Well, yes. Of course, they do. But to the best of my knowledge, no one is actively hunting us down. We do get some bad press from time to time.
Recently a "vegan influencer" created a video on Animal Lives Matter. I happen to agree with the sentiment 100%. but she got shot down pretty fiercely. the problem wasn't that animal lives don't matter but that the right has adopted the phrase All Lives Matter. This is also true but they say that in a way that implies that Black lives don't matter that much.
Redirecting the phrase to encompass “all lives,” including animals, is unethical and unsupportive of the racial justice movement. We should be giving “Black Lives Matter” the space to spread its meaningful message.
vegnews.com
A vegan TikToker is receiving backlash after posting a video Tuesday animal rights and Black Lives Matter are “all the same fight,” the Evening Standard reports. In her video, Lauren Rebecca Perez said she wished that “more people would connect these two dots… Black lives matter and animal lives...
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Peta even caught some flack on their Black Lives Matter commercial. which I thought was totally respectful. do just be careful with this kind of statement.
The ad shows animals from bears to horses taking a knee, ending with an American bald eagle kneeling, before the caption rolls: "Respect is the right of every living being #EndSpeciesism."
www.jpost.com