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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. I feel for the purist also with regard to the terms "animal rights" and "abolition." Once again, the people wrote the rules (43).

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On Dolphins as a Gateway to Animal Rights

Animal Person

The way I see it, there are three camps on this one: People who think that dolphins or Great Apes or chimps could function as a gateway to other animals getting rights. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory. Would you actually actively campaign against rights for some species?

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Undercover Video Sparks Calls for Canadian Ban on Horse Meat

Critter News

Animal rights groups are calling for a ban on the sale of horse meat after disturbing video at a slaughterhouse in west Quebec was sent to the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition. They call the process unethical. Excerpted from CTV.CA. It shows a parade of horses being stunned with what's called a captive bolt pistol.

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Followup: Some Zoo Keepers Fighting to Stop Elephant Transfer to Sanctuary

Critter News

War has erupted between Toronto Zoo elephant keepers and the animal rights group helping to co-ordinate a move of three aging elephants to a California sanctuary. They were trying to sabotage the process. Excepted from the Toronto News. We’re happy to work with them but need them to be straight up and upfront with us.”.

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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.

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Where Does Entertainment Begin and End?

Animal Person

Free Speech may be a noble ideal, but perhaps we are better served by thinking of it not only as a right but also as a privilege. They certainly depict cruelty to animals, right? Or don't they because animals we use for food are not thought by the masses as victims of cruelty? Need it be gratuitous to be offensive?