“What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep?”

Part of the speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Summer 2010)
Context: Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity? Have not cows been enslaved? What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep? If they're not enslaved, then what are they? Free? Can slavery have a victim that is neither a human, nor an animal? Have not the oceans, the forests, the earth itself, become victims of ownership too?

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animal rights activist 1970

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