By Lee Hall
Part 8 of a Series
Sustainable Development Goals: They’re a major topic on social media. But if humans want to be sustainable, we’ve got to get serious. We must divest from customs and businesses that treat animal life as commodities. This blog entry is the eighth in a series, as we look at each of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The eighth goal is “Decent Work and Economic Growth.”
It’s hardly possible to keep increasing the footprint of grazing, aquaculture, and feed crops worldwide and be serious about sustainability. This, the UN has known for years.
And is any work more indecent than animal breeding and animal killing? Is there any profit more misguided than that which ruins the Earth’s habitat and natural resources?
For sustainable and decent agriculture, let’s leave other living, feeling beings free of it.
Lee Hall is a member of the Speakers Bureau of the American Vegan Society. Lee’s entry on “Nonhuman Rights and Human Sustainability” appears in the Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Springer). Lee holds a Master’s degree in environmental law with a focus on climate change from Vermont Law School, and has taught environmental law at the University level.
