Animal liberation movement

The animal liberation movement or animal rights movement (sometimes called the animal personhood movement or animal advocacy movement), is a social movement. It is made up of activists, academics, lawyers, campaigns, and organized groups who oppose the use of non-human animals for any reason (in research, as food, as clothing, or as entertainment).

History

Further information: Cruelty to animals and animal rights

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In some form or another, the concept of animal rights has been around for thousands of years.

Eastern world

Ahiṃsā, meaning non-violence, is a central principle of Eastern religions such as Buddhism, Taoism, and Jainism.

Jainism stresses non-cruelty towards animals. It doesn't allow its followers to work at zoos, cut trees, or use any fabrics which are produced through harming other living beings (including silk).

In Islam, cruelty towards any animal is a punishable sin.

Western world

Within Europe and North America, there were many precursors of the modern-day animal rights movement.

The first animal cruelty legislation was passed in 1635. The law made it illegal to tear wool off of living sheep.

In 1822 Richard Martin, known as “Humanity Dick”, passed Martin’s Act aimed at preventing cruelty towards cattle. Martin went on to be one of the founding members of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the world’s first animal welfare charity, in 1824.

Animal Liberation Movement Media

• Activists protesting outside the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus at the Civic Coliseum in Knoxville, Tennessee

• Philosopher Peter Singer

• Animal rights philosopher Tom Regan.

• Banner carried during the Animal Liberation March in Warsaw in 2022

• Anarchists and anti fascists protesting for animal liberation.

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  A fire, claimed by the Oxford Arson Squad, caused £500,000 damage to Londbridges boathouse, Oxfordshire on 4 July 2005.

Further reading

• , undated, retrieved September 4, 2005
• "Burning Rage" Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine by Ed Bradley, CBS 60 Minutes, November 5, 2005
• "FBI, ATF address domestic terrorism", by Terry Frieden, CNN, May 19, 2005
• Animal Liberation Through Trade Unions? Archived 2006-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
• Allegations of sexism within the animal liberation movement Archived 2006-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
• Lawrence Finsen and Susan Finsen, The Animal Rights Movement in America: From Compassion to Respect (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994). ISBN 0-8057-3884-3
• Gary L. Francione, Rain without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996). ISBN 1-56639-461-9
• Harold D. Guither, Animal Rights: History and Scope of a Radical Social Movement (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998). ISBN 0-8093-2199-8
• James M. Jasper and Dorothy Nelkin, The Animal Rights Crusade: The Growth of a Moral Protest (New York: The Free Press, 1992). ISBN 0-02-916195-9
• Peter Singer, Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement (Lanham, MD: Bowman & Littlefield, 1998). ISBN 0-8476-9073-3

Other websites

• Brute Ethics: Archived 2020-11-12 at the Wayback Machine animal ethics encyclopedia
• Cruelty-Free Kitty a website that discusses products and weather or not they test on animals or not