophy of animal rights was, is, and could potentially be. In Hall's view, the modern animal rights movement is actually an animal welfare movement in masquerade. For instance, the term `humane slaughter' is just as ironic as the idea that thousands of animals can be freed from cages each year only to be replaced by more animals in those very cages.
In a nutshell, Hall writes that "the guiding principle here isn't to help [animals], but to aspire not to interfere." If animals were not interfered with in the first place, they would not be subject to exploitation. The most basic step one can take to stop interfering with animals is to stop consuming animal products. The cessation of other interferences will soon follow. Essentially, Hall's vision is for the animal rights movement to become "the most comprehensive peace movement ever known."
One of the most striking points in the book is the idea that graphic images of animal exploitation serve to promote animal welfare not animal rights. The fact is we shouldn't need these graphic images to tell us all the horrors of animal use. All we need to know is that animals are being used against their will. And that is wrong.
Overall, of course, Hall denounces violence (unto other animals, unto other humans, unto ourselves, and unto the environment we all share). I fell right into stride with Hall on this idea. For those of us who don't feel we fit in with the passiveness of animal welfarists nor the violence of other activists, and who strictly oppose the exploitation of other beings, we have a comrade in Lee Hall.
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