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David Coman-Hidy on welfare vs abolitionism and promising strategies to help animals

How I Learned to Love Shrimp

CHAPTER

The Disagreement of Animal Advocates About Veganism

In general, I'm very skeptical and pretty negative about veganism as an idea and principle to found the movement on. It's essentially built around this concept of personal purity that adds this kind of like fundamentalist religious element to this like foundational piece of the identity which is quite unhelpful. There's just something missing to me where so many people are sympathetic with our cause but would never get on board because of veganism. This is a real challenge. And I think like we're just leaving so much power on the table by having this small tent.

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