Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2009

I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animal rights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. You can exhort people to go vegan, but if only vegans have legitimacy in the movement, then it's condemned to a very, very small voice and limited short-term impact.

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Critter News

APRIL 16, 2009

I'm reading a book about women in the American abolitionist movement. There are a lot of similarities between that movement and today's animal rights movement (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?

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Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2008

I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia.

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Animal Person

JULY 19, 2009

Here's a hint from the authors: In the end, it's not the grammarians and usage experts who decide what's right. The animal rights movement, such as it is, is experiencing somewhat of a crisis of usage. I feel for the purist also with regard to the terms "animal rights" and "abolition." So who's right?

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Critter News

JUNE 17, 2009

The animal rights movement is not for the faint heart." --Tom Regan. Tags: quotes. ".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.

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

Last night, I watched "Milk," the film about assassinated gay rights activist Harvey Milk. 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.) Animals can't do that.

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JUNE 6, 2009

And I think that, yes, there is a place for shock value in the animal rights movement. Tags: activism political movement PETA. 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!)

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