In the U.S. (and perhaps other countries) I expect there is an unrealized opportunity for animal welfare advocates to collaborate with libertarian organizations like Cato and R Street. There could be a productive “strange bedfellows” alliance in the fight against socially and ethically damaging subsidies—for both meat and feed stocks—that enable domestic meat industries to thrive rather than retract.
To quote the R Street link below: “For too long, American agriculture has been overly dependent on domestic subsidies… American farmers and ranchers want the chance to sell their products, not have to wait for a government handout.”
As an aside...(re conservatives, not libertarians) here is Ben Shapiro saying to Jonathan Safran Foer that he thinks that in 100 years people will look back on eating animals as a bad thing − 33 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GU-yTOYQl4
Thanks for sharing! That is an incongruous pair—but I wouldn’t be surprised if the number of vocal conservative vegetarians grows over the coming years as the cost of coming out as a vegetarian or vegan loses its stigma in some corners of the conservative movement(s) In OECD countries, and the need for preference falsification erodes.
In the U.S. (and perhaps other countries) I expect there is an unrealized opportunity for animal welfare advocates to collaborate with libertarian organizations like Cato and R Street. There could be a productive “strange bedfellows” alliance in the fight against socially and ethically damaging subsidies—for both meat and feed stocks—that enable domestic meat industries to thrive rather than retract.
To quote the R Street link below: “For too long, American agriculture has been overly dependent on domestic subsidies… American farmers and ranchers want the chance to sell their products, not have to wait for a government handout.”
https://www.rstreet.org/2018/04/18/farmers-dont-need-subsidies-they-need-free-trade/
https://reason.com/2018/09/26/proposition-libertarians-shoul1/
As an aside...(re conservatives, not libertarians) here is Ben Shapiro saying to Jonathan Safran Foer that he thinks that in 100 years people will look back on eating animals as a bad thing − 33 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GU-yTOYQl4
Thanks for sharing! That is an incongruous pair—but I wouldn’t be surprised if the number of vocal conservative vegetarians grows over the coming years as the cost of coming out as a vegetarian or vegan loses its stigma in some corners of the conservative movement(s) In OECD countries, and the need for preference falsification erodes.