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  2. The Case for Animal Rights - Wikipedia

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    The Case for Animal Rights is a 1983 book by the American philosopher Tom Regan, in which the author argues that at least some kinds of non-human animals have moral rights because they are the "subjects-of-a-life", and that these rights adhere to them whether or not they are recognized. [1]

  3. Argument from marginal cases - Wikipedia

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    The argument from marginal cases (also known as the argument from species overlap) [1] is a philosophical argument within animal rights theory regarding the moral status of non-human animals.

  4. Timeline of animal welfare and rights in the United States

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    Henry Spira founds Animal Rights International after attending a course on animal liberation given by Peter Singer. [31] 1975: Peter Singer publishes Animal Liberation, whose depictions of the conditions of animals on farms and in laboratories and utilitarian arguments for animal liberation are to have a major influence on the animal movement ...

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  6. Timeline of animal welfare and rights - Wikipedia

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    Tom Regan published The Case for Animal Rights, a highly influential philosophical argument that animals had rights (as opposed to Peter Singer's utilitarian case for animal liberation). [ 60 ] 1986

  7. Animal rights - Wikipedia

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    Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or ... and therefore only humans have rights. [13] Another argument, ... argues in The Case for Animal Rights ...

  8. Tom Regan - Wikipedia

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    Regan was the author of numerous books on the philosophy of animal rights, including The Case for Animal Rights (1983), one of a handful of studies that have significantly influenced the modern animal rights movement. In these, he argued that non-human animals are what he called the "subjects-of-a-life", just as humans are, and that, if we want ...

  9. Cat lover campaigns for animal rights in Indonesia elections

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    Activists rallied in Jakarta this month to call for a national ban on dog and cat meat trades, according to the animal welfare group The Humane Society International.