AVMA Almost Pretends to Sort of Support Best Interests of Animals

by Stephanie Ernst · 2008-12-09 13:54:00 UTC
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The American Veterinary Medical Association supports a Universal Declaration of Animal Welfare--kind of, anyway. I mean, the AVMA supports such a declaration as long as we all understand that the AVMA supports the declaration only in concept. And as long as the AVMA is on the spot about it, having been asked directly by someone important to say the AVMA supports it. And as long as the declaration is not at all "concerned with attributing legal rights to animals." And as long as it's not, you know, binding or anything. That "binding" thing and the possibility of (gasp!) pesky legal rights for animals--those could have been problematic for the AVMA. But this way, no one is really asking or expecting the AVMA to get out of the big, cozy bed it shares with animal-exploiting industries. So the conditions are acceptable for quietly expressing rhetorical concern for the well-being of animals. At least in concept.

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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