Paths to Animal Liberation - Fri. 7:15pm
How to pursue animal liberation? welfare vs abolition? what about "violence?"

Presenter: Brown, Hankins, Hershaft, Marcus, May, Pease

Harold Brown
Farm Sanctuary , www.farmsanctuary.org

Paths to Animal Liberation

• What are the consequences of our words and actions on behalf of the animals and the movement at large? 
• The animal rights movement doesn’t exist and operate in a vacuum and is constantly being engaged by the animal user industry to “manage” activism. 
• Is animal welfare something that can be spoken of in the same breath as animal rights? 
• Does legislation foster public education of animal rights? 
• What are the karmic consequences of direct action? 

This is the great dialogue that many in the animal movement are engaged in and we will discuss it to try to make sense of the many ideas, strategies, opinions, and beliefs that for our perception of the best path towards animal rights.

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Erik Marcus
Author, Meat Market