Sure, I would, except I don't use facebook or myspace or twitter or any of those sites. I'm actually kind of anti-social, not so much because of my misanthropy, but simply due to sheer laziness.
Ellen made an abolitionist-like comment when she started talking about the volume of production.
"You think about the consumption and how fast they have to mass produce, and you can't possibly put together in your head one healthy, happy animal. They're all in pain, they're all treated badly, they're all diseased, and they're all pumped with antibiotics."
Whether she realizes it or not, she's advocating against the welfarist position, at least with that one comment (despite the last part about antibiotics). Hell, I was so confused in my early 20s that I found old forum posts where I was arguing the rights position over welfare (without identifying it as such - because I didn't yet fully understand it except on a very abstract level) before I even stopped eating meat... and I had one of the longer ovo-lacto-veg periods (four full years, which I'm now not proud of anymore) before turning vegan.
Although maybe my situation is unique, because my original thinking was virtually identical to Gary's (before I ever knew he existed), and the main reason I was so impressed by his writing is because he's so much more skilled and efficient at expressing the viewpoint that he and I always shared than I could ever be. What mattered to me was that it was being said, and I could always use Gary's blog as a fallback position when I was having a hard time explaining to someone why I'm vegan. It didn't matter to me who was saying it. It just had to be said, and for that, I will always be grateful to Gary.
So yeah, I agree that she's probably been sucked in by Peta, but in a way, it's hard to blame her for it. I think it's still a small step in the right direction when someone like her suggests that "happy" meat isn't really the slightest bit happy. Maybe she's unknowingly a shill for Peta sometimes, but on a strictly personal and abstract level, I think she understands the difference between rights and welfare, and she falls on the correct side of the tracks, even if she calls it something else.
Of course it would be better if all abolitionists could get on the same page and use consistent language. But just the thoughts themselves are a good starting point in her case. I see a lot of potential for her in the future when it comes to abolition. Whether she reaches that potential is yet to be determined, but I really think it's there. She clearly has a history of courage in opposing cultural norms and stereotypes.
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