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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]
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]
He absconded during the trial, and was on the run for two years, before being apprehended and serving his sentence. [1] After his release in 1990, he began an academic study of animal protectionism and social movements, obtaining his PhD in 2005 on the subject of human/non-human relations.
Bob Barker’s decades of animal rights activism are being honored by the marine life-protection nonprofit Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which has named a new anti-poaching boat after the ...
Dover’s kitten, Huckleberry, was the target of a hate crime in 2018; meanwhile, the Covid-19 pandemic and four natural disasters were creating an animal welfare crisis in the Southwest part of ...
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.
Image credits: tashpeterson The judge ruled that the 31-year-old activist and her partner Jack Higgs used “provocative and inflammatory” language towards Dr. Kay McIntosh and her husband Andrew.
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 ...