1. How to Do Animal Rights - Violence or Nonviolence
the mechanisms for harming animals. Harms must be countered with technology to make effective, inexpensive alternatives, like:
animal eating: invent synthetic but realistically satisfying meat.
animal experimenting: devise superior
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2. How to Do Animal Rights - Animal Ethics
and right to each other. Animal ethics is the same but includes Animals. Robert Garner in his book Animal Ethics says "Animal ethics seeks to examine beliefs that are held about the moral status of non-human Animals." (2). You can define
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3. How to Do Animal Rights - Animal Rights
relative.
1. Relative Animal Rights
We should avoid causing Animals 'unnecessary' suffering, but human welfare is more important than Animal welfare and we should overrule the interests (rights) of Animals if we have good reason to do so.
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4. How to Do Animal Rights - Campaigning
Sentience vs non-sentient animals.
Speciesism vs anthropocentrism.
animals as property, legal status as objects.
Exploitation of animals for food, experimentation, trade.
animal rights vs animal welfare vs nature conservation.
Practical
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5. How to Do Animal Rights - Factory Farming
factory farms can attend the animals more closely than animals wandering about on traditional farms, so that sick animals are treated faster.
Claim: Workers on factory farms are swamped by massive numbers of animals. They cannot and do not try
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6. How to Do Animal Rights - Zoos
captivity of a million other animals at zoos. In fact, removing rare animals from the wild to stock zoos can influence the survival of the animals' wild population. The major zoos today breed most of their animals from existing zoo-held animals but
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7. How to Do Animal Rights - Philosopher
responsibly?
Where does animal rights fit in to all this? animal rights is a part of the practical field of animal ethics. animal ethics examines beliefs that are held about the moral status of animals. But animal ethics does not presume that
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8. How to Do Animal Rights - Public & School Speaker
to the Renaissance condemn animals?
Are animal rightists anti-human?
Is factory farming moral farming?
What is animal testing and is it good for people?
Why promote animal rights?
How does property status affect animals?
Is
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9. How to Do Animal Rights - Animal-friendly Traveller
endorsed by the Farm Animal Welfare Council, set up by the British government to advise it (see Chapter 8: The Five Freedoms). The Five Freedoms are so basic and applicable to Animals used in trade that they serve for any Animal, not just
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10. How to Do Animal Rights - Personal Activist
are into cutting up real animals to ‘dissect’ animals virtually by computer program instead. And ask your school not to keep animals on the premises for educating the children/students.
14. Make Menus
Ask for more animal-friendly
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