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I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering. This makes perfect sense. The logic of this is ridiculous.
I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animalrightsmovement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. This post is inspired by a thought-provoking piece on the Provoked blog (clearly a good name for a blog!) Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc.
The animalrightsmovement is not for the faint of heart. How we change the dominant misconception of animals—indeed, whether we change it—is to a large extent a political question. To overcome the collective entropy of these forces-against-change will not be easy.
I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the AnimalRightsMovement. Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animalrightsmovement in England, the United States and Australia.
I'm reading a book about women in the American abolitionist movement. There are a lot of similarities between that movement and today's animalrightsmovement (such as it is.but that's another post). Just look at the pro-life movement. Where is that religious outrage over the treatment of animals?
The animalrightsmovement is not for the faint heart." --Tom Regan. ".prejudices die hard, all the more so when they are insulated by widespread secular customs and religious beliefs, sustained by large and powerful economic interests, and protected by the common law.
And I think that, yes, there is a place for shock value in the animalrightsmovement. I recently became a member of PETA because I admire their investigative arm and their ability to get media attention. Sometimes you have to have a "bomb-thrower" (figuratively speaking!) But sometimes, well, PETA does overdo it.
I not only learned about Harvey Milk, but about the early stages of the gay rightsmovement (which is ongoing today when one looks at all the right-wing flutterings over gay marriage.) It made me think though about the animalrightsmovement. Are we really a social movement like gay rights and civil rights?
The FBI and a previously-unknown informant in the animalrightsmovement discussed, among other topics, how to disrupt political activism, according to FBI documents. This from the blog Green is the New Red. Read the full post here.
He said that a lot of Inuit feel betrayed by the animalrightsmovement, and by some biologists when it comes to polar bears. s director of wildlife, Gabriel Nirlinguyak} said, recalling that the two had cooperated on bowhead whale management issues. But not with polar bears."
I hope, when I reach their age, I'm as active and effective as Bob Barker and Betty White are in the animalrightsmovement. Toronto city council voted in October to move the elephants to a facility run by PAWS (Performing Animal Welfare Society) near Galt, Calif., Excerpted from CBC News. called ARK 2000.
The conservation movement also has an ally in this in the farming industry, which relies on possum poisoning to reduce the potential reservoir of bovine TB (if that seems like an interesting alliance, in this fight the animalsrightsmovement is allied to hunters, which oppose the control of larger introduced species which they like to hunt!).
Wise taught AnimalRights Law at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, John Marshall Law School, and Lewis & Clark Law School. Martin Rowe, Executive Director of the Culture and Animals Foundation remembers Steven Wise and his contributions to the animalrightsmovement here.
And that means for the animalrightsmovement: Social entities like compassion, empathy and suffering are very important factors to motivate humans to change their behaviour. In contrast, abstract-rational entities, like personhood or rights, are not. I don't disagree with that, as most people are conformists.
I've decided that 20 lessons is a good number to stop at, and today I'll discuss what are probably the two most controversial ones, about the animalrightsmovement. The Appeal of Cliques The first six Lessons Learned from 4 Years of Animal Person and numbers 7-10 hinted about cliques, but only the negative aspects.
Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animalrightsmovement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans? restaurants by animalrights activists."
Next, a fellow introvert e-mailed me describing herself as extremely awkward socially as well as invisible and having social anxiety, and asking where/how she might be useful to the animalrightsmovement.
The animalrightsmovement, such as it is, is experiencing somewhat of a crisis of usage. At least fifty-nine grammar books of the period pounced on "wrote," calling the usage "absurd," "bad," a "barbarism," "colloquial," "corrupt," "improper," "inelegant," "ungrammatical," a "solecism," or "vulgar."
Because animals are sentient (i.e., can experience pleasure and pain) and because they not only have but can act on their preferences, any view that holds that pleasures or pains, or preference-satisfactions or frustrations matter morally is bound to seem attractive to those in search of the moral basis for the animalrightsmovement.
Here is a resource for anyone who is doing research on, or is merely interested in, animalrights. Tom Regan is one of the founders of the modern animal-rightsmovement. I will add the site to the blogroll.
Most informative for a discussion about vegan advocacy is the section about the animalrightsmovement (and unfortunately he alternately calls it “animal protection” and also refers to welfare, perhaps because of the Humane Research Council’s study that people prefer the word “protection”). What about their horror?
If Smith thinks that plant rights and animalrights stand or fall together, then he is confused, for there is a morally relevant difference between plants and animals, namely, that only the latter are sentient. Addendum: Smith appears not to understand the animal-rightsmovement.
On the other hand, animal liberation, if pursued at the practical as well as rhetorical level, would have ruinous consequences on plants, soils, and waters, consequences which could not be directly reckoned according to humane moral theory.
It is not that they do no wrong, but that “right” and “wrong” here make no sense. And that explains, in part, the appeal of the animal-rightsmovement. Nothing impedes our sympathy for the chimpanzee and the bonobo, since their lives are blameless.
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