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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"

Animal Person

A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable.

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Book Chronicles History of Animal Rights

Critter News

The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA by Norm Phelps came out in 2007. Tags: animal rights. Worth a look.

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PETA to Start Using Porn in its Advocacy

Critter News

The fur is flying over plans by the People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals to run a porn site in the group’s fight against animal abuse. Peta.xxx will have sexually explicit content and address animal rights issues. Excerpted from the Toronto Sun.

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Tom Regan (1938-2017), R.I.P.

Animal Ethics

Yesterday, the world lost its most powerful voice for animal rights, Tom Regan. No one has done more to explain what "animal rights" means and why animals have rights than Tom Regan. CAF’s grants help make possible the next generation of animal rights scholarship and artistry.

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Clarification on Messaging

Animal Person

Vegan education/advocacy for animals is easiest for me when I know my audience. I was going in a different direction with this post when I read Deb's " Effective Images in Advocacy: Do We Know What Works? Of course, those people, who are often the "spiritual" ones, are particularly frustrating to deal with. this morning.

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On "Animal Activism"

Animal Person

I notice that if I use "animal rights activist" or anything with the word "rights" in it, because it's loaded and misunderstood, my listener often has an immediate bias of some kind. People have a relationship, whether or not they are aware, to the term "animal rights." And not necessarily for animals.

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On Atheism and Veganism, Part Deux

Animal Person

If we throw up our hands in disgust at the level of support for animal abuse in America’s churches and synagogues, we will set back the animals’ cause by at least a generation and probably more. They might not have a rights position, but we use what we have. But in my vegan advocacy that's the perfect place to begin (or end).

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