ABSTRACT
Chapter 10, “The ethics of legal food activism,” discusses the implications of these impacts for the ethics of legal food activism. If a particular industry causes unnecessary harm to humans, nonhumans, and the environment, do we have a moral obligation to resist that industry through activism? Here we consider questions such as: Do we have a moral obligation to engage in food activism? If we do engage in food activism, should we aspire to abolish or regulate industrial animal agriculture? Finally, regardless of which goal we select, should we pursue this goal through characteristically radical activism (e.g., revolutionary and confrontational approaches) or through characteristically moderate activism (e.g., reformist and conciliatory approaches)? Throughout this discussion, we emphasize the value of mixed approaches to activism, and we also emphasize the challenges that activists face in a society that labels them as more radical than they actually are.
