Has anyone done research into right-wing-coded animal welfare advocacy?
As others have pointed out, right wingers are an under-addressed demographic in animal welfare advocacy.
Increasing the political balance of animal welfare supporters would help to de-politicize the issue.
Some miscellaneous ideas, with low epistemic confidence:
Messaging about going back to our “natural” agricultural roots. Fattening up billions of genetically modified animals who live in shit and disease before killing them isn’t very “natural”. For thousands of years, meat consumption was far lower than it is now.
Connecting opposition to abortion to animal welfare. If people oppose killing a fetus or embryo, how can they support killing a fully grown pig? (This was actually the train of thought which originally convinced me to go vegan.)
Messaging like “BE A MAN AND EAT STEAK! RED MEAT! MAN!”, which should reduce animal suffering on balance (by replacing suffering chickens with much fewer suffering cows).
Has anyone done research into right-wing-coded animal welfare advocacy?
As others have pointed out, right wingers are an under-addressed demographic in animal welfare advocacy.
Increasing the political balance of animal welfare supporters would help to de-politicize the issue.
Some miscellaneous ideas, with low epistemic confidence:
Messaging about going back to our “natural” agricultural roots. Fattening up billions of genetically modified animals who live in shit and disease before killing them isn’t very “natural”. For thousands of years, meat consumption was far lower than it is now.
Connecting opposition to abortion to animal welfare. If people oppose killing a fetus or embryo, how can they support killing a fully grown pig? (This was actually the train of thought which originally convinced me to go vegan.)
Messaging like “BE A MAN AND EAT STEAK! RED MEAT! MAN!”, which should reduce animal suffering on balance (by replacing suffering chickens with much fewer suffering cows).
Anyone else have any ideas?