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I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animalrightsmovement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc. Tags: activism musings animalrightsanimal welfare.
But prejudices die hard, all the more so when, as in the present case, they are insulated by widespread secular customs and religious beliefs, sustained by large and powerful economic interests, and protected by the common law. The animalrightsmovement is not for the faint of heart. Still, it can make a contribution.
".prejudices die hard, all the more so when they are insulated by widespread secular customs and religious beliefs, sustained by large and powerful economic interests, and protected by the common law. The animalrightsmovement is not for the faint heart." --Tom Regan.
In his book Rattling the Cage , Wise persuasively argued that justice entitles chimpanzees and bonobos to legal personhood and to the fundamental legal rights of bodily integrity and bodily liberty. Wise taught AnimalRightsLaw at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, John Marshall Law School, and Lewis & Clark Law School.
There is no inconsistency in rejecting plant rights while accepting animalrights. If Smith thinks that plant rights and animalrights stand or fall together, then he is confused, for there is a morally relevant difference between plants and animals, namely, that only the latter are sentient.
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