1. How to Do Animal Rights - Clever Hans the Counting Horse
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Clever Hans the Counting Horse
Snappy Page EssenceClever Hans teaches us not to assign attributes to animals that they do not possess, an important anthropomorphic lesson about animal-human relations.
Clever Hans was a European
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2. How to Do Animal Rights - Fur Brushes & Bows
by gently plucking happy horses' tails. But the horse hair industry needs big quantities to satisfy the music industry and because horse hair is used for more than making bows. Most bow hair comes from the tails of horses slaughtered in
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3. How to Do Animal Rights - Foxhunting
Injured Hounds & Horses
Claim: Hounds get injured or killed on busy roads and railway lines and Horses are injured jumping barriers. Huntsmen abuse and whip their hounds to control them.
Claim: Most injuries to hounds and Horses
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4. How to Do Animal Rights - Universal Declaration on Animals
and Practical Treatise on Horses and the Moral Duties of Man Towards Brute Creation , 1796, vol 1, ch 3, p123. T N Longman: London.
The 20th century saw a number of international declarations supporting animal rights. Perhaps the most
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5. How to Do Animal Rights - Predation
who have to kill prey - like horses, cattle, deer and seals - so that they can eat and survive.
Even though humans also kill animals for food, they held a widespread attitude that if the aim of morality is to reduce suffering, then predation is
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6. How to Do Animal Rights - Author - Playwright
though not for the masses of horses, who died of infections, exhaustion and injuries; Britain alone lost nearly half a million horses, one horse for every two men (R Holmes. The Oxford Companion to Military History . 2001:417).
Morpurgo (b
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7. How to Do Animal Rights - Zoophilia
beast partners are dogs, horses, cows and sheep, probably because of their prevalence and relatively submissive behaviour as domesticated animals. Zoophilia is from the Greek zoon - animal, and philia - lover.
Illustrations from early
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8. How to Do Animal Rights - Zoos
the tarpan (Przewalski horse) to the Mongolian steppes and the field cricket to Britain. But these exceptions, although important, do not justify the captivity of a million other animals at zoos. In fact, removing rare animals from the wild
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9. How to Do Animal Rights - Stop Calling Animals It
an it ? A chimpanzee, horse, cat, cow or a mouse is as much a he or she as is a human. Calling an animal an it makes him inanimate material, a depersonalised object. As the philosopher Jeremy Bentham said:
"animals...stand
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10. How to Do Animal Rights - Soul & Animals
animals.
Horse head in jade from a tomb, possibly Han dynasty. The idea of immortality is worldwide. People in China sometimes placed aesthetic objects in tombs believing the burial place was the home for the soul and objects
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