1. How to Do Animal Rights - Religious Tradition
do not sanction deliberate cruelty to animals.
Photo: Andriy Makukha (Amakukha).
Modern Interpretation
A more modern interpretation of Christian thought is that:
Humans have a responsibility from God to care for
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2. How to Do Animal Rights - Direct Action
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
SHAC (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty) is an ongoing campaign to close down Huntingdon Life Sciences, a company that carries out tests on animals, situated north of London, Britain, with an important branch
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3. How to Do Animal Rights - Richard Martin
Kingdom parliament to outlaw cruelty to animals. They also honour him as a leading founder of the Royal Society for the Prevention of cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). Founded in 1824 the RSPCA was the modern world’s first animal welfare organisation.
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4. How to Do Animal Rights - Animal-friendly Traveller
we accept as an excuse for cruelty the assumed sanctity of another country’s customs and culture. Each of us is responsible for ensuring as far as we can that our behaviour does not contribute to animal suffering, even when we are abroad. We
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5. How to Do Animal Rights - Animal Lawyer
and ranges across cases of cruelty, criminal action and negligence, specific contracts and property rights, corporate and criminal matters, and governmental, constitutional and international rulings. The animals who may benefit from the law are
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6. How to Do Animal Rights - John Lawrence
recounts wanton cruelty he saw around him - horses thrashed with whips, cattle with tongues cut out and sheep with feet cut off (all alive) - and says,
I therefore propose, that the Rights of Beasts be formally acknowledged by the
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7. How to Do Animal Rights - Universal Declaration on Animals
acts of flagrant and wanton cruelty, whether committed by their owners or others."
John Lawrence , A Philosophical and Practical Treatise on Horses and the Moral Duties of Man Towards Brute Creation , 1796, vol 1, ch 3, p123. T N Longman:
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8. How to Do Animal Rights - The Law: US & Britain
and Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC). The FBI sees these groups as 'special interest extremist movements'. The FBI say that from January 1990 to June 2004 these extremists claimed over 1,200 events causing the loss of millions of
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9. How to Do Animal Rights - Undercover Investigator
that violated US animal cruelty laws. He called in the police and the experiments were stopped, resulting in the first impoundment of animals from a US laboratory. The issue went to the US Supreme Court and the news media dubbed it the case of
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10. How to Do Animal Rights - Ingrid Newkirk
handling cases of animal cruelty. After sliding towards vegetarianism for some years she finally committed herself one day when (with a pork chop scheduled for supper) she saved a starving pig, the only survivor of animals abandoned at a farm.
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