Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2008

I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia.

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Critter News

APRIL 16, 2009

There are a lot of similarities between that movement and today's animal rights movement (such as it is.but that's another post). The drive to emancipate slaves was grounded on religious and moral grounds. Just look at the pro-life movement. Just look at the pro-life movement.

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

I not only learned about Harvey Milk, but about the early stages of the gay rights movement (which is ongoing today when one looks at all the right-wing flutterings over gay marriage.) It made me think though about the animal rights movement. Are we really a social movement like gay rights and civil rights?

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Animal Person

JULY 19, 2009

The animal rights movement, such as it is, is experiencing somewhat of a crisis of usage. Wrong and right are less useful and more fluid in language, but they're not in morality. Do you want people to stop using animals? Your belief about the rights of other sentients won't change.

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