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It fueled me to become more politically engaged and advocate for stronger animal cruelty laws, like a bipartisan piece of legislation, the ACE (Animal Cruelty Enforcement) Act, co-sponsored by ...
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]
The animal rights movement, sometimes called the animal liberation, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement that advocates an end to the rigid moral and legal distinction drawn between human and non-human animals, an end to the status of animals as property, and an end to their use in the research, food, clothing, and entertainment industries.
Philosopher, vegan and animal activist [124] Jill Phipps: 1964–1995 England Animal rights activist, campaigner against live export [125] Joaquin Phoenix: 1974 Puerto Rico (United States) Actor, animal rights activist, narrator of Earthlings (2005) and Dominion (2018) [126] James Rachels: 1941–2003 United States Philosopher [127] Tom Regan ...
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]
Jake Conroy is an American animal rights activist and vegan [1] who was involved with Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), [2] [3] an international campaign to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an animal-testing company based in the UK and US, for which he designed and maintained the SHAC websites.
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.
Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) is an international nonprofit organization working to promote a vegan lifestyle and animal rights through public education and grass roots outreach. [1] It operates ten national and international programs from its headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland .