Our environmental nonprofit has been approached by a factory farming corporation wanting to partner on a 'sustainable agriculture' initiative and half our board sees it as a chance to create change from within while the other half thinks we're selling out our core values around animal welfare. We're supposed to vote next week and I can feel the organization fracturing along lines that go deeper than this one decision.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group committed to animal welfare faces the tension between pragmatic compromise and moral purity when opportunities for influence require working with those who perpetuate harm.
“Where Are You with Animal rights and moral consideration?”
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