- Animal Rights
- Animals are NOT property;
- Veganism should be the moral baseline of every activist.
Less Cruel diets/lifestyles:
- Vegetarian: Eats no meat and fish.
- Vegetarian or strict vegetarian: Eats no dairy or egg products.
- Lacto-ovo-vegetarian: Eats both dairy and eggs.
- Lacto-vegetarian: Eats dairy but not eggs.
- Ovo-vegetarian: Eats eggs but not dairy.
- Animal Rights Concerns only supports the strict vegetarian diet.
- Vegan: Does not eat or use animal products (no meat, fish, dairy products, eggs or any other animal or fish product like leather or fur).
- Raw Vegan: Eats unprocessed vegan foods that have not been heated above 46°C (or 115°F).
- Fruitarian : Only eats (raw) fruits.
Get Facts on:
- Factory Farming: Get an inside in the Chicken, Pigs, Cattle, Sheep,... industry.
- Vivisection: Learn why vivisection doesn't work.
- Fur: See from where a leather shoe comes and what happens in the fur industry
- Wildlife: Get the facts on wildlife.
Vegetarianism and Animal Rights? No Can Do!
What did one ovo-lacto-vegetarian (consumes eggs and milk but no flesh) animal rights activist (OLV ARA) say to the other? Give up? Nothing, because they don’t exist!
That’s right, there are no ovo-lacto-vegetarian animal rights activists in existence today. Who is to blame for this? Did your "carbon footprint" stamp out their habitat?
No. There never were any in the first place, there aren’t any now, and there never will be any.
The two personas – the ovo-lacto-vegetarian (OLV) and the animal rights activist (ARA) -- are so in contradiction to each other that they cannot co-exist in the same person...
Read more more about lacto-ovo-vegetarians and animal rights here.
Vivisection
Millions of innocent animals are abused, tortured, confined and eventually killed to determine the “safety” of products. Substances ranging from eye shadow and soap to furniture polish and oven cleaner are tested on rabbits, rats, guinea pigs, dogs, and other animals. However there are alternatives to animal testing...
Read more more about vivisection here.
Counter Arguments to Out-dated Rebuttals
This article will primarily focus on the reasons often given by meat eaters for their consumption. I will now attempt to effectively dismiss the main arguments given forth by meat eaters.
Read more more about eating meat and why you shouldn't here.
Reasons for a vegetarian diet
Vegetarianism. Is described in the dictionary as a “diet excluding all meat and fish,” But to the vegetarian, it is so much more.
Read about the Health, Money, Ethics and Environment Reasons.
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Animal Rights Community
www.animalrightscommunity.com
ARCO is an international animal rights community that offers vegan support and is a platform for animal rights activists around the globe.
ARCO offers online forums, bloghost for animal rights and vegan inspirate blogs, activists calendar, weblink directory, free website (blog) hosting for animal rights and vegan projects.
Virtually all the articles and essays collected here are milestones in the formation of the modern theory of the legal and moral rights of animals. This collection provides a lucid summary of a significant body of thought on animal rights. -Julian H. Franklin
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Professor Gary L. Francione argues that the property status of animals renders meaningless animal welfare laws that prohibit the infliction of unecessary suffering and require the humane treatment of nonhumans.
Stop the exploitation and Go Vegan!