The surest way to impact public policy is to impact elected officials. And the most effective way to impact public officials is to threaten their incumbencies.

The animal movement has little political influence. And that is a generous assessment. Animal issues are not on the public’s radar, so they are not on politicians’ radar either.

Even among progressives there are precious few who are committed to animal protection, let alone to animal rights or veganism.

Unlike progressives like Bernie Sanders, animal activists owe no allegiance to the Democratic party.

And it makes no difference to the animals being tortured and murdered whether the lobbyists for Big Ag and Big Pharma bribed Republicans or Democrats to vote for the terror to happen.

A poll conducted 4 years ago revealed that animal activists do not vote as an influential bloc. We squander what strategic power we could wield. We are actually as…