All Discussions Tagged 'rights' - Animal Rights Zone2024-03-28T09:26:51Zhttp://arzone.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=rights&feed=yes&xn_auth=noLegal Rights and Moral Rights ~ Tom Regantag:arzone.ning.com,2016-01-13:4715978:Topic:1526112016-01-13T07:55:44.306ZAnimal Rights Zonehttp://arzone.ning.com/profile/admin
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: impact, chicago;">Legal Rights and Moral Rights</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">By Professor Tom Regan…</span><br></br><br></br><br></br></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: impact, chicago;" class="font-size-7">Legal Rights and Moral Rights</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><strong><span class="font-size-4">By Professor Tom Regan</span><br/><br/><br/></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Philosophers distinguish between legal rights and moral rights. Legal rights are liberties or protections individuals have because some law says they do. For example, Americans eighteen years of age or older have a legal right to vote. For obvious reasons, legal rights do not come into being on their own; they have to be created through law, whether (here are two ways) by the whims of a despot or by the will of a democratically elected assembly. So one defining characteristic of legal rights is that they are made by human beings; as such, humans can unmake them too.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">This leads to another defining characteristic: legal rights often vary from nation to nation, and within the same nation at different times. For example, the legal rights Americans have to religious freedom and to a trial by a jury of one’s peers are not universal among all nations. And the right to vote possessed by blacks and women in America today is the same right that was systematically denied to them throughout much of our nation’s history.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Two of the defining characteristics of moral rights (others will be discussed below) contradict what has just been said about legal rights. First, humans do not make moral rights, nor can we unmake them. Second, moral rights are not limited to the citizens of a particular nation, at a particular time. Moral rights (for example, our rights to life, liberty, and bodily integrity) are universal and timeless.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Belief in moral rights is pervasive throughout representative democracies today. The framers of America’s Declaration of Independence certainly believed in them; they maintained that the sole reason for having a government in the first place is to protect citizens in the possession of their rights, rights that, because they are independent of, and more basic than, legal rights, have the status of moral rights.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">As an advocate of moral rights, I take my stand with America’s founders. The young men who were sent to fight in Vietnam had moral rights, including the rights to life, liberty, and bodily integrity. So did the Vietnamese children who were killed and maimed in the conflict. And each had these rights whether the US government, or any government for that matter, recognized them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">But what does it mean to say, “They had rights”? Suppose we answer by saying, “Well, the rights they had were moral rights, which are universal and timeless.” This is true, no doubt, but it does not take us very far. What else can we say about moral rights to help us understand what they are and why they matter? There are six additional defining characteristics that help provide an answer.<br/><br/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><strong>1. RIGHTS AND DUTIES: TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">The first thing to notice is the relationship between moral duties, on the one hand, and moral rights, on the other. Some of our duties are so important, they carry rights with them. The duties owed are one side of the coin; the rights possessed are the other side. Let me explain.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">When we say something is a moral duty, we are saying that it is something we should do, something it would be wrong for us not to do. Of course, we might not to do it. Limited creatures that we are, there are many things we should do that we fail to do. Still, everyone understands the idea of having a duty (to tell the truth, for example, or to keep one’s word). When we ask how to understand our most important duties, part of the answer is simple. Some of our duties are so important they give rise to rights.<br/><br/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><strong>2. MORAL STATUS: “NO TRESPASSING”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Another defining characteristic of moral rights concerns moral status. Possession of moral rights confers a distinctive moral status on those who have them. To possess these rights is to have a kind of protective moral shield, something we might picture as an invisible “No Trespassing” sign.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">What does this invisible sign prohibit? Two things, in general. First, others are not morally free to harm us; to say this is to say that others are not free to take our life or injure our body as they please. Second, others are not morally free to interfere with our free choice; to say this is to say that others are not free to limit our free choice as they please. In both cases, the “No Trespassing” sign is meant to protect our most important goods (our life, our body, our liberty) by morally limiting the freedom of others.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Does this mean that it must always be wrong to take someone’s life, injure them, or restrict their liberty? No. When people exceed their rights by violating ours, we act within our rights if we respond in ways that can harm or limit the freedom of the violators. For example, suppose a mugger attacks you; then you certainly act within your rights if you use physical force sufficient to defend yourself, even if this harms your assailant.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Thankfully, in the world as we find it, such cases are the exception, not the rule. Most people most of the time act in ways that respect the rights of other human beings. But even if the world happened to be different in this respect, the central point would be the same: what we are morally free to do when someone violates our rights does not translate into a more general freedom to violate their rights.<br/><br/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><strong>3. MORAL WEIGHT: “TRUMP”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Every serious advocate of human rights not only believes that individual moral rights are important; more, we believe that our rights are the most important moral consideration we can think of. To use an analogy from the card game Bridge, individual rights are “trump.” Here is what this means.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Bridge is played by four people using an ordinary deck of playing cards, fifty-two cards in all, thirteen of each suit: clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades. There are thirteen plays (“tricks”) in each hand, with the most powerful card winning each trick. Ordinarily, the winning card is the highest card of the same suit. The ace of clubs beats every other club, the ace of diamonds beats every other diamond, and so on. However, through an elaborate ritual of bidding, players can decide that a given suit is the trump suit for a particular hand. Once this is decided, the cards in the trump suit acquire added power.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">For example, suppose hearts are trump. And suppose the first three cards played are the queen of spades, the king of spades, and the ace of spades. You are the next player. You have no spades. However, you do have the two of hearts. Because hearts are trump in this hand, your lowly two of hearts beats the queen of spades, beats the king of spades, even beats the ace of spades. This is how powerful trump is in the game of Bridge.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">The analogy between trump in Bridge and individual rights in morality should be reasonably clear. There are many different considerations that are relevant to moral decision-making. How will we be affected personally as a result of making one decision or another? What about our family, friends, neighbors, fellow Americans? It is not hard to write a long list. When we say, “rights are trump,” what we mean is that our duty to respect the rights of individuals is the most important consideration in “the game of morality,” so to speak. We mean that desirable outcomes, for ourselves or for our friends, for example, never justify violating someone’s rights. We mean the good that others derive from violating someone’s rights never justifies violating them.<br/><br/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><strong>4. MORAL RIGHTS AND MORAL EQUALITY</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">The next characteristic of moral rights concerns their equality. Moral rights are the same for all who have them, which is why no human being can justifiably be denied rights for arbitrary, prejudicial, or morally irrelevant reasons. Race is such a reason; to determine which humans have rights on the basis of race encapsulates a particularly virulent strain of prejudice. What race we are tells us nothing about what rights we have.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">The same is no less true of other differences between us. We trace our family lineage to different places, some to Ireland, some to Lithuania, others to Africa. Some people are Christians, some Jews, some Moslem. Others are agnostics or atheists. A few are very wealthy, many more, very poor. And so it goes. Our differences are many and real. There is no denying that.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Still, no one who believes in human rights thinks that these differences mark fundamental moral differences. If we mean anything by the idea of human rights, we mean that humans who have moral rights have them equally. And we have them equally regardless of our many differences, whether these concern our race, gender, intelligence, religious belief, comparative wealth, or date or place of birth, for example.<br/><br/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><strong>5. INVOKING RIGHTS: DEMANDS, NOT REQUESTS</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">A fifth characteristic of rights concerns their meaning when we invoke them. This is best understood by contrasting claims of rights with requests for charity or generosity. With regard to the latter: sometimes we ask for things we do not deserve. I want a fancy sports car. You have more than enough money to buy one for me. I confront you, saying, “Would you mind buying me a Ferrari?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">One thing about my bizarre request is abundantly clear. I am not in a position to demand that you buy me a Ferrari! Receiving a car from you — any car — is not something to which I am entitled, not something I am owed or due. Were you to present me with the car of my dreams, it would be just that: a present. Your gift would distinguish you as uncommonly generous, not uncommonly fair.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">When we invoke our rights, by contrast, we are not asking for anyone’s generosity. We are not saying, “Please, would you give me something I do not deserve?” We are not asking for any favors. On the contrary, when we invoke our rights we are demanding fair treatment, demanding that we receive what is our due. Of course, there is no guarantee that we will receive it. Law-abiding citizens have the right to demand their physical safety when they take a walk through the park, but (tragically) this is a right muggers fail to honor. Nevertheless, everyone understands that we are not asking for something we do not deserve when we take our walk, with the expectation that no one will attack us.<br/><br/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><strong>6. RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND THE DUTY OF ASSISTANCE</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">It sometimes happens that those whose rights are violated do not understand the injustice that is done to them. What sometimes happens to children as well as to those who suffer from serious mental disabilities, whatever their age, are obvious examples of how this can happen. Because of their vulnerability, these humans are easy prey for those seeking some benefit, whether personal or public. When used as means to such ends, not only are the rights of these humans violated; in addition, those of us who understand the wrong that has been done have a duty to intervene on the victims’ behalf, to stand-up and speak-out in their defense. Moreover, the duty here is itself a demand of justice, not a plea for generosity. These victims are owed assistance from us; help is something they are due, not something it would be “awfully nice” of us to render. Arguably, the less able humans are to defend their rights, the greater is our duty to do this for them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Everyone understands that there is a limit to what we can do in the name of defending the victims of injustice. We simply cannot do everything for every victim. For all of us, however, this limit is not zero. That we cannot do everything in defense of those who cannot defend themselves does not mean that we should content ourselves with doing nothing.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">This article was first published on Professor Tom Regan's website at <br/><br/></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Tom Regan is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina (USA). During his more than thirty years on the faculty, he received numerous awards for excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching; was named University Alumni Distinguished Professor; published hundreds of professional papers and more than twenty books; won major international awards for film writing and direction; and presented hundreds of lectures throughout the United States and abroad. In 2000, he received the William Quarles Holliday Medal, the highest honor NC State University can bestow on one of its faculty.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Among his books, two (<a href="http://tomregan.info/animal-rights/case-for-animal-rights/" target="_blank">The Case for Animal Rights</a> and <i>Bloomsbury’s Prophet: G. E. Moore and the Development of his Moral Philosophy</i>) were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Episode 86 features advocate and author Saryta Rodriguez.</font></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Episode 86 features advocate and author Saryta Rodriguez.</font></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Saryta Rodriguez is graduate of Columbia University (New York, USA) who is committed to social justice activism, with a focus on issues of human hunger and violence against other animals.</font></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dr. Will Tuttle spoke with Canberra Radio 2CC’s Luke Bona about his 2014 Australian Tour, and the ideas in his best-selling book <em>The World Peace Diet</em>.</font></span></p>
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<p class="first"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">“What I can do is show that within the normal range of legal discourse, the arguments for the basic legal rights of nonhuman animals exists.” - Steve Wise</span></p>
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<p class="first"></p> Thinking Critically About Animal Rights ~ Tim Giertag:arzone.ning.com,2013-02-15:4715978:Topic:1234802013-02-15T06:27:17.897ZCarolyn Baileyhttp://arzone.ning.com/profile/CarolynBailey
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>ARZone has always been supportive of critical thinking and dialoguing. Further, we believe that all individuals have different experiences and beliefs and that we come to animal advocacy and social justice for different reasons. Such reasons, sometimes due to cultural traditions, economic disadvantages, and geographical location, make it difficult for some to adopt a vegan diet.…</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><em>ARZone has always been supportive of critical thinking and dialoguing. Further, we believe that all individuals have different experiences and beliefs and that we come to animal advocacy and social justice for different reasons. Such reasons, sometimes due to cultural traditions, economic disadvantages, and geographical location, make it difficult for some to adopt a vegan diet. <br/><br/>We must respect and understand that we all have different struggles, and through challenging our own oppressive beliefs and actions and by respecting where peoples' journey for social justice takes them, we all will find a place of less violence, healing, and peace, where human and other animals, plants, air, water, and elements are not exploited or harmed.</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">To think critically about animal rights one will first acknowledge that there is nothing about the subject matter that is “off the table”. That is to say, one can’t think critically about the rights of other animals when one assumes from the outset that such rights exist. One may certainly insist that such rights exist, and further assert that all animals possess “equal inherent value”, and then do nothing more, but in so insisting and asserting, one will have abandoned the project of critical thinking with respect to the rights of other animals.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">There are people who claim to think critically about the rights of other animals who nonetheless also insist without argument that animals “have rights”. Confused as they are over the nature of rights and what it means to have them, they do little more than repeat their claims as mantras, in the hope that should they make the same claims often enough, others will have no choice but to acquiesce. I wish them all the luck in the world. Many people, as we know, are like lemmings to the sea and I suppose that some people will accept that animals have rights when they’ve heard often enough the claims that they do. It can’t be helped that most people aren’t critical thinkers. Perhaps that will redound to the benefit of animals; I doubt it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">In any case, these people who drone on about animals as “persons” who are “rights-bearers”, who think of themselves as making an argument when all they’re doing is trying to coerce the gullible, whatever else they may be doing, they aren’t thinking critically about animal rights. I suppose that such people feel good about themselves, and about their dogmatic, anti-intellectual and faith-based certainty about “moral imperatives” and other dubious notions, and I am happy for them if they do feel good. Ignorance is bliss, after all, and who am I to deny anyone their bliss?<br/><br/><br/></span></p>
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</div> Introduction to Animal Rights - David Sztybeltag:arzone.ning.com,2013-01-19:4715978:Topic:1218102013-01-19T02:14:36.872ZAnimal Rights Zonehttp://arzone.ning.com/profile/admin
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<p style="text-align: center;"></p> Jewish survivors compare animal rights and the holocausttag:arzone.ning.com,2012-11-10:4715978:Topic:1178492012-11-10T22:21:36.936ZKerry Bakerhttp://arzone.ning.com/profile/KerryBaker
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<p>Here is an article that I find quite moving. It is a courageous thing to do after surviving the holocaust to then be able to stand up for animals and state the similarities with how we treat animals in factory farming. I was pleased to see that comments posted about the article generally supported that view.…</p>
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<p>Here is an article that I find quite moving. It is a courageous thing to do after surviving the holocaust to then be able to stand up for animals and state the similarities with how we treat animals in factory farming. I was pleased to see that comments posted about the article generally supported that view.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/comparing_animal_rights_and_the_holocaust?goback=.gde_1065857_member_184185811">http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/comparing_animal_rights_and_the_holocaust?goback=.gde_1065857_member_184185811</a></p>
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<p></p> ARZone Podcast 53: David Cantor - Responsible Policies for Animalstag:arzone.ning.com,2012-09-29:4715978:Topic:1109332012-09-29T05:06:02.974ZAnimal Rights Zonehttp://arzone.ning.com/profile/admin
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Episode 53 features special guest David Cantor.</span><br></br> <br></br> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A full-time animal advocate with national organizations since 1989, in late 2002 David Cantor founded and since then has served as the Executive Director of Responsible Policies for Animals (RPA), a group that engages in what he refers to as “strict rights advocacy”. RPA rejects both the traditional animal welfare…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Episode 53 features special guest David Cantor.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A full-time animal advocate with national organizations since 1989, in late 2002 David Cantor founded and since then has served as the Executive Director of Responsible Policies for Animals (RPA), a group that engages in what he refers to as “strict rights advocacy”. RPA rejects both the traditional animal welfare strategy as well as abolitionism. Audio podcast, running time approx 48 mins.</span><br/> <br/><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Please click <a href="http://archive.org/download/ArzonePodcast53DavidCantor-ResponsiblePoliciesForAnimals/ArzonePodcast53-DavidCantor.mp3" target="_blank">H E R E</a> to listen or visit</span> <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/arzone-podcasts/id446960406" target="_blank">this webpage to subscribe using iTunes</a>,</span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and please remember to <a href="http://arzone.ning.com/page/podcasts" target="_blank">visit the podcast page</a> to view a complete listing of all ARZone podcasts.</span></span></span></p>
<p><br/> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">David believes and argues that “rights precede abolition”. RPA promotes unalienable equal basic autonomy, ecology, and dignity rights of all animals, including humans; an end to rights of corporations and a number of other initiatives and strategies.</span> <br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To learn more about the Responsible Policies for Animals (RPA) please visit the RPA website at <a href="http://www.rpaforall.org/" target="_blank">www.RPAforall.org</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rpaforall.org/"><br/></a></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To view RPA's lecture schedule for Fall 2012 please <a href="http://www.rpaforall.org/LecturesFlier_Fall2012.pdf" target="_blank">click here</a>.</span><br/></p>
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<p>This issue gets raised reasonably regularly. Here is how one vegan answered critics about keeping rescued hens.</p>
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<p>This issue gets raised reasonably regularly. Here is how one vegan answered critics about keeping rescued hens.</p>
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<p>I agree with the response given to the criticism. In addition, while we might all like to allow others to live as 'naturally' as possible we are constrained by laws and regulations specific to keeping animals, birds and reptiles. If I don't for example have a microchipped cat or dog here in Melbourne I can't register him or her. Should that animal get picked up by the council rangers he or she is under threat of being put down, so the difficulty is the risk to the animal.</p>
<p><br/>It's a bit of a Catch 22 problem in many ways. On the matter of Care2 I have noticed there is a very active bunch of trolls on that site who destroy any opportunity for objective and intelligent discussion about veganism or vegetarianism.</p> ARZone Podcast 51: Greg McFarlane - Vegan Australiatag:arzone.ning.com,2012-08-30:4715978:Topic:1081352012-08-30T01:17:36.825ZAnimal Rights Zonehttp://arzone.ning.com/profile/admin
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Episode 51 features special guest Greg McFarlane.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Greg McFarlane is the president of the Vegan Society of New South Wales, a community-based, non-profit organisation founded in 1981 in Southeastern Australia.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></br></span> <br></br> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this ARZone Podcast, Greg…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Episode 51 features special guest Greg McFarlane.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Greg McFarlane is the president of the Vegan Society of New South Wales, a community-based, non-profit organisation founded in 1981 in Southeastern Australia.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/></span> <br/> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this ARZone Podcast, Greg talks about the challenges of creating a national advocacy organization, the core influences that affect the "life cycle of a vegan", single-issue campaigns, his pragmatic approach to outreach, and much more. Audio podcast, approx 56 minutes.</span></p>
<p><br/> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Please listen <a href="http://archive.org/download/ArzonePodcast51GregMcfarlane-VeganAustralia/ArzonePodcast51-GregMcfarlane-VeganAustralia.mp3">H E R E</a>, or visit</span> <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/arzone-animal-rights-zone/id555064645" target="_blank">this webpage to subscribe using iTunes</a>, and please remember to <a href="http://arzone.ning.com/page/podcasts">visit the podcast page</a> to view a complete listing of all ARZone podcasts.</span><br/></span> <br/> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Vegan Society aims to promote veganism by encouraging the use of alternatives to all products derived wholly or partly from other animals. The Society emphasizes education, both about the rights of other animals, as well as the health and environmental benefits of veganism. In addition to his day-to-day responsibilities as president, Greg is focusing now on building a new and highly visible national vegan organization throughout Australia, scheduled to launch before the end of 2012.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/></span> <br/> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To learn more about the Vegan Society of New South Wales, please <a href="http://www.vegansocietynsw.com/vs/html/index.html" target="_blank">visit their website here</a>.</span><br/> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br/> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To read about or offer suggestions to the new national organization, Vegan Australia, <a href="http://www.veganaustralia.org.au/" target="_blank">click here</a>!</span></p>
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