The everyday mistreatment of animals fosters habits of belief and behavior that makes it easier for us to hurt people and the environment and harder for us to solve problems like inequality, violence, and climate change. Bringing ourselves into better relationship with the other-than-human world, including our nonhuman kin, can enliven and inform the struggles for peace, equity, and sustainability.

Pattrice Jones is a co-founder of VINE Sanctuary, an LGBTQ-led farmed animal refuge that works for social and environmental justice as well as animal liberation. As an ecofeminist scholar with more than 40 years of experience in social justice activism, Pattrice speaks and publishes widely on the topic of using ecological strategies to solve systemic problems.

Topics: Animals, Social Justice