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How to write op-eds for animals
Even if you don’t consider yourself a writer, you have a lot of power to help nonhuman animals through the written word by drawing on your own insight, emotion, and personal experience. One important way to do this is through op-eds.
Op-eds are opinion columns submitted to a newspaper or other publication that allow you to share your perspective on an issue of importance with that publication’s aud
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“Some animal rights activists are demanding vegetarianism, even veganism now, or nothing. But since only 4 or 5 percent of Americans claim to be vegetarians, 'nothing' is the far more likely outcome. I ask these activists to weigh the horrors of Bladen County's industrial farms and the Tar Heel slaughterhouse against the consequences of doing nothing to alleviate the hour-to-hour sufferings of its victims. Is not a life lived off the factory farm and a death humanely inflicted superior to the terrible lives we know they lead and the horrible deaths we know they suffer in Bladen County today?”
― An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River
― An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River
“The historian William Cronon explains that packing plants
'distanced their customers most of all from the act of killing.... The more people became accustomed to the attractively cut, carefully wrapped, cunningly displayed packages that Swift had introduced to the trade, the more easily they could fail to remember that their purchase had once pulsed and breathed with a life much like their own.... As time went on, fewer of those who ate meat could say they had actually killed the animals themselves. In the packer's world, it was easy not to remember that eating meat was a moral act inextricably bound to killing. Such was the second nature that a corporate order had imposed on the American landscape. Forgetfulness was among the least noticed and most important of its by-products.”
― An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River
'distanced their customers most of all from the act of killing.... The more people became accustomed to the attractively cut, carefully wrapped, cunningly displayed packages that Swift had introduced to the trade, the more easily they could fail to remember that their purchase had once pulsed and breathed with a life much like their own.... As time went on, fewer of those who ate meat could say they had actually killed the animals themselves. In the packer's world, it was easy not to remember that eating meat was a moral act inextricably bound to killing. Such was the second nature that a corporate order had imposed on the American landscape. Forgetfulness was among the least noticed and most important of its by-products.”
― An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River
“Between 6 and 8 percent of pigs die before they are trucked from the factory farm to slaughter. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about 123 million pigs were slaughtered in 2006. That means 7 to 10 million died on their own before we could kill them.”
― An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River
― An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River
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