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Animal rights activist, hunger striker [76] Oscar Horta: 1974 Spain: Animal activist and moral philosopher who is currently a professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and one of the co-founders of the organization Animal Ethics [77] Wayne Hsiung: 1980 United States Lawyer, open rescue activist, co-founder of Direct Action ...
This list of animal rights groups consists of groups in the animal rights movement.Such animal rights groups work towards their ideals, which include the viewpoint that animals should have equivalent rights to humans, such as not being "used" in research, food, clothing and entertainment industries, and seek to end the status of animals as property. [1]
Wayne Hsiung is an American activist and attorney. [2] [3] Hsiung is a co-founder of The Simple Heart Initiative and previously led the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), which he also co-founded.
In 2021, Dover founded St. Huckleberry Animal Fund—an organization that prioritizes animal well-being through advocacy, fundraising, and more—in her hometown of Lake Charles, Louisiana, after ...
Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) is an international grassroots network of animal rights activists founded in 2013 in the San Francisco Bay Area. [1] DxE uses disruptive protests and non-violent direct action tactics, such as open rescue of animals from factory farms. [2]
In February 2018, Rosenberg was a 15-year-old student at Olive Grove Charter School in San Luis Obispo, California [1] when she was also an operator of her animal sanctuary and an animal rights activist. [1] The same year, she was an organizer of the San Luis Obispo chapter of Direct Action Everywhere. [1]
The case led to the first police raid in the United States on an animal laboratory, triggered an amendment in 1985 to the United States Animal Welfare Act, and became the first animal-testing case to be appealed to the United States Supreme Court, [3] which upheld a Louisiana State Court ruling that denied PETA's request for custody of the monkeys.
Calf rescued from a cattle company in Texas, moved to The Gentle Barn. In animal rights and welfare, open rescue is a direct action of rescue practiced by activists.Open rescue involves rescuing animals in pain and suffering, giving the rescued animals veterinary treatment and long-term care, documenting the living conditions, and ultimately publicly releasing the rescue and documentation.