Hi Benton, you rock! I’m trying to help out with the Arkansas efforts—do you have any ideas on how we could spread the message more widely? Oh and please share with friends/​family if you can :)
Outside of Little Rock and northwest Arkansas, I doubt you’ll find much sympathy for animal welfare. It may be more helpful to frame this as an issue of big industrial farms versus small family farms and states’ rights. I suspect more people here would be open to that kind of message instead of the animal welfare message.
As for how to spread that message, I’m not entirely sure. This is kinda my first time doing anything activist-like, so I don’t have any experience to draw on. But my guess is trying to find associations of farmers and arguing that the SOB Act would hurt them. Also, I checked the University of Arkansas’ extracurricular clubs page and found that there is an Animal Legal Defense Fund group, so maybe they could help some. It looks like there is a vegan group in northwest Arkansas that may also be interested.
Thank you for sharing. I currently live in rural Arkansas, so I plan on calling Senator Boozman’s office as soon as I can.
Hi Benton, you rock! I’m trying to help out with the Arkansas efforts—do you have any ideas on how we could spread the message more widely? Oh and please share with friends/​family if you can :)
Outside of Little Rock and northwest Arkansas, I doubt you’ll find much sympathy for animal welfare. It may be more helpful to frame this as an issue of big industrial farms versus small family farms and states’ rights. I suspect more people here would be open to that kind of message instead of the animal welfare message.
As for how to spread that message, I’m not entirely sure. This is kinda my first time doing anything activist-like, so I don’t have any experience to draw on. But my guess is trying to find associations of farmers and arguing that the SOB Act would hurt them. Also, I checked the University of Arkansas’ extracurricular clubs page and found that there is an Animal Legal Defense Fund group, so maybe they could help some. It looks like there is a vegan group in northwest Arkansas that may also be interested.
Animal Legal Defense Fund: https://​​hogsync.uark.edu/​​club_signup?group_type=&search=animal&category_tags=&order=name_asc
Northwest Arkansas Vegan Group: https://​​www.meetup.com/​​northwestarkansasvegansgroup/​​?recSource=chapter-search&recId=7e616018-673f-4f98-9099-d28f0f7fd64f&searchId=1578577e-708f-46dc-a687-94d2dcfd065f&eventOrigin=find_page
Amazing! Arkansas is so important.