Advocates of animal rights believe that many or all sentient animals have moral worth that is independent of their utility for humans, and that their most basic interests—such as in avoiding suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings. They employ a variety of methods including direct action to oppose animal agriculture. Many animal rights advocates argue that non-human animals should be regarded as persons whose interests deserve legal protection.[1]
Background
The animal rights movement emerged in the 19th century, focused largely on opposition to vivisection, and in the 1960s the modern movement sprang up in England around the Hunt Saboteurs Association. In the 1970s, the Australian and American philosophers Peter Singer and Tom Regan began to provide the movement with its philosophical foundations. Singer argued for animal liberation on the basis of utilitarianism, first in 1973 in The New York Review of Books and later in his Animal Liberation (1975), while Regan developed a deontological theory of animal rights in several papers from 1975 onwards, followed by The Case for Animal Rights (1983).[2] A distinction persists within the movement—based on the utilitarian–deontological divide—between those who seek incremental reform, a position known as animal protectionism, and those on the abolitionist side, who argue that reform that aims to regulate, rather than abolish, the property status of animals is counterproductive.[3]
Historically speaking, it can be argued that the genesis of the animal rights movement was in India given the impact that both Buddhism and Jainism had on people in India and the neighbouring countries in Asia. The country with the largest number and highest percentage of vegetarians is India. Buddhism among the global religions is an animal rights religion par excellence. It has long subscribed to the belief that all life forms including that of non-human animals are sacred and deserving of respect, and extolls kindness and compassion as utmost virtues worthy of cultivation. Buddhism unreservedly embraces all living beings in its ethical cosmology without discrimination on grounds of species, race, or creed. Buddhist tenets—including the first precept, "Do not kill"—extend to both human and non-human sentient beings. The Buddha was so adamant and protective of the more vulnerable members of the moral community—namely the animals—that, as recorded in Dhammapada, he declared: "He who has laid aside the cudgel that injures any creature whether moving or still, who neither slays nor causes to be slain—him I call an Arya (Noble person)." The earliest reference to the idea of non-violence to animals (pashu-ahimsa), apparently in a moral sense, is in the Kapisthala Katha Samhita of the Yajurveda (KapS 31.11), a Hindu text written about the 8th century BCE.[4] Several Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist texts appearing in the following centuries, including the Tamil moral texts of the Tirukkural and the Naladiyar,[5][6] emphasize on ahimsa and moral vegetarianism, which is equated to today's veganism.[7]
List
The following is a list of animal rights advocates from all positions within the movement, from academics to activists.
Co-founder and President of One Step for Animals, Senior Media Relations Specialist for The Good Food Institute, vegan, co-author of The Animal Activist's Handbook (2009)
Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, co-founder with Jane Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Mink liberator, twice indicted on Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act charges. Served two years in federal prison for liberating 5,740 mink from U.S fur farms.
Founder and Executive Director of Responsible Policies for Animals,[36] a unique national educational nonprofit organization based in Glenside, Pennsylvania.
Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law & Philosophy at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, leading abolitionist, author of Animals, Property, and the Law (2005)
Vegan activist, speaker, author of How to Create a Vegan World: a Pragmatic Approach, and blog The Vegan Strategist, co-founder of the Center for Effective Vegan Advocacy (CEVA) and ProVeg International
Co-founder and executive director of Vegan Outreach, vegan, author of Vitamin B12: Are You Getting It? and Staying Healthy On Plant-Based Diets, Animal Rights Hall of Fame member
Essayist, historian and author of Animal radical: Histoire et sociologie de l'antispécisme ("Animal radical: The history and sociology of antispeciesism")
Animal rights activist, European director of the Animals and Society Institute, former national director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (1987–1992), campaigns officer for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (1981–1985), and national organizer for Compassion in World Farming (1976–1978), for which he remains a consultant. Founder of the Animal Rights Network (ARN), the world's largest library on animal rights, which became the Animals and Society Institute. Author of Growl: Life Lessons, Hard Truths, and Bold Strategies from an Animal Advocate. Lantern Books, 2013.
Actress, dancer, animal rights activist, and founder of the Genesis Awards for producing outstanding works which raise public awareness of animal issues
^Taylor, Angus. Animals and Ethics: An Overview of the Philosophical Debate. Broadview Press, 2009, p. 7ff.
^Finsen, Susan and Finsen, Lawrence. "Animal rights movement," in Marc Bekoff (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare. Greenwood, 2009.
For more about the history of the ideas, see Kean, Hilda. Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800. Reaktion Books, 1998.
Also see:
Singer, Peter. "Animal liberation", The New York Review of Books, Volume 20, Number 5, 5 April 1973.
"Food for Thought", letter from David Rosinger and a reply from Peter Singer, The New York Review of Books, Volume 20, Number 10, 14 June 1973.
Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation New York Review/Random House, 1975.
^Boggan, Steve. "Money talks", The Guardian, 1 June 2006.
^Ball, Matt. "Living and working in defense of animals," in Peter Singer (ed). In Defense Of Animals: The Second Wave. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006.
^Balluch, Martin. "How Austria Achieved a Historic Breakthrough for Animals," in Peter Singer (ed). In Defense Of Animals: The Second Wave. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006.
^Sunstein, Cass R. "Introduction: What are Animal Rights?," in Sunstein, Cass R. and Nussbaum, Martha (ed.). Animal rights. Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 3–4; also see Francione, Gary. "Animals—Property or Persons", p. 139, footnote 78, in the same volume.
For the quote, see Regan, Tom. The Case for Animal Rights. University of California Press, 1983, p. 95.
^Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement, David Naguib Pellow, University of Minnesota Press 2014, ISBN9781452943046
^Linzey, Andrew. "Dowding, Lady Muriel," in Marc Bekoff (ed.). Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare. Greenwood, 1998, p. 139.
^Kean, Hilda. (23 September 2004). "Drakoules [née Lambe; other married name Lewis], Alice Marie (c. 1850–1933), humanitarian and campaigner for animal welfare". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 30 December 2017, see link
^Dunayer, Joan. Animal Equality : Language and Liberation. Ryce Pub, 2001.
^Rollin, Bernard E. "Ethics, animal welfare and ACUCs," in John P. Gluck, Tony DiPasquale, F. Barbara Orlans. Applied Ethics in Animal Research. Purdue University Press, 2002, p. 114.
^"Frequently Asked Questions"Archived 10 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine, The Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute. Retrieved 25 May 2012: "By any reasonable definition chimpanzees should be categorized as a people."
Fouts, Roger and Mills, Stephen Tukel. Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees. Morrow, William, & Co., Inc., 1997.
^McGinn, Colin. "Eating animals is wrong", London Review of Books, 24 January 1991. McGinn, Colin. Moral Literacy or How to Do the Right Thing, ch. 2, "Animals," pp. 18-29, Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1992.
^Rachels, James. Created From Animals. Oxford University Press, 1990/.
^Regan, Tom. The Case for Animal Rights. University of California Press, 1983.
^Li, Peter J. "China: Animal rights and animal welfare" in Marc Bekoff (ed.). Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare. Greenwood, 2009, pp. 119–120.
^Rollin, Bernard E. Animal Rights & Human Morality. Prometheus Books, 2006.
Rollin, Bernard E. "Teleology and telos," in Marc Bekoff (ed.). Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare. Greenwood, 2009, p. 554.
^Rosebraugh, Craig. The Logic of Political Violence: Lessons in Reform and Revolution. Arissa Media Group, 2003.
^Godlovitch, Stanley; Godlovitch, Roslind; and Harris, John. Animals, Men and Morals: An Inquiry into The Maltreatment of Non-humans. Grove Press, 1974.
^Spira, Henry and Singer, Peter. "Ten Points for Activists" in Singer, Peter (ed.). In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave. Blackwell, 2006, introductory note by Peter Singer, pp. 214–215.
Singer, Peter. Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement. Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.
Francione, Gary. Rain without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement. Temple University Press, 1995, chapter 3.
^Spira, Henry and Singer, Peter. "Ten Points for Activists" in Singer, Peter (ed.). Growl: Life Lessons, Hard Truths, and Bold Strategies from an Animal Advocate. Lantern Books, 2013
Singer, Peter. Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement. Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.
Francione, Gary. Rain without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement. Temple University Press, 1995, chapter 3.
^Steiner, Gary. Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship. Columbia University Press, 2008.
^Stephens, William O. "Five Arguments for Vegetarianism", Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Vol 1, Number 4, 1994, pp. 25–39.
^Strindlund, Pelle. "Butchers' Knives into Pruning Hooks: Civil Disobedience for Animals," in Peter Singer (ed.). In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave. Blackwell, 2006.
Sztybel, David. "René Descartes," "Distinguishing Animal Rights from Animal Welfare," and "Jainism" in Marc Bekoff (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare. Greenwood, 2009.
^Finsen, Lawrence and Finsen, Susan. The Animal Rights Movement in America. Twayne Publishers, 1994, p. xiv.
^Donovan, Josephine. "Animal Rights and Feminist Theory," in Josephine Donovan, Carol J. Adams, The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics: A Reader. Columbia University Press, 2007, p. 81.
Maria Lauret, "Alice Walker's Life and Work: The Essays" in Harold Bloom, Alice Walker. Infobase Publishing, 2002, p. 84.
Walker, Alice. Preface to Marjorie Spiegel, The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery. New Society Publishers, 1988.
Bring, Ellen. "Moving Toward Coexistence: An Interview with Alice Walker," Animals' Agenda, April 1988.
Walker, Alice. "Am I Blue?", Ms. magazine, July 1986.
^"Leaders", Canada Votes 2006, accessed 21 May 2012.
^Wise, Steven M. Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals. Perseus Books, 2000.
Wise, Steven M. Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights. Perseus Publishing, 2002. Wise, Steven M. An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape, Da Capo Press, 2009.
^Wolf, Ursula. Das Tier in der Moral. Vittorio Klosterman, 1990.
Wolf, Ursula. "Tierversuche als ethisches Problem," in Hans-Georg Ziebertz. Ethik und Unterricht. Luchterhand, 1991.
Zephaniah, Benjamin. Foreword in Mann, Keith. From Dusk 'til Dawn: An Insider's View of the Growth of the Animal Liberation Movement. Puppy Pincher Press, 2007.
Further reading
Beauchamp, Tom and Frey, R.G. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2011.
Bekoff, Marc (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare. Greenwood, 2009.
Linzey, Andrew (ed.). Animal Encyclopedia. University of Princeton Press (forthcoming).
Linzey, Andrew (ed.). The Global Guide to Animal Protection. University of Illinois Press (forthcoming).
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