Animal rights actvists have learned that with less stridency comes more respect and influence in food politics. So they no longer concentrate their energy on burning effigies of Colonel Sanders and stealing chickens. They don't demonize meat -- with the exception of foie gras and veal -- or the people who produce it. Instead, they use softer rhetoric, focusing on a campaign even committed carnivores can get behind: better conditions for farm animals. But have they really changed their outlook or just their tactics? ( IHT)
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A Place at the Table for Farm Animals
Category: Food&Drink • Health
Posted on: July 25, 2007 1:23 PM, by EJGili
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It seems from the story they are admitting to simply changing tactics. Or are they? When they continue to say stuff like:
"I think there is a shift in public consciousness," said Bruce Friedrich, vice president of international grass-roots campaigns for PETA. "When Cameron Diaz learns that pigs are smarter than 3-year-olds and she's like, 'Oh my God, I'm eating my niece,' that has an impact."
-they contine to push themselves out of truely being effective. I'm 100% behind the much needed reforms for humane treatment of animals, but equating someone's three year old with a pig makes me want to send PETA a ham, a picture of my kids and a mp3 of "One of these things is not like the other". I'll resist, but I'm sure I'm not the only one with that juvenille urge. The point being, they really do need a new outlook
Posted by: Angrytoxicologist | July 25, 2007 12:46 PM
My guess is that that have not changed their outlook. Strict veganism is their legislative goal.
Posted by: Mike | July 25, 2007 02:09 PM