In The Longest Journey Begins with a Single Step: Promoting Animal Rights by Promoting Reform (http://www.satyamag.com/sept06/singer-friedrich.html), Peter Singer and PETA's Bruce Friedrich claim that an "odd" controversy has developed in "recent years" about whether animal advocates ought to pursue animal welfare as a means to achieve animal rights. This controversy is…

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Transcript of Rob Garner's ARZone Guest Chat

Transcript of Prof. Rob Garner’s ARZone Chat of

11 December 2010 at:

2pm US Pacific Time

5pm US Eastern…

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POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND THE LEGAL STATUS OF ANIMALS ~ Professor Robert Garner

This essay argues that the benefits of changing the legal status of animals from their current position as items of property have been exaggerated. This assertion is based on the arguments that abolishing the property status of animals is not a sufficient guarantee that they will cease to be exploited and that, whilst the abolition of animals’ property status is a necessary step towards the fulfilment of an animal rights agenda, it…

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Defending Animal Rights ~ Professor Robert Garner

IN the two decades after the second world war, animal welfare was largely absent from public discourse. Even the burgeoning environmental movement in the 1970s, in so far as it touched upon animals at

all, focused upon wild species and, more specifically, the plight of whales. Many animal protection societies still existed but they tended to be dormant, engaging in little active campaigning and relying financially on bequests rather than subscriptions from an active… Continue

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Razor Blades and Moral Philosophers ~ Tim Gier

I’ve been thinking about razor blades and moral philosophers lately.

We are all familiar, no doubt, with the case of David Jentsch, the UCLA research psychologist who allegedly received a threatening note and some razor blades supposedly coated with AIDS tainted…

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Transcript of Barbara DeGrande's ARZone Guest Chat of 4/5 December 2010

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A Vegan World in 8 Years ~ Tim Gier

Did you know that the world’s current population of human beings is about 6.7 Billion?

That’s a lot of people!

If only 1% of them are vegan, that means that there are 67 Million vegans walking the earth right now. That’s a lot of people too!

So here’s the deal. Every vegan has one year to help one other person become…

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Animal Welfare and the Moral Value of Nonhuman Animals ~ Gary. L. Francione

Abstract:

The animal welfare position, which represents the prevailing paradigm for thinking about our moral and legal obligations to nonhuman animals, maintains that animal life has a lesser value than human life and, therefore, it is morally acceptable to use animals as human resources as long as we treat them ‘humanely’ and do not inflict ‘unnecessary’ suffering on them.…

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It's Better to Kill Others ~ Tim Gier

It’s better to kill others.

That’s it in a nutshell. That’s all the argument comes down to. That’s all they have to say. There’s no other justification. There’s no other reason or rationale. That is the essence of their world view.…

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On Ex-Vegans ~ Dan Cudahy

On Variety in Meaning

As the word “vegan” has fully entered mainstream media during the past five years, it has come to have many different meanings for many different people. For some of us, “vegan” means a strong, lifelong,…

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Transcript of ARZone Open Forum 27/28 November 2010

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Peter Singer and I Agree on One Thing: Nonviolence ~ Gary Francione

Dear Colleagues:

Peter Singer recently posted the following Tweet in response to the receipt by a UCLA vivisector…

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Professor Gary Francione ~ How True Animal Rights Diverge From Animal Protection

Gary Francione, Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law & Philosophy, has written numerous books and articles on animal rights theory and animals and the law. In The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation?, just published by Columbia University Press, Francione debates Robert…

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Bad People Do Bad Things ~ Tim Gier

I had someone tell me today that they’d seen a horrific thing on TV the other day. It seems that some “native” people were doing all sorts of horrible things to some primates, vicious cruel things in fact. But, these were “bad” people, or so I was told, and the “good natives” didn’t do those sorts of things.

Good people don’t do bad things.…

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Transcript of Brandon Becker's ARZone Guest Chat of 20/21 November 2010

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Mincing The Myths ~ Barbara DeGrande

We are on a voyage to an uncharted world, trying to develop a new world paradigm, while trying to challenge the old destructive ways of thinking at every turn. When people become aware of the status of animals in the world, of their complete subjugation by human beings, the first instinct is often to find a cause and work on it. While this is an understandable impulse, it usually does little to further the cause of animal rights. These impulses tend to…

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On Self Interest ~ Dan Cudahy

Occasionally, vegan advocates are accused by non-vegans of “promoting an agenda” or “forcing our desires on others.” The implication (sometimes made explicit) is that we are promoting “our self-interest.”

The poor reasoning is that since vegans want a vegan world, and therefore strongly advocate for a vegan world, we are promoting “our self-interest” in a vegan world. What such “reasoning” fails to distinguish is 1) the vegan desire to see innocent others fulfill their crucial… Continue

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