Book Chronicles History of Animal Rights
Critter News
JANUARY 9, 2009
The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA by Norm Phelps came out in 2007. Tags: animal rights. Worth a look.
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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"
Animal Person
APRIL 5, 2011
A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. would call HSUS an animal rights group (after all, HSUS doesn't even do that).
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Air Canada To Stop Shipping Lab Primates
Critter News
JANUARY 20, 2012
Animal advocacy groups have been lobbying for this for a while. Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories. Excellent news! Thank you Air Canada!
On "Animal Activism"
Animal Person
MAY 23, 2009
I notice that if I use "animal rights activist" or anything with the word "rights" in it, because it's loaded and misunderstood, my listener often has an immediate bias of some kind. People have a relationship, whether or not they are aware, to the term "animal rights." And not necessarily for animals.
Tom Regan (1938-2017), R.I.P.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 18, 2017
Yesterday, the world lost its most powerful voice for animal rights, Tom Regan. No one has done more to explain what "animal rights" means and why animals have rights than Tom Regan. CAF’s grants help make possible the next generation of animal rights scholarship and artistry.
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