Oh boy, where to begin.
1. From what I’ve seen, vegan activists typically only do these types of rescues at places where there is extreme abuse going on. Not on some nice “happy farm.” (as if that even exists) And in many of those cases, laws are already being broken by the farmer, so one of the purposes of these rescues is to expose the abuse, to bring attention to what goes on behind closed doors, to the public.
2. In the first incident mentioned in this article, the farmer was clearly in the wrong. According to the reports I read on this incident when it first happened, the farmer was extremely aggressive and when the police came and asked the group to leave, they left peacefully. What happened was the farmer chased them down OUTSIDE of his property, on the highway, for an hour, and ended up shooting at one of the girls, the glass exploded and she could’ve been killed... AFTER they already left and were far from his property!
That’s a little different than shooting someone who is on your property and won’t leave, isn’t it?
I’m sure some of you will say that you don’t believe that, that there are always two sides of the story. Well one thing is for sure… If what the activists said about how it went down is true, then the farmer was clearly in the wrong, and not only that, he sounds like a psychopath.
3. Whether you agree with what they did or not, they are going by the principle that when there is injustice, bad laws need to be broken. Do you agree with that principle or not? Yes, it’s controversial, and no, I’m not saying that I agree with everything they do… But I do understand the concept of civil disobedience. Was Rosa Parks wrong for not giving up her seat to a white person? I mean, throughout history things don’t really change until bad laws are challenged.
4. Veganism is not a left-wing thing. It’s not left or right. It’s an ethical position. Don’t make it into a left right thing because that is not what this is about.