By Lee Hall
Part 10 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 tenth in a series, as we look at each of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The tenth goal is “Reduced Inequalities.”
Animal agribusiness hooks whole nations on feed, fertilizers, and veterinary pharmaceuticals from mega-corporations. If we’d value what we could all grow, people would achieve greater independence, and maybe something approaching equality.
Some people will need to move to find the sustenance others take for granted. Border walls and barbed wires deprive us all—human, wolf, or antelope—of our natural ability to move across our Earth.
Shouldn’t we all have this basic animal right?
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.
