Voting for a Compassionate Future with David Michelson

About this episode

The episode discusses the vision of a nonviolent future for animals and the potential impact of the PEACE Act on voting for animal rights.

Vegans are visionaries. We hold a vision of a nonviolent future where all animals are free from human imposed commodification, suffering, and killing. What if this vision was on the ballot and we could vote on it? That could be happing soon with the Oregon Initiative Petition 28 — officially titled the PEACE Act, People for Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions. This ballot initiative would eliminate the legal exemptions that currently protect hunting, fishing, trapping, and farming from O...

People in this episode

Host: Hope Bohanec

Guest: David Michelson

Topics covered

• animal rights
• voting
• compassion
• nonviolence
• activism

Keywords

• animal rights
• voting
• compassionate future
• Oregon Initiative
• PEACE Act

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oregon Initiative Petition 28, PEACE Act, People for Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions

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