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My friend Lynne sent me a great article from Thomas Paine's Corner. The article, Can We Shed Our Moral Primitivism Before It Is Too Late is an interview conducted by Anneka Svenska with Philosophy Professor and Animal Liberation Theorist Steve Best. Best situates animal liberation struggle alongside a number of other struggles--abolition, Palestinian Liberation, Earth Liberation, and anti-Nazi movements.

At first I was put off by Best's comparisons between animal and human slavery, his tactical evocations of Martin Luther King Jr, Anti-Nazi liberation movements, The African National Congress' struggle against apartheid, and his assertion: "Realizing that animals suffered far more than human beings in the quantity and quality of their pain, suffering, and death, I shifted from human rights to animal rights activism."