The basic form of my question is: Could associating animal rights with another, more visible social movement help it advance?
Perhaps, but only, I think, if the chosen social movement was very widely supported - for example, the movement advocating equal rights for black Americans. Otherwise, the movements would simply drag one another down by implying that in order to support one, a person must also support the other. Social movements such as that for LGBT (and all the other sometimes-included letters) rights, for example, would suffer enormously from the suggestion that in order to support them, one must also be a vegetarian/vegan. Similarly, animal rights would suffer from the suggestion that one must support all of the members of the LGBT-etc. community.
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