Is Friends of Animals currently working on campaigns focused on lab and farm animals?
We do educational projects addressing vivisection, cloning, and genetic modification. We’ve collaborated with Primates for Primates in Australia, bringing animal rights advocacy directly into initiatives designed to prevent proposed cloning research entirely. Note, though, that the spread of veganism is important if we’re going to get a critical mass to renounce vivisection. In fact, without animal agribusiness, we wouldn’t have a lot of today’s scientific absurdities. The first cloned cat was introduced at the Texas Agriculture Experiment Station. FoA generally focuses mostly on wild animals rather than on those in captivity, why is that? We know that animal rights won’t be found on the farm. Commodified animals will always be rightless. That’s what it means to be property. So an animal rights movement isn’t advanced by combining and confusing vegan education with campaigns that negotiate with animal agribusiness. We could all become experts on animal farming, but veganism is about op
