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…
People in this episode
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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