Co-founder of Microsanctuary Resource Center and Triangle Chicken Advocates, Alastor Van Kleeck shares their thoughts on caregiving as a form of activism.
“It has become so clear to me over the years that engaging in farmed animal rescue and caregiving helps me to understand more fully who these individuals are, and to understand the emotional and social lives they lead. By better understanding them and then forming a bond with them, as family members, I see more vividly than ever just how cruel, unjust, and wrong every form of exploitation is. What better motivation could I have to change the larger system than the well-being of my loved ones and those just like them?”