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

How I Learned to Love Shrimp

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The Importance of Local Groups in the Democratic Party

In the UK, they have these like animal welfare policy briefs. And in the US, we don't even exist as an issue for the Democratic Party let alone the Republicans. So I think like a realistic achievable goal could be like, how could we have a plank in these parties or at least in the Democratic Party of their position on some basic stuff? We've banned confinement in over 10 states now,. Like this seems like achievable. What about like testing cosmetics on animals or, you know, fur? There's probably some stretch stuff we could do. It's just like, why, you know to start organizing around this kind of stuff?"

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