Animal Rights Challenge ~ Kim Stallwood

[Carolyn Bailey]

Kim Stallwood gave a presentation, “The Animal Rights Challenge,” at the Minding Animals Conference in London on December 5, 2008. The talk is serialized in five parts.

The objective of this presentation is to make the case that the animal rights challenge is to establish the moral and legal status of animals as a public policy issue. Presently, animal rights is primarily framed
as an optional lifestyle choice issue. Notwithstanding important
philosophical differences, Kim uses animal rights in this paper to mean
all pro-animal advocacy ideological positions. "I define the animal
rights movement as a social movement whose constituent organizations
range in their ideological perspectives. I critique the movement’s
traditional activities, propose a five-part evaluation process and
offer practical, measurable steps to making animal rights a mainstream
political issue."

http://www.kimstallwood.com/animal-rights-challenge/