What are rights, if not a construct of the mind? Do rights exist? Can we talk meaningfully about even human rights, never mind animal rights? Share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this! Share on Facebook Share on FriendFeed Share on Linkedin Share on Posterous share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet this! Tell a friend
“ARZone is facilitating and exacerbating the confusion about animal ethics by acting as a showcase for new welfarists, who are presented in a format that does not allow for any effective challenging of their claims.” ~ Gary Francione, writing at the Abolitionist Approach forum. In your opinion, Professor Francione, in your opinion. Now, I realize [...]
This afternoon I was reading this interesting piece by Sociologist Roger Yates on the role of “Animal Welfare” organizations and it has caused me to think about the role of advocacy in shaping responses to social movements. In the article, Dr. Yates argues that those who exploit other animals in the course of their businesses [...]
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Animal-rights theory is based on a few basic concepts, which can be stated in relatively simple terms: Nonhuman animals are like human ones in morally relevant ways and because of that, they should not be treated exclusively as the means to an end. They should not be considered as the property of others, but should [...]
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
I ventured into another forum not that long ago to meet and talk with others about veganism and animal rights. My involvement didn’t last all that long. Maybe I ought to just accept that forums and I don’t mix? I wonder what the point of many of these online communities is. The ones in which [...]
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Monday, December 27, 2010
What is a vegan? A vegan is someone who tries to live without exploiting animals, for the benefit of animals, people and the planet. Vegans eat a plant-based diet, with nothing coming from animals – no meat, milk, eggs or honey, for example. A vegan lifestyle also avoids leather, wool, silk and other animal products [...]
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Monday, December 13, 2010
Even if one’s only concern for other animals is based on the reduction of suffering, the actualization of such a reduction necessitates the elimination of the use of nonhumans as factors of production of food. To accept otherwise – to accept that we can in fact utilize nonhuman individuals as food supplying units of production [...]
Sunday, December 12, 2010
As I try to understand everything Prof. Garner said in his exchange on ARZone on Saturday Dec 11, 2010, (
Friday, December 10, 2010
In preparation for this weekend’s ARZone online chat with Professor Robert Garner, I have been reading some of his essays, although I have not yet read the new book he has co-written with Prof. Gary Francione. Garner considers himself an animal rights advocate, but rather than refer to himself as an abolitionist, a welfarist, or [...]
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
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 [...]
