That's great! Bruce Friedrich gave a talk at Stanford last year. Unlike much of PETA, he only says really reasonable stuff. The lopsidedness of this debate amuses me: a professional animal rights activist who also has true statements on his side versus some guy who has probably thought about this issue very little.
Yeah my brother thinks it is super hilarious and doesn't really know how they got this guy to come. I guess there is some PETA rep on campus that brought him in or something.
I also saw Bruce Friedrich speak a few years ago and he gave an outstanding presentation! Whether or not you're a *fan* of PETA, I think that most animal rights activists would be interested in some of the topics he specializes in - especially his view of Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) and animal welfare/rights, especially concerning issues/examples of animals as food found in the bible.
I would ask him why he is on the board of FarmForward- how he can at all justify aiding animal slaughter as a vegan.
I would also ask him if he would agree that if cities had to face the consequences of pet overpopulation, instead of having PeTA take it off their hands with their euthanasia "services", that they would be much more likely to enact laws/regulations that would make an impact on pet overpopulation. I say this because the county I come from has recently done this because they were forced to deal with pet overpopulation; over the past two years, there's been a decrease in the pets euthanized each year, and the pets shelters take in, because the county has spayed and neutered more animals, etc. If an outside org like PeTA had just come in and killed animals for them, they wouldn't have had to face the costs and actually *do* something about overpopulation.
I suppose I would inquire one to one about his own take (Ms. Newkirk, at least, seemed quite unsympathetic from what I understand) regarding popular criticisms leveled at PeTA by other animal advocates, such as that of the many other anti-oppression activists that many of PeTA's campaigns are sexist, racist, fat-phobic, transphobic, homophobic, anti-semitic, imperialist, ableist, [sorry to be discursive, but I didn't want to list one or two and exclude others] or otherwise traffic in oppression and privilege; I would ask whether he does have some similar qualms and understand where this criticism is coming from and if so how he might plan lobby in his organization to perhaps alter the direction of or dial down the offensiveness of these campaigns. I would ask him how he feels about PeTA's (at least as an organization) general non-support of no-kill shelters and (their related actions) and their repudiation of the views Nathan Winograd and other advocates of no-kill shelters, along with objections by some animal rights advocates that
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Oh, thank you. When I Googled some sources listed him as co-director--that was a big mea culpa on my account; I should have searched the Vegan Outreach website before trusting secondary sources :/
After seeing press release for the book that featured praise by Ingrid Newkirk, I admit I totally jumped to conclusions and decided to blow off even considering reading the book until I had at least gone through my queue of other animal rights books. You make me want to take a second glance at it, check out its reviews on Amazon--thank you for the heads up.
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I would also ask him if he would agree that if cities had to face the consequences of pet overpopulation, instead of having PeTA take it off their hands with their euthanasia "services", that they would be much more likely to enact laws/regulations that would make an impact on pet overpopulation.
I say this because the county I come from has recently done this because they were forced to deal with pet overpopulation; over the past two years, there's been a decrease in the pets euthanized each year, and the pets shelters take in, because the county has spayed and neutered more animals, etc. If an outside org like PeTA had just come in and killed animals for them, they wouldn't have had to face the costs and actually *do* something about overpopulation.
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After seeing press release for the book that featured praise by Ingrid Newkirk, I admit I totally jumped to conclusions and decided to blow off even considering reading the book until I had at least gone through my queue of other animal rights books. You make me want to take a second glance at it, check out its reviews on Amazon--thank you for the heads up.
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