[Marxism] Human and Animal Liberation Alliance Politics

[Jay Andrew Allen]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Debordagoria <phantasmagorias at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Philosophy professor Steven Best is a socialist and an animal liberation
> theorist and activist.
> Michael D.
>

Thanks for forwarding this. As a vegan, it's something I've been bandying
about for a while. I'm against - in any way, shape or form - putting animal
liberation/rights above helping human beings take back their rights and lift
themselves out of misery. It makes sense to promote vegetarianism and
infrequent meat-eating by the standards of health, environmental
degradation, and sheer common sense. (It takes between 8 and 16 pounds of
grain to "manufacture" one pound of beef, which is a thoughtless waste of
food.) But those are "speciesist" standards, not animal-liberation
standards.

-J-

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