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Are We Really a Movement?

Critter News

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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Majority Rules in the Language of Animal Rights

Animal Person

The animal rights movement, such as it is, is experiencing somewhat of a crisis of usage. Each side wants their use of "animal rights" to amass the most territory (the most votes, the most users), which will make theirs the winner of the common usage contest, where majority rules.