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In the early summer of 2017, an animal advocacy group risked arrest to enter Circle Four Farms in Milford, Utah and rescued two piglets named Lucy and Lizza from the facility. This group, called Direct Action Everywhere, was hoping to document and publicize forms of animal exploitation and abuse that occur throughout the production of animals in factory farms. In the hopes of advocating for the abolition of animal exploitation, the group conducts protests such as removing animals directly from animal production facilities, chaining themselves to slaughterhouses, and confronting corporations about their treatment of animals in grocery stores while streaming the events live to their Facebook page. Through this work, Direct Action Everywhere is one of the few groups that hopes to bring conversations about animal treatment to mainstream discourses about human diets. In this thesis, I will extend the work of Direct Action Everywhere to suggest a framework through which to read animal perspective and analyze power within the animal liberation movement. To center this analysis in the perspective of an animal, I will begin with a diary depicting a plausible perspective of Lucy and Lizza's mother in the pig production farm. Then, using Carl Safina's Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, I will suggest the incorporation of anthropomorphism and anthropocentrism into frameworks about animal perspective, animal power structures, and animal liberation. Finally, I will propose a greater focus on animal logos in animal liberation discourses. |
