Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. The bottom line is that there are many reasons why human-animal interactions are so often inconsistent and paradoxical. They are extraordinary.

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Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy 100

Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2011

Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable. The rest of the animal advocacy community, which is the vast majority, who call themselves abolitionists, are abolitionists. would call HSUS an animal rights group (after all, HSUS doesn't even do that).

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Animal Rights For Animals Rights HSUS 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

I’d been volunteering at rescues through my young adulthood, and I was training as a cat socializer, teaching terrified felines — the unlucky victims of cruel people — to trust humans again. All of these afflictions are human-caused and largely preventable. One typical, blue-sky, L.A. I was mortified. And, I would have understood.

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Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 216

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

In the past I have attributed some of this conflict to differences between the conservation mindset and that of animal rights/animal welfare. I wonder instead if this is actually about the difference between advocacy and action, and about the way things ‘should’ be. Dogs should not be used to hunt foxes.

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Tigers Hunting Game Protection 176