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Norm Phelps: One Track Activism « Tim Gier Norm Phelps: One Track Activism « tim gier About me Contact me RSS Subscribe: RSS feed tim gier chasing after the wind Norm Phelps: One Track Activism Posted on August 8, 2010 by timgier 14 Truth-seeking atheist abolitionist vegan who is opposed to all violence. I like to blog about Animal Rights, Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is Science, Philosophy, Politics, LGBT, production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be Technology, Business & other random concerns forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. -Thomas A. Edison Norm Phelps takes abolitionists to task in a piece that more than one person has suggested I read. In it Search this blog he argues that it’s unfair of the abolitionists to say that regulatory reforms of current exploitative systems are part of the problem and not part of the solution. Since I say that quite a bit myself, I think reform campaigns are misguided, I thought I’d take the time to examine Phelps’ criticisms. Phelps begins his piece by describing the difference between abolitionists and new-welfarists and then he objects to the use of the latter term: More “But to pin the “welfarist” label on activists who believe that “animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use in entertainment,” but who also About me support campaigns to ease the suffering of animals is misleading, divisive, and destructive. It is like calling progressive Democrats “communists” or Contact me conservative Republicans “fascists” as a way of excluding them from the political dialogue. And because it divides and weakens the movement that is the only hope animals have, it is the animals themselves who suffer the painful and lethal consequences.” Follow me… Well, not quite. It is like calling Democrats “corporatists” because the Democratic Party is supposed to be the champion of the disaffected and not in the back pockets of Wall Street. Or it’s like calling Republicans “statist big spenders” because the GOP is supposed to be all about limited government and fiscal restraint. The truth of the label is that it highlights the difference between what a group or organization presents itself to the world as compared to what it actually does or has the effect of doing. Calling animals advocates “welfarists” when their actions and words have the effect of perpetuating the status quo of exploitation can only be misleading, divisive and destructive if it is not accurate. Phelps goes on to say: Archives I’m sure that everyone taking part in this discussion can agree that the August 2010 (9) abolition of all animal exploitation is the only morally acceptable basis for July 2010 (37) our relationship to nonhuman animals and that abolition is the only legitimate, long-term goal for animal rights advocates. And I think we can June 2010 (35) also agree that vegan advocacy is the core of a strategy for achieving that May 2010 (20) goal. April 2010 (16) March 2010 (19) It is somewhat ironic that Phelps’ piece is posted at “Vegan” Outreach, which advocates neither for February 2010 (28) abolition nor veganism. So everyone taking part in the discussion does not agree, which is why there is a problem. January 2010 (32) Phelps goes on to explain the “five excellent reasons for animal rights advocates to reject the arguments http://timgier.com/2010/08/08/norm-phelps-one-track-activism/[8/9/10 5:48:24 PM] Norm Phelps: One Track Activism « tim gier of the one-track activists and simultaneously pursue both abolition and reform—or at the very least, not oppose reformist efforts.” Let’s take a look at each. Top Posts First, Phelps writes: Norm Phelps: One Track Activism The critical point here is that most people are extremely resistant to moral Is HumaneMyth.org Really All That Bad? criticism of things that they are personally doing. They simply reject it out of hand and refuse to consider it. They have to be led up to it gradually, one Waiting on the World to Change step at a time. Sometimes Satan Comes As a Man of Peace So, the argument goes, people are resistant to change, and only by slowly and gradually exposing them to A Vegan World in 8 Years the facts surrounding the horrors of the exploitations of nonhumans can we hope to help them see the light. Intuitively, that sounds right. But it’s wrong. As this recent article points out, people know that what they are doing to nonhumans is wrong. They just don’t care. Anyone who wants to know anything at all about the horrors of factory farming and other forms of animal exploitation has plenty of learning The Last 5 Posts material to choose from. If 30 plus years of books, magazine articles, movies and TV shows documenting the actual violence against nonhumans hasn’t led people up to veganism gradually yet, I don’t see why we Waiting on the World to Change should expect campaigns for bigger cages to that job. Norm Phelps: One Track Activism Phelps uses the example of the campaigns to ban gestation crates in Florida and Arizona and makes Is HumaneMyth.org Really All much of the anecdote that people who worked in those campaigns became vegan. It should be obvious That Bad? that people who would take the time to work in such campaigns would be predisposed to accept the Dog Killer Cop principles of animal rights. One wouldn’t expect racists to work in a civil rights campaign, why would Sometimes Satan Comes As a Man anyone be surprised to find people sympathetic to animal rights involved in an animal welfare campaign, of Peace especially when that campaign is marketed as one interested in animal rights? Second, Phelps talks about how reforms drive up the cost of doing business for animal exploiters. He says this: Vegan Blogs Another effect of reform campaigns is that they typically drive up the cost Abolition of Speciesism of animal products, which the animal agriculture industry sees as a potentially serious threat to its viability. Abolitionist Animal Rights Abolitionist Approach Of course, he’s wrong. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) itself in its report “The Just Your Average Vegan Teen Economics of Adopting Alternative Production Systems to Gestation Crates” explains how eliminating Little Vegan Steps gestation crates for sows actually lowers production costs and increases productivity. As another example, the “Certified Humane” website of the group Humane Farm Animal Care says this to animal exploiters LOBSA.org “Making Certified Humane Work For You. How Becoming Certified Humane Will Increase Your Sales My Face is on Fire and Improve Your Bottom Line.” Can there be any doubt that the exploiters of nonhumans are getting On Human-Nonhuman Relations into the “humane” slaughter and “free-range” business because it will help them maintain or increase their market share, revenues and profits? Can there be any doubt when the so-called animal welfare Quotes on Slavery groups are working hand-in-hand with these exploiters to accomplish those very things? Unpopular Vegan Essays Vegan Abolitionist Phelps touts the animal exploiters statements about the economic impacts of welfare reforms on their bottom lines as evidence that these reforms are effective, as if the exploiters would not use hyperbole Vegan Freak and exaggeration in a PR campaign to make themselves look like victims. Indeed, as Gary Francione Veganacious points out, it is in the best interests of these exploiters to loudly and vigorously fight against even the most innocuous proposed reforms. They must oppose everything lest they be seen to accept the premise We Other Animals of any reform, which is that there is even something wrong with what they are doing in the first place. Third, Phelps says that “Suffering Matters.” No kidding, suffering does matter. But he goes on to say: Vegan Food Blogs I cannot reconcile myself to the idea that it is acceptable to leave billions of helpless animals in this kind of hell for the sake of a utopia that neither Full Irish Vegan these animals nor their children nor their grandchildren nor their Gone Pie Vegan Bakery descendents for many generations will live to see. I Eat Trees Manifest: Vegan The implication is that abolitionists can and do reconcile themselves to such an idea. What monsters abolitionists must be, to leave billions to suffer while pursuing their utopian dream. But wait, wasn’t it The Expanding Circle Phelps himself who earlier decried “misleading, divisive and destructive” rhetoric? How soon people Vegan for the People http://timgier.com/2010/08/08/norm-phelps-one-track-activism/[8/9/10 5:48:24 PM] Norm Phelps: One Track Activism « tim gier forget. Vegan Good Eats The point is, the reduction in suffering afforded to chickens who are given “free-range” does infinitely VeganDad more to ease the consciences of the chicken eating public that it does to make any meaningful difference VeganImprov in the lives of chickens. The changing over from one form of exploitation to another doesn’t change anything appreciably in the lives of confined and ill-fated beings, it just changes the terms of their confinement. Worse than that, these reforms do two other things. First they allow the public to have a false sense of Vegan Podcasts/Videos accomplishment. For instance, the recent compromise reached in Ohio between HSUS and animal exploiters has been heavily publicized as a victory in the cause of animal rights. Common sense tells us LiveVegan that when victory has been achieved, we can move on to other things.
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