Animal Agriculture, Wet Markets, and COVID-19: a Case Study in Indirect Activism.

ABSTRACT: There were excellent reasons to reform intensive animal agriculture prior to COVID-19. Unfortunately, though, intensive animal agriculture has grown rapidly over the last century. All signs indicate that it will continue to grow in the future. This is bad news for billions of animals. It's also bad news for those who want an animal-friendly food system. Because the public isn't very concerned about the plight of animals-or is concerned, but has a high tolerance for cognitive dissonance-animal activists regularly engage in indirect activism. Indirect activism involves arguing that some cause that's indirectly related to the activist's primary agenda provides reasons to act in ways that are congruent with that agenda. In this paper, we consider the two indirect arguments that animal a

SUBMITTER: Spiehler A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8123922 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature