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Articles in the category: Animal Rights

• The case against pet breeding

  Category: Animal Rights Issues
  When ancestral wolves chose human companionship, wolves had the freedom to go in and out of the caves at will. They also hunted for food (with humans) and did not require humans to choose whether to feed them or not, and when to feed them. Each individual wolf had the choice of whether to involve himself with humans at all. The ancestral wolves freely chose human companionship, and were free to...
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• Animal Rights in 5 points

  Category: Animal Rights Issues
  In common speciesist language, the term "animals" is understood as non-human animals.  Biologically speaking, humans are animals too, and these 5 animal rights points apply to both human and non-human animals.Animals have the right to be treated as individuals, and not just as members of a species.  All individual animals are sentient, and experi...
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• Animal Rights and Racism

  Category: Animal Rights Issues
  Why do people ascribe rights to non-human animals?  The reason is simple.  Animals, are capable of feeling pleasure, pain and anxiety.  They are also conscious to the extent that they possibly try to avoid sources of pain and danger, since they are capable of memorizing things and happenings.  Many non-human animals may also feel affection or hate.  All animals are sent...
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• Animal Rights Frequently Asked Questions.

  Category: Animal Rights Issues
  What do you mean by animal rights?Animal rights means that all animals deserve certain kinds of consideration - consideration of what is in their own best interests regardless of whether they are cute, useful to humans, or an endangered species and regardless of whether any human cares about them at all (just as a mentally-challenged human has rights even if he or she is not cute or us...
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• Which comes first - human or animal rights?

  Category: Animal Rights Issues
  I've heard this question asked so many times:-  "How can you waste time on animal rights when human rights are still being trampled on today?".  A simple answer would be that someone has to do it, and the fact that there is human misery all around us is no excuse to do nothing on behalf of non-human animals.  But this is a complex question and demands a similar comp...
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• Animal Rights and the Environment

  Category: Animal Rights Issues
  Animal rights issues may at first sight appear not directly relevant to an essay on environmental issues, but upon a closer study, it is clear that animal rights campaigners and groups have much to offer for any serious debate on the environment.  Although some animal rights activists disagree with some environmentalists (for instance it is preferable for animal rights activists to save a ...
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• Rejection of the claim that non-human animals do not have rights.

  Category: Animal Rights Issues
  We hear it said several times that while we have the duty not to be cruel to non-human animals, they nonetheless cannot have rights.  The holders of this opinion claim this is so because non-human animals do not recognise the concept of rights.  This argument is flawed for the following reasons:
  
  First of all, if we have a duty not to be cruel to other animals, it so follows...
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• Why you should avoid using the term ”Animal lover”

  Category: Animal Rights Issues
  The term “animal lover” should be best avoided as a term describing individuals who campaign or work for the better treatment of non-human animals, or for animal rights.  The main reason is that generally speaking, people who describe themselves as "animal lovers" usually enjoy the company of some or most animals, but this does not necessarily mean that the “ani...
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• Easygoing Speciesism

  Category: Speciesism
  In my doctoral thesis, leaning heavily on Christopher Lasch, I coined the term "easygoing speciesism."
  
  The concept defines attitudes and claims-making about human-nonhuman relations and, in particular, hi...
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• The Animal Rights Movement is Three Years Young.

  Category: Animal Rights Issues
  We are about to enter the third full year since the birth of the animal rights movement. With that statement I am referring to the distinct rights-based social movement that has developed and grown since the emergence in late 2006 of philosopher Gary Francione’s Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach blog site. This...
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• 20 Good Reasons Not to Support the Pet Trade

  Category: Animal Rights Issues
  by Co-ordinating Animal Welfare A million dogs become stray every year. There are over two million stray cats. Stray dogs and cats are stolen from the streets for experimentation, dog fighting and the fur trade. Many animals are brutally treated, drowned, kicked, starved or abandoned. Millions of farm animals ...
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• 10 Reasons to Scrap the Medical Schools Dog Lab

  Category: Vivisection
  Dogs are killed in the dog lab. If the dogs come from shelters (or from dealers who often buy them from shelters), the most adoptable dogs are often taken, as they are former pets and are easy for lab personnel to handle. Before being killed, the dogs are traumatized. Shipping, caging, isolation, restraint, noise, and abnormalities in food, water, and lighting...
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• Vegetarianism and Animal Rights? No Can Do!

  Category: Animal Rights Issues
  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&...
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• A Brief Overview of the Strategies of the Animal R

  Category: Animal Rights Issues
  A Brief Overview of the Strategies of the Animal Rights Movement Barbro Nordling, Oscar Horta and Andres Cameselle.   ...
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• Behind the Label: "Animal Care Certified" Eggs

  Category: Factory Farming
  Behind the Label: "Animal Care Certified" Eggs by Peter Singer and Jim Mason...
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• A New Approach to Animal Rights Activism

  Category: Animal Rights Issues
  1 INTRODUCTION
  2 CHANGING THE MORAL CONCEPTION OF ANIMALS IN SOCIETY
  3 WELFARISM
  4 ANIMAL LOVERS
  5 CAMPAIGNING METHODS
  6 ATTACKING THE ROOT, NOT ...
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• Unnecessary Cruelty: Product Animal Testing

  Category: 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, ra...
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• Counter Arguments to Out-dated Rebuttals

  Category: Animal Rights Issues
  The issue of consumption of sentient beings is extremely contentious.
  This article will primarily focus on the reasons often given by meat eaters for their consumption, also paying highlighting the ramifications of such consumption in the world at the moment, were the current meta theory promotes large scale industrialization and has heralded in an age of economic ...
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