Animals and Public Policy
Choose two of the three topics below. Each answer should be approximately 5 pages, 12-point Times New Roman font, and double spaced, with proper citation.
Use the lens of Henry Spira’s campaign tactics to analyze the animal issue you gave your individual in-class presentation on at the beginning of the semester. Have any of Spira’s tactics been deployed in fighting for animal rights in the issue and how so? Have any of his tactics not been used? Identify and explain potential future possibilities for the campaign with these unused tactics.
Analyze the animal protection movement’s attempts to improve the treatment of farmed animals in the last 30 years. Discuss where you think the movement is/was successful, and where you think the movement is failing/has failed and why. Discuss what you believe the animal protection movement’s public policy approach should be to this issue going forward.
Argue for or against incrementalism or abolition as the ideal strategy for animal protection. Be sure to use examples of successful campaigns that have either been incremental or abolitionist to support your argument.
