where science and ethics intersect with politics
The animals don’t know it’s World Vegan Day. While we celebrate progress with hashtags, recipes, and inspiring messages, billions of animals face another ordinary day of exploitation. This November 1, we’re looking beyond the celebration to remember who the movement is really for.
“Extreme” can describe a position, but it can also end a conversation before the argument begins. From abolition and suffrage to civil rights and animal advocacy, what society considers extreme has never been fixed.
Democrats’ recent attempt to brand their proposal as the “Abolition Amendment” obscures the term’s established meaning and appropriates language created by the Humane Party years earlier. While removing the 13th Amendment’s punishment clause is necessary, it is not abolition — not when the slavery of non-human beings remains fully intact. By co-opting a name that already denotes the complete end of slavery for all creatures, the proposal risks misleading the public and diluting a central pillar of the animal rights movement.
Jeb, a service dog in Michigan, was accused of killing a neighbor’s dog. DNA testing was used to prove his innocence. Without the DNA testing, Jeb would have been destroyed (i.e, killed) as a legally “dangerous animal.”
Abolition Amendment The Humane Party, a political party in the United States, has published the final, full draft of the … More
Summary: The Humane Party has published the fifth full draft of the Abolition Amendment, a proposed amendment to the United … More
________________ Reader Dear Humane Herald, What [animal rights activists] are doing is worthy of praise; I am often disturbed by … More
