Animal activists oppose “right to food” measure
Story Date: 10/6/2021

 

Source: HUMANE WATCH, 10/5/21

Should you be allowed to eat what you want? To animal liberation activists, that answer is no. In Maine, legislators have put a question on the ballot asking voters if the state constitution should enshrine a right to food. We expect for most people, this would be a no-brainer: Yes. But the measure is facing opposition from animal rights activists, led by disgraced former Humane Society of the United States CEO Wayne Pacelle’s new group, Animal Wellness Action. (Pacelle resigned from HSUS in 2018 under a cloud of sexual harassment and assault allegations and founded Animal Wellness Action a few months later. He has never publicly apologized.)

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