This is a reading of chapter 7 from my new book, Broken-heartedness: Towards love in professional practice. It is published by Revolutionaries which is a small independent book company that promotes ideas and ways of being for a more loving and peace filled world. This is a perfect fit for me as I show in this chapter how desire for peace and love necessitates the upholding of a key moral principle of the equal moral worth of all kinds of beings. As a social worker for many years, I’ve been almost totally focused on social justice for social groups who are discriminated against. But I have come to understand how social justice for people is intertwined with species justice for other animals and environmental justice for Nature. In fact, I believe that justice through being loving and nonviolent towards some species of other animals, namely farmed animals, is the key to addressing all other forms of injustice.
Listen to my podcast to hear how I have come to this view and of how this equal moral worth principle along with an unshakeable belief in love and the power of nonviolence underpins all types of justice work at this time on the planet. When justice is experienced by the most harmed beings, there will be no broken-heartedness. Mercy will be shown.
You can buy this book and my two other books - The revolutionary social worker: The love ethic model and The revolutionary social worker: Love ethic companion - published by Revolutionaries at https://revoltbooks.com/
Eco justice to extend social justice concerns about people to other animals and Nature