The latest from the AVA (Animal and Vegan Advocacy) Summit:
PLATFORMING A GENOCIDIST.
Omri Paz is a speaker at AVA. He is the founder of Vegan Friendly, a group that has provided meals to Israeli military who are actively committing genocide against the people of Palestine. Genocide ain't vegan.
(It's okay though: they're gonna host a grief circle about it.)
ATTEMPTING TO DEPOLITICIZE THE MOVEMENT.
Among other politically charged panels aimed at appealing to conservatives, AVA
is hosting an interactive session,
"Depoliticizing Animal Advocacy: Messaging Your Cause to Conservative Audiences." We'll keep saying it: liberation is inherently political.
ENDORSING EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM.
Timothy Pachirat said it best: "What could possibly go wrong when a largely white and male alliance of academics, business and nonprofit arrivistes, and obscenely rich donors reduce complex situations to numbers and plug those numbers into equations that claim to offer moral and strategic clarity about how we should live in a suffering world?”
ENDORSING AI.
There are multiple Al-centric events scheduled at the AVA summit. Psychosocial and political issues aside, Al is objectively detrimental to our natural world and therefore antithetical to animal liberation. A single Al data center can use up to 2 million liters of water per day. Environmental liberation is inseparable from animal liberation.
THE MAINSTREAM ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IS FAILING.
Vegans Against Fascism coming May 30. Together, we can build a true liberation movement for all.