Legality does not equal morality. Just because something is lawfully correct, that doesn’t make it morally sound. Slavery was once legal, and rescuing those slaves was illegal, and people were persecuted for running the underground railroad. And yet today, we look back on the acts of those brave souls with admiration. The victims are different here, animals, not humans, but Zoe is no different than those brave activists of long ago. She sought to rescue persecuted and enslaved innocent sentient beings just like them.
The person who wrote this article clearly eats chickens and doesn’t see the value in what this activist did. But one day no too long from now, we will no longer eat meat that comes from abused beings, and when that day comes, she will be remembered as a hero.
Natalie Bartosek
I so, so wish that one day soon we would not eat meat that comes from abused beings. But, if the rhetoric that came out during and after Measure J failed and the comments I received about writing about the deceitful campaign to defeat it are any indication, then that wish will not come true. Again people will attack what I say. But, the reality is that if Measure J had passed only factory farms, concentrated animal feeding operations (CFOs) would have been shut down in Sonoma county. These CFOs with hundreds of thousands of confined and mistreated animals are not small family farms, they are mega corporate operations feeding our need to eat meat every day of our lives. And yes, as most people know I am a vegetarian.
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