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Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
MARCH 11, 2017
I'm rooting for Steven Wise
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Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
JUNE 5, 2016
Good leftist that he is, Peter Singer doesn't let a crisis go to waste. Addendum: The argument seems to be as follows: It is inconsistent both (a) to eat meat and (b) to condemn (or mourn) the killing of Harambe; I condemn (or mourn) the killing of Harambe; therefore, I may no longer eat meat. Here are some objections: The first premise is false. The first premise is true, but I don't care about inconsistency.
"Bold Native" is Film About Animal Rights
Critter News
MARCH 20, 2010
Tags: animal enterprise terrorism act entertainment animal rights
Animal Rights is a Social Justice Issue
Critter News
MAY 14, 2009
Tags: animal rights social justice
Animal Rights Activists Jailed in Europe
Critter News
OCTOBER 28, 2010
They are members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC). The group had targeted about 40 firms as part of an international conspiracy to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an animal research laboratory based near Cambridge. The members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) posted hoax parcel bombs to staff and offices, carried out criminal damage, threatened violence and made abusive phone calls, Winchester Crown Court was told.
On Fighting for "Animal Rights"
Animal Person
APRIL 5, 2011
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. would call HSUS an animal rights group (after all, HSUS doesn't even do that). Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable. It helps them focus on what's really being done to animals.
Undercover Animal Rights Investigator Interviewed
Critter News
MARCH 19, 2009
Really interesting interview with an animal rights undercover investigator. Tags: animal abuse undercover investigation animal rights factory farm This is very important work and an enlightening, though short, piece. I admire these people tremendously, whether they go undercover on a factory farm or a research institute. I could never do what they do. I don't have the guts.
Animal Rights in the Middle East
Critter News
APRIL 5, 2010
Interesting article on the challenges faced by animal rights activists in the Middle East. Tags: developing countries animal rights Middle East Even though they are often met with condescension, the fact that they are out there means a lot. Hell, I'm met with condescension in my own country and my own home. And I'm in a "progressive" environment.
Examples of FBI Tactics Against Animal Rights Activist
Critter News
APRIL 14, 2010
Tags: animal enterprise terrorism act FBI animal rights
FBI Discussed Ways to Discredit Animal Rights Activists
Critter News
DECEMBER 6, 2010
The FBI and a previously-unknown informant in the animal rights movement discussed, among other topics, how to disrupt political activism, according to FBI documents. activism FBI animal rightsThis from the blog Green is the New Red. Read the full post here. The topics discussed echo COINTELPRO-era tactics of the 1960s, including the possibility of discrediting activists through planting rumors.
Animal Rights Now On Our Ethical Radar?
Critter News
MAY 9, 2009
New York Times opinion piece by Nicholas Kristof on animal rights. Tags: activism animal rights political movement Fascinating and uplifting (for a change!) I totally overlooked it back in April.
Oklahoma Editorial About "Rising Animal Rights Terrorism"
Critter News
AUGUST 18, 2009
This editorial in the web version of the Oklahoman denounces animal rights terrorism; however, it finishes off by supporting medical research on animals. Tags: animal rights medical research What about the terror and violence involved in that? But they do try to cover themselves by pointing out they oppose cosmetics research.).
Amy Goodman Interviews Former Animal Rights Prisoner
Critter News
JUNE 29, 2009
Here's a video and transcript of Amy Goodman's interview with Andrew Stepanian, an animal rights activist who was jailed at a secretive prison known as a Communication Management Unit, or CMU. He was jailed along with six other activists for violating the Animal Enterprise Protection Act. Tags: animal rights
Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
In issuing its condemnation of established cultural practices, the rights view is not antibusiness, not antifreedom of the individual, not antiscience, not antihuman. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals.
Book Chronicles History of Animal Rights
Critter News
JANUARY 9, 2009
The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA by Norm Phelps came out in 2007. In a brisk, readable narrative, The Longest Struggle traces the campaigns of animal rights pioneers like Henry Spira, Alex Hershaft, and Ingrid Newkirk, as well as leaders who have come more recently on the scene like Heidi Prescott, Karen Davis, and Bruce Friedrich. Tags: animal rights
Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 10, 2012
I'm a longtime proponent of animal rights, but this suit is ridiculous. Applying it to nonhuman animals is a stretch. Second, it is not a necessary condition for the possession of rights (legal or otherwise) that one be a person. Nonhuman animals can suffer. That fact alone suffices to grant them a legal right not to be made to suffer. The right is defeasible, of course, as it is in the case of humans.
Beliefs About Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
JULY 24, 2015
Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. If you are among the growing number of Americans who think that animals deserve the same moral rights as people, you can help promote their rights by refusing to purchase products from industries that harm and exploit animals.
Australian Animal Rights Campaign to Help Calves
Critter News
FEBRUARY 6, 2011
ANIMAL rights groups have begun a campaign against the dairy industry's treatment of bobby calves. Animals Australia has a video on its website showing calves being roughly dragged off utes and thrown to the ground. RSPCA scientific officer (farm animals) Melina Tensen said there had been no independently funded research into the effects of leaving calves unfed for 30 hours. australia calves cows farm animal welfare
Ocean Advocacy and Animal Rights
Critter News
DECEMBER 23, 2009
I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. Tags: oceans marine animals We support two ocean protection organizations: People for Puget Sound (local) and the Ocean Conservancy. I was reading Ocean Conservancy's magazine today. For the past couple of issues I've read, it has had a "sustainable seafood recipe." I understand that they are trying to encourage people to eat fish and other marine life that are not part of a collapsing fishery.
On "Animal Rights Conferences"
Animal Person
MARCH 28, 2009
" Two Animal Rights Conferences: Will you be there? " by Drew Wilson at Care2's animal welfare blog has yet to have any comments about rights and welfare. The post itself doesn't actually intentionally differentiate between the terms, but does align TAFA with reform and AR with rights (and then mentions Vegan Outreach). I don't know how big the readership of that blog is, but it is international if that matters.
Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 26, 2011
I support the goal of legal rights for nonhuman animals, but this approach is wrongheaded. Instead of using the 13th Amendment, the original understanding of which did not include animals, proponents should work for a constitutional amendment, or simply for national legislation. Take it to the people
Animal Rights Zone Launches Today
Animal Person
APRIL 21, 2009
I'm excited to be a blogger for Animal Rights Zone because its target market is people who don't usually subscribe to blogs. More >> Animals. Rights. Today is the launch of.
What's the Difference Between Animal Welfare and Animal Rights?
Critter News
JUNE 4, 2009
Tags: animal rights animal welfare
Excellent Group for Animal Rights in Asia
Critter News
MARCH 27, 2011
Please consider Animals Asia for your future donations. animal abuse animal cruelty china asiaI love this organization and have supported them for a few years now. They do important work.
Animal Rights Activists in Spain Bare All.and More!
Critter News
JANUARY 8, 2009
The article asks whether nude activism for animal rights has lost its effectiveness. They are pretty intense , especially the one in which the activists are clothed and holding dead animals. Tags: spain animal rights The reason I post a link though is for the photos.
National Animal Rights Conference in LA Starts July 16
Critter News
JUNE 25, 2009
Some of the groups attending will be: FARM In Defense of Animals Sea Shepherd ACT Radio Anti-Fur Society E/Environmental Mag Eko Zone Healing Species League of Humane Voters Mercy For Animals Stop Animal Exploitation Now! Tags: animal rights You can sign up here.
UK Animal Rights Activists Profiled
Critter News
DECEMBER 26, 2008
Here is n article in the Guardian about several activists involved in SHAC (Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty
Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?
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. If a meat eater eats meat, but hates the factory farm system or animal experimentation, do we discount anything we can get out of them because they are not "pure." Tags: activism musings animal rights animal welfare
New Hub for Animal Rights
Animal Person
DECEMBER 18, 2009
Stephanie Ernst, formerly of Change.org , has started a new space called " Animal Rights and AntiOppression " and she has invited yours truly to post there! The tag line is: "Challenging oppression and injustice, against nonhuman animals, humans, and earth — one vegan, environmentalist, feminist, social-justice-loving, all-around-progressive post at a time. I am Mary Martin, and my first post is " On the Neglect of Animals by The Left."
Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
MARCH 4, 2010
Here is a New York Times blog post about legal rights for animals
Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?
Animal Person
MAY 10, 2009
In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. However, both his perceptions and misconceptions are based on: 1) observing the work of PeTA and HSUS; and 2) the assumption that those two organizations are in the same category--"animal rights." Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is.
The Philosophy of Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 11, 2013
Mylan Engel Jr and Kathie Jenni are the authors of this book. Mylan is a longtime contributor to this blog. We met in graduate school at the University of Arizona in 1983
Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
MAY 20, 2008
A few years ago, philosopher David Oderberg published an essay entitled " The Illusion of Animal Rights " in The Human Life Review. A few months ago, having belatedly discovered Oderberg's essay, I wrote a critique entitled " Oderberg on Animal Rights ," which I duly submitted to The Human Life Review for publication.
Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
APRIL 9, 2009
Here is a New York Times op-ed column about legal rights for animals. Peter Singer is quoted
Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
JULY 14, 2008
I've been reading the literature of animal rights for nearly three decades, and contributing to it for the past decade or so. The author fails to distinguish legal rights from moral rights, fails to distinguish the question whether animals do have legal rights from the question whether they should have legal rights, fails to analyze the concept of a right (i.e.,
Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 24, 2008
Here is a New York Times story about California's Proposition 2
H. J. McCloskey on Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 1, 2010
As regards animals, the position is clear. If an animal has the relevant moral capacities, actually or potentially, then it can be a possessor of rights. McCloskey, "Moral Rights and Animals," Inquiry 22 [summer 1979]: 23-54, at 42-3 [italics in original
Join Us at Animal Rights and AntiOppression!
Animal Person
JANUARY 4, 2010
Just a note to those of you who might now know that I've been posting over at Animal Rights & AntiOppression ( [link] ) for a couple of weeks, so daily posting here doesn't mean I haven't posted. Today I wrote about John Perkins' new book called " Hoodwinked ," and I welcome you to come over, check it out and say Hi! There have been some fantastic, insightful and tear-jerking posts over at the new site, and great discussions have emerged.
Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
JULY 30, 2008
I got a nice surprise in the mail today: a complimentary copy of this , which contains my 1998 essay "Doing Right by Our Animal Companions." Expensive, eh
New Book on Animal Rights Activism
Critter News
MAY 9, 2009
It's titled "The Animal Activists' Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World" by Matt Ball and Bruce Friedrich. One guy runs Vegan Outreach and the other is a VP at PETA (they have those?). Here's a review on Huffington Post. Looks like it has some interesting ideas.
Animal Rights Activists Arrested in UC Attacks
Critter News
FEBRUARY 21, 2009
They trespassed on his front yard, chanted slogans and accused him of being a murderer because of his use of animals in research. From the looks of it, they aren't charging them with any firebombings or anything like that. Crimes arrested activists are accused of Oct. 21, 2007: A group of 20 protesters demonstrated outside of a UC Berkeley professor's home in El Cerrito. Some wore bandanas to hide their faces.
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