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In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animalrights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?”
I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the AnimalRightsMovement. Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own? Tags: animal cruelty books. Sounds interesting.
There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan).
The animalrightsmovement, such as it is, is experiencing somewhat of a crisis of usage. I feel for the purist also with regard to the terms "animalrights" and "abolition." I have a definition of animalrights and for abolition that makes me an animalrights activist and an abolitionist.
Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animalrights activists. Over at AnimalRights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy.
Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in AnimalRights Debate? Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animalrightsmovement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans?
He said that a lot of Inuit feel betrayed by the animalrightsmovement, and by some biologists when it comes to polar bears. The polar bear is the WWF's poster animal in its campaign against global climate change, said Nirlungayuk, and "the Inuit are caught in the middle.".
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