What Can British Anti-Slavery Teach Us About Animal Advocacy?
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June 2018

A unique study focuses on lessons that animal advocates can learn from the British Anti-slavery Movement, to help make their own efforts to end animal farming as effective as possible.

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Many animal advocates make comparisons with previous social movements in order to illustrate both their moral arguments and their ideas about how to make the movement’s efforts effective. Nevertheless, such comparisons have often been done in a relatively shallow and unreflective manner, making this thorough and careful analysis by Sentience Institute all the more necessary. This paper focuses on lessons that animal advocates can learn from the British anti-slavery Movement to make their own efforts to end animal farming as effective as possible.

If you haven’t thought about the slavery analogy in much depth before, reading the “condensed chronological history” may help advocates reflect on points of comparison and gain new strategic insights. Here, the author presents some of the key events of the British anti-slavery movement in a chronological narrative, to enable advocates in differing local situations to draw their own conclusions.

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