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Thousands Offered for Primate Freedom

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An animal rights activist has offered $30,000 to anyone who facilitates the freeing of primates, or the end of vivisection, at the University of Kansas, a place cited for numerous animal welfare violations. Tags: University of Kansas animal research vivisection primates. He does not condone violent or illegal acts.

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Animal Rights Activists Attack Berkeley Vet

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We acted against Timmel because he is a veterinarian in UC Berkeley's vivisection labs. Tags: ALF. We would have reduced the Audi to ashes; if not for the fact that tailing him prevented us from grabbing the instruments that would have set his sh*t aflame. But there's always tomorrow. Liberation's crusade has begun.

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A Reluctant Vivisector

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For all of you who think there are no moral quandaries to vivisection and animal research, read this. They just want to take away our rights to research!" Tags: animal experimentation animal research vivisection medical research. In fact, read the whole 5-part series in Slate.

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How to Confront Cruelty

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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. Sounds interesting.

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On Different Results of Direct Action

Animal Person

Here's another direct action and its result, as described in an interview by Larry Mantle on KPCC Radio (it's the one called " Animal Rights vs. Animal Testing "). He speaks of the "mixed message of the animal rights community" that animals are so much like us, yet not enough like us to experiment on. That's one result.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Old-speciesists have a rights view of at least some humans but a utilitarian view of nonhumans (18). In some sense, of course, many (perhaps most) humans don't know right from wrong. Tags: Books Ethics Language. Despite human overpopulation and crowding, only nonhumans are said to "infest" an area (19).

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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? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights animal snuff films free speech Supreme Court Vamsee Juluri veganism.