Document Type
Editorial and Commentary
Publication Date
1983
Abstract
Just as economics has increasingly been employed as a political weapon, so religion is now being used to further self-serving goals. Agribusiness spokespersons not only use fallacious economic arguments to justify the "factory" farming of animals; they have also stated that any questioning about man's Godgiven right to exploit animals is atheistic, and perhaps an actual affront to God's will. Furthermore, taking an egalitarian attitude toward animals, and proposing that they have rights or should be given equal and fair consideration, is regarded as the inspiration of some covert communist conspiracy that is constantly working to restructure and thereby destroy U.S. agriculture.
Recommended Citation
Fox, M.W. (1983). The question of atheism and communism in the animal welfare/rights movement. International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems, 4(3), 171-173.
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Animal Studies Commons, Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, Other Anthropology Commons
