Anti-Factory Farming Is Not Quite a Plan: Creating a Big Tent | Rising Anxieties

About this episode

Mariann Sullivan discusses the challenges of anti-factory farming as a movement strategy and the need for a concrete plan to replace it.

The animal rights movement has found its big tent: everyone hates factory farming, right? In this solo rant, Mariann Sullivan ponders “anti-factory farming” as a unifying movement strategy — specifically, the inconvenient fact that being against something isn’t the same as having a plan to replace it. She also takes on a growing narrative that out-and-proud veganism is somehow the movement’s…

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Host: Mariann Sullivan

Topics covered

• animal rights
• factory farming
• veganism
• movement strategy
• activism

Keywords

• anti-factory farming
• animal rights movement
• veganism
• activism
• movement strategy

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