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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"

Animal Person

Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable. Fighting to maintain the integrity of the words humane, love, euthanasia or compassion, is also fighting for animals. would call HSUS an animal rights group (after all, HSUS doesn't even do that).

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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan).