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Majority Rules in the Language of Animal Rights

Animal Person

What's interesting to me today, however, is the process of "the flip" (my term). The animal rights movement, such as it is, is experiencing somewhat of a crisis of usage. On the language front, only time will tell who wins more of the time, as who's "right/correct" can change at any point.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. And people that work in either conservation or animal welfare tend to like animals.