Rejecting Fatalism: Social Justice Movements Change The World
Some people say that animal exploitation can never end, because speciesism is simply too vast and too ingrained to ever change. I don’t subscribe to fatalism. After all, if we all did then no injustice would ever be challenged and nothing would ever change. Nobody is claiming that the world will “go vegan overnight”, but a shift in consciousness is gradually happening. The 2012 Olympics marks the first ever games where the teams of all participating countries include women. This is huge. In some cultures around the world, women are still regarded as second class citizens or lower beings. Things to be used by men as they see fit. They are dominated and owned like property (just as animals still are in our culture). All manner of injustice occurs. Women there do not have the same rights as men and are the victims of extreme violence. They are subject to rape, torture, mutilation, beatings and murder-a lot of which is perfectly legal. It is so vast, so extreme, such an ingrain...