The Internal Warfare of the Abolitionist Movement

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Ferris: Most people want to change things incrementally, whether that means banning Fuegge then Fueg or cage free. So either way, there's incremental steps. Ferris: To me, this theory I have is kind of like a symptom of a completely powerless movement. Like essentially, if you feel like the movement can't achieve anything serious, you're just kind of left to arguing about philosophy and theory.

David Coman-Hidy is former President of The Humane League, one of the largest farm animal advocacy organisations in the world. He now works as a Partner at Sharpen Strategy working to coach animal advocacy organisations.

In this episode, we discuss the age-old debate facing animal advocates: Should we pursue incremental approaches to improve welfare or should we only advocate for the total abolition of animal exploitation. Additionally, David also shares some approaches he would like to see more of within the animal advocacy movement, as well as what we could learn from other social movements.

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