“The relationship of homo sapiens to the other animals is one of unremitting exploitation. We employ their work; we eat and wear them. We exploit them to serve our superstitions: whereas we used to sacrifice them to our gods and tear out their entrails in order to foresee the future, we now sacrifice them to science, and experiment on their entrail in the hope — or on the mere off chance — that we might thereby see a little more clearly into the present.” Brigid Brophy stated this quote in The Sunday Times in the year of 1965. It is a common belief that Brophy’s article may have been the spark for the animal rights movement. The Animal Rights Movement is the social movement that I have decided to write about. It was believed to have started …show more content…
in the United Kingdom in the late 1960s – the early 1970s, the group that is believed to have started this movement was called the Oxford Group, and they were post graduate students in philosophy at Oxford University. Although this movement hadn’t “officially” started until the late 1960s, the first known animal protection law was in Europe in the year of 1635. This law stated that it was illegal to pull wool off of sheep, and to attach plows to the tail of horses. There had been several animal protection laws established in different parts of the world before the movement actually started, but in this paper I am going to focus on some the major organizations that have been formed. I will talk about the organizations beliefs and agendas, and how they have advanced the Animal Rights Movement. Because there are so many animal rights organizations, I will only be able to cover so many, but I will try to include a variety of organizations that have different agendas and beliefs. Listed are the organizations that I am going to cover; People for the Ethical treatment of Animals, New Harvest, Farm Animal Rights Movement, Animal Defense League, Born Free Foundation, Centre for Animals and Social Justice, 600 Million Dogs, and Compassion in World Farming. The first organization I’m going to discuss is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The mission statement for PETA is, “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world, with more than 3 million members and supporters. PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in the clothing trade, in laboratories, and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of rodents, birds, and other “pests” as well as cruelty to domesticated animals. PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.” In summary PETA is against wearing, eating, abusing, experimenting, and using animals for entertainment. PETA has made many advances for the animal rights movement. They have stopped big name companies such as Avon, Mary Kay, Coca-Cola, and Pepsi, from testing and experimenting on animals. PETA also convinced fashion designers Calvin Klein and Polo Ralph Lauren to stop selling animal fur. McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy’s have also made new rules to improve the welfare of farm animals due to PETA. After PETA lauched a campaign against General Motors for using pigs and ferrets as crash test dummies, the use of animals for crash test stopped worldwide. The achievements that I have mentioned are just a glance at all the accomplishments that PETA has achieved to advance the animal rights movement. The next organization that I am going to discuss is the New Harvest Organization. The mission statement for New Harvest is, “Our mission is to build and establish the field of cellular agriculture. Our vision is a resilient, vibrant, post-animal bioeconomy, built on a foundation of fundamental cellular agriculture research, where we harvest animal products from cell cultures, not animals, to feed a growing global population sustainably and affordably.” This foundation was founded in 2004 by Jason Mathney. After touring a farm outside of Delhi, Mathney was inspired to meet the global demand of meat in a different way. Since this organization started in 2004, it has accomplished major advancements in the animal rights movement. New Harvest has made it possible to produce eggs without farming chicken, to produce milk without cows, and to produce meat without farming animals. Not only have they accomplished making food products without farming animals, they have also accomplished making leather, rhino horn, fur, and any other animals products from cell cultures. The Third organization that I’m going to discuss is called, Farm Animal Rights Movement. The mission statement of this organization is, “FARM’s mission is to end the use of animals for food.” FARM was formed in 1976, and actually grew out of a vegetarian information service. They first started out by providing information on the benefits of eating only plant based foods. In 1981 FARM became an actual animal rights organization. Through providing information on the benefits of a plant based diet and farmed animal abuse, FARM has helped advance the animal rights movement. These statistics are one’s that FARM views as their accomplishments; More than 30 million Americans have explored a vegetarian diet, beef and veil consumption has dropped by 30 and 70 percent, many food chains now offer meatless options, public health organizations that are main stream are promoting diets that are plant based, 93 percent of consumers oppose farm animal abuse and 80 percent support government regulations. The fourth organization that I am going to discuss is called, Animal Defense League. The mission statement of this organization is, “Chartered in 1934, the Animal Defense League is a non-profit organization that is a true no-kill shelter for abandoned, abused, or neglected dogs and cats. Our mission is to enhance the quality of life for these animals by providing needed medical care, including spaying and neutering. Food, shelter, and safety are also provided – along with compassion and attention. While maintaining a healthy and loving facility, ADL consistently works to find the best possible home for each resident animal. Supported by contributions and directed by a volunteer board, the League provides programs and services which strengthen the bond between animals and people. Through grass roots advocacy, education and rescue, the organization is the leading voice for dogs and cats in crisis.” This organization started out only having a few wire chicken cages to provide shelter to stray/injured dogs and cats. It is now located on a 12 acre property with plenty of play space and kennels. The Animal Defense League has helped advance the animal rights movement by housing up to 400 animals at a time, while providing them with all the physical and emotional care needed, and by never euthanizing their animals for the sake of making more room. The fifth organization that I am going to talk about is, the Born Free Foundation.
The mission statement of this organization is, “The Born Free Foundation is a dynamic international wildlife charity, devoted to compassionate conservation and animal welfare. Born Free takes action worldwide to protect threatened species and stop individual animal suffering. Born Free believes wildlife belongs in the wild and works to phase out zoos. We rescue animals from lives of misery in tiny cages and give them lifetime care. Born Free protects lions, elephants, tigers, gorillas, wolves, polar bears, dolphins, marine turtles and many more species in their natural habitat, working with local communities to help people and wildlife live together without conflict. Our high-profile campaigns change public attitudes, persuade decision-makers and get results. Every year, Born Free helps hundreds of thousands of animals worldwide.” The Born Free Foundation was founded by Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna. Bill and Virginia were actors in the wildlife film “Born Free”. After working close to lions for this film, they made a commitment to wildlife. This organization has helped advance the success of the animal rights movement by providing sanctuaries for animals that have been neglected and abused in captivity, preparing captive animals for living in the wild and releasing them if able, and they also help support independent …show more content…
centre’s. The sixth organization that I am going to discuss is called, Centre for Animals and Social Justice. The mission statement for this organization is, “Our mission is to advance and protect the wellbeing of animals by ensuring their inclusion within the sphere of social justice.” Centre for Animals helps support the animal rights movement by researching and advocating animal’s legal/political status, institutional representation for animals, and policy strategies for animal protection. This organizations advocates through policy briefing, media articles, published articles, and book series. The seventh organization that I am going to discuss is called, 600 million dogs. . The founder of this organization, Alex Pacheco, is also a co-founder of PETA and Adopt-A-Pet.The mission statement of this organization is, “Our mission is to use science to end the killing of homeless dogs and cats by ending the overpopulation problem, by developing Spay Food … food that will only need to be eaten one time to spay a stray.” Overpopulation is the main reason dogs and cats are being killed, this organizations claims that there are about 600 million stray dogs at a time. But, this organization has a potential solution to the overpopulations of dogs and cats, which could help protect the rights of these animals. This organization wants to develop foods for animals that contain birth control formulas in them. If this organization can achieve their goal it will reduce the stray animal population without killing or surgery. The last organization that I am going to discuss is called Compassion in World Farming.
This organization is different than the ones that I discussed previously because it is not against using animals for food. Compassion in World Farming was created by a British farmer in 1967, this farmer developed Compassion in World Farming to take a stand against factory farming. The goal of this organization is not to end the use of animals for food, but to campaign against cruel factory farming practices. Compassions in World Farming as help advance the animals rights movement by achieving the following; exposing the true about modern farming systems, helped prevent the world largest foie gras factory from being built in China, their campaigning as resulted in Europe recognizing that animals are capable of feeling pain and suffering, and works with some of the world largest food companies to supply food in a more ethical and sustainable
way. The broad based movement that I selected was animal rights. I was able to trace the animal rights movement back to the early 1960s-1970s, where it was formed by a group of post graduate philosophers at Oxford University called, The Oxford Group. Since there are so many organizations and charities that support the animal rights movement, I had to settle on discussing only eight of these organizations. Since I was limited on how many animal rights organizations I would write about, I chose organizations that had different goals, agendas, and different achievements that have helped advance the animal rights movement. The organizations that I talked about were the following; People for the Ethical treatment of Animals, New Harvest, Farm Animal Rights Movement, Animal Defense League, Born Free Foundation, Centre for Animals and Social Justice, 600 Million Dogs, and Compassion in World Farming. All of these organizations had different mission statements, beliefs, and a variety of accomplishments that helped lead to the advancement of the animal rights movement. Here is a list with of some of the accomplishments that these organizations achieved. ; Convincing companies to stop animals testing and experiments, persuading designers to stop the use of fur, producing eggs, milk , meat, and other animal products without farming animals, informing the public on benefits of a plant based diet and the abuse of farm animals, providing no-kill shelter for dogs and cats, providing sanctuaries for animals abused in captivity, advocating animal’s legal/political status, institutional representation for animals, and policy strategies for animal protection, providing food for stray animals that would make them infertile, and exposing the truth about modern factory farming. All of these organizations are diverse from one another, but they all have the goal of advancing and promoting the animal rights movement.
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There are also amazing things that they are trying to accomplish. Some of the best things that have happened recently are that has been for the animals is they have banned the import and the abuse of dogs in puppy mills (Establishment that breeds puppies, typically on an intensive basis and in conditions regarded as inhumane), banned the import, sale and the testing of animals in cosmetics in Europe and India, began transferring of 100s of chimps in labs to sanctuaries, stopped the killing of horses for human consumption, and stopped wolf hunting in Wyoming and Michigan. Those are just a few things that they have done. The list of things they are working on is very long too. They are working on protecting sharks from finning (the process of which people kill sharks and take the fins leaving the other parts in the ocean), elephants from ivory poachers (people who illegally hunt, and kill, elephants just for their ivory tusks), and even are saving Rhinos’ from horn trade. They also get companies to help raise awareness like Nestle. Nestle now has adopted amazing reforms for farm animals. The Humane Society even has created a big cat habitat for the tigers that were involved in trades. They are trying to put a stop to all the animal fighting clubs too. The Humane Society has worked so hard to provide more care to animals than any other organization in the world. They have helped, even saved more animals than you could imagine.
...nimal rights yet I do question myself where to draw the line. I do not condone violence or harm against animals, yet I shudder at the thought of a mice plague and feel saddened by the extinction of our native animals by ‘feral’ or pest species. Is it right to kill one species to save another? I am appalled by the idea of ‘circus’ animals yet I will attend the horse races every summer for my entertainment. I think Tom Regan’s argument and reasoning for animal rights was extremely effective at making whoever is reading the essay question his or her own moral standards. Reading the essay made me delve into my own beliefs, morals and values which I think is incredibly important. To form new attitudes as a society it is important we start questioning how we view the lives of others, do we see animals as a resource to be exploited or as equals with rights just like we do?
The campaign against Whole Foods and Chipotle for allowing factory farm to continue that killing of animals is what ‘Direct Action Everywhere’ is fighting against to inform the general population that there is an issue with “humanely” killing animals for consumption. Direct Action Everywhere’s is an organization whose “mission is to empower activists to take strong and confident action wherever animas are being denigrated, enslaved, or killed, and create a world where animals liberation is a reality.”
2. There have been people who cared about animal rights in the past. In the 18th century, there were writers and poets that displayed their feelings on that topic in their works. One of them, Jeremy Bentham, one said,
In his Meditations, Rene Descartes argues that animals are purely physical entities, having no mental or spiritual substance. Thus, Descartes concludes, animals can’t reason, think, feel pain or suffer. Animals, are mere machines with no consciousness. Use the Internet to explore the issue of animal rights. Investigate the legacy left by Rene Descartes concerning the moral status of animals.
As an advocate of animal rights, Tom Regan presents us with the idea that animals deserve to be treated with equal respect to humans. Commonly, we view our household pets and select exotic animals in different regard as oppose to the animals we perceive as merely a food source which, is a notion that animal rights activists
animals. If they keep the animals, then the animal will be treated as a pet or
"The Case For Animal Rights" written by Tom Regan, promotes the equal treatment of humans and non-humans. I agree with Regan's view, as he suggests that humans and animals alike, share the experience of life, and thus share equal, inherent value.
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Reviews and research reports are available. Anthrozoös, 8, 132-142. Herzog, H. A. & Co., Inc. (1993) The 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of “The movement is my life”: The psychology of animal rights activism.
Adams). Derrida maintains “meat eating is not a simple, natural phenomenon, but is irreducibly linked in our culture to masculinity along multiple material, ideological, and symbolic lines” (quoted in Adams). Despite the absence of “real” meat, the patriarchal myth of masculinity remains on its website: “men are strong, men need to be strong”, thus men need vegan bacon. With this in mind, PETA’s use of sexually explicit and misogynistic ads makes sense. The group is attempting to reach male meat eaters (“Make your ‘stock’ rise”) and assume the familiar patriarchal subject cannot and should not change. The reiteration of such advertisements show that apparently you have to keep participating in the traditional construction of maleness
21 Sept. 2011. Freeman, Carrie. The Packwood. " Framing Animal Rights in the "Go Veg" Campaigns of U.S. Animal Rights Organizations.
In a recent edition of a local magazine, PETA, a group for the ethical treatment of animals, called its readers to live healthy lives, prevent climate change, and save animals by eating a plant-based diet. To support its argument, the magazine, Vegan Starter Kit, offered statistics that proved the health and environmental benefits of a Vegan diet. More significantly, the magazine argued that animals are more than objects and, thus, deserve fair treatment. The crucial element of this argument is whether or not animals have rights. If animals have dignity to that of humans, then the government would be obliged to recognize that animals, with such a dignity, have certain rights.