Animal Person
DECEMBER 1, 2009
The Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages calls itself "an animal rights-protection-abolitionist organization," which I find interesting. Horses Without Carriages International does a great job of explaining and showing the injustices of the horse-drawn carriage industry around the world.).
Critter News
DECEMBER 23, 2009
We support two ocean protection organizations: People for Puget Sound (local) and the Ocean Conservancy. The purpose is to protect ocean species as a whole. I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. Tags: oceans marine animals. I was reading Ocean Conservancy's magazine today.
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Critter News
JANUARY 9, 2009
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 Ethics
JULY 24, 2015
A recent Gallup poll (conducted May 6-10, 2015) found that 32% of Americans believe that "animals deserve the exact same rights as people to be free from harm and exploitation," while only 3% of Americans feel that animals don't need much protection from harm and exploitation "since they are just animals."
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
Tell me, what happens if we rip away hunting when hunting protects more wildlife land in Africa than national parks? And I really would have like to know what happens to that land when the industry goes. Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. I’m sorry.
Animal Person
MAY 11, 2009
Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in Animal Rights Debate? Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans?
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
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.
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