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A Letter Concerning Toleration

John Locke

	The Future of the Animal Rights Movement - Summer/Fall 1995 Poultry Press
		Yet three daunting realities confront the animal rights movement: (1) the huge and expanding number of animals at our mercy on this planet; (2) the expanding global human population; and (3) the fact that the animals are not a part of the liberation movement formed on their behalf.
		At a time when entire species of animals in nature are being eliminated as a result of human pressure, the number of animals in human-created confinement systems--laboratories, factory farms, zoos, etc.--continues to grow.
		Any rebellion on the part of an individual animal, from the anguished outburst of a tormented "circus" elephant to an exhausted chicken's inability to lay enough eggs to justify her continued existence as a capital investment, is punishable by death.
	www.upc-online.org /future.html (936 words)

	Animal rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Animal rights is the concept that all or some animals are entitled to possess their own lives; that they are deserving of, or already possess, certain moral rights; and that some basic rights for animals ought to be enshrined in law.
		His 1975 book Animal Liberation argues that humans grant moral consideration to other humans not on the basis of intelligence (in the instance of children, or the mentally disabled), on the ability to moralize (criminals and the insane), or on any other attribute that is inherently human, but rather on their ability to experience suffering.
		Switzerland passed legislation in 1992 to recognize animals as beings, rather than things, and the protection of animals was enshrined in the German constitution in 2002, when its upper house of parliament voted to add the words "and animals" to the clause in the constitution obliging the state to protect the "natural foundations of life...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Animal_rights_movement (4782 words)

	Animal Aid : The Animal Rights Movement
		Animal rights has also been characterised as a forbidding creed that excludes 'ordinary' people - people who might want to begin exploring the underlying philosophy but who are not necessarily ready for wholesale changes in their lives.
		Animals who had transgressed by, for instance, causing human injury or by being 'party to' a bestial act with their owner, might be dressed in men's clothes and publicly hanged.
		Animals cannot have rights, Scruton argues, 'for you would then be forced to treat animals as members of the moral community, with the responsibilities and duties that stem from that.
	www.animalaid.org.uk /campaign/pride/intro.htm (3554 words)

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		The animal rights movement is inspired by a genuine and commendable compassion for animals that have been mistreated, exploited, and abused by human beings.
		The movement to ensure human rights is well-intentioned and has done much good, but when one loses faith in a God who "hath shewed thee, O man, what is good," then rights lose their foundation in a created Order of Being and take on a life and momentum of their own.
		The animal rights movement, despite the idealism and desirability of some of its goals, is in its theoretical and philosophical foundations, as well as in its long-range implications, a symptom of a great sociocultural change.
	www.equip.org /free/DE226.htm (4860 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - animal-rights movement
		Supporters are specifically concerned with the use of animals for medical and cosmetics testing, the killing of animals for furs, hunting for pleasure, and the raising of livestock in restrictive or inhumane quarters, so-called factory farming.
		Concern for inhumane treatment of animals has led many supporters of the movement to advocate vegetarianism.
		The movement gained support in the 1980s with increasing opposition to the commercial fur industry and objections to the indiscriminate or routine use of laboratory animals in research and testing.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/animalri.asp (406 words)

	Animal Rights FAQ - AR-Views
		Animal rights activists try to extend the human circle of respect and compassion beyond our species to include other animals, who are also capable of feeling pain, fear, hunger, thirst, loneliness, and kinship.
		AR philosophy asserts that rights are to be accorded to creatures that have the capacity to experience pain, to suffer, and to be a "subject of a life".
		The reason is that it is possible to argue that the rights of the fetus are in conflict with the rights of the woman, and that the rights of the woman dominate.
	www.ar-views.org /arfaqfile1.html (20084 words)

	DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln \| IMPLICATIONS OF THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT FOR WILDLIFE DAMAGE ...
		Animal rights advocates are a vocal and active segment of the public who are likely to protest the killing of animals to reduce wildlife-caused damage.
		To meet these goals, the animal rights movement is placed in a historical perspective with regard to the animal welfare movement and associated legislation.
		Finally, I present recommendations for addressing the animal rights movement and animal rights advocates that should be useful to managers of wildlife-caused damage.
	digitalcommons.unl.edu /gpwdcwp/7 (191 words)

	Animal Rights: Timeline
		Animals are crowded into pens and cages and fed large amounts of antibiotics to counter the diseases that run rampant under those conditions.
		Grazing rights were guaranteed for cows, larger cages for chickens, and separate bedding and feeding places for pigs.
		Animal activists feel ranching and trapping by using steel jaw and leg traps is inhumane.
	maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu /socio/kuechler/309/ar-time.html (674 words)

	MBEAW: Animal Rights Movement
		Dombrowski, Daniel A. Hartshorne and the Metaphysics of Animal Rights (Albany: SUNY, 1988).
		Animal Rights: Extending the Circle of Compassion (Oxford: Jon Carpenter, 1995).
		The Animal Rights Crusade: The Growth of a Moral Protest (NY: Maxwell Macmillan, 1992).
	www.mbeaw.org /resources/betterworld/animalrights.html (1458 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - animal-rights movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Although the movement can trace its roots to the antivivisection campaigns (see vivisection) of the 19th cent., the modern movement is closely tied to environmental issues.
		By the 1990s, membership in major national animal-rights organizations, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, had grown dramatically.
		(the potential for being targeted by animal rights groups)(includes article on the continuing need for antiterrorism efforts)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a1/animalri.asp (406 words)

	WorldNetDaily: The madness of the animal rights movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The real message of the radical animal rights movement is that people are only animals - and not very good ones at that.
		Elevating animals up to the level of human beings -- as actor Steven Segal, one of PETA's celebrity advocates, puts it, "We have to view all life as equal" -- is a round about way of saying that human beings are no more than animals and therefore have no souls.
		Animal-rights radicals loathe the idea of man having an immortal soul, of his being superior to the animals, because if we are superior to animals it is because we have a soul, and that reality makes us subservient to something greater than ourselves.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=18765 (1806 words)

	The Wall Street Journal Thursday
		In legal terms, animals are "things," that is, they don't possess rights on their own.
		The federal Animal Welfare Act requires "a physical environment adequate to promote the psychological well-being of primates." But because chimps currently lack legal standing, advocates say it is difficult to compel the Department of Agriculture to enforce the law.
		She kept the first three chimps, retired from an animal act, in cages in a downtown Phoenix apartment.
	www.lawschool100.com /chimps.htm (1205 words)

	About PETA >> FAQs >> General
		Animal welfare theories accept that animals have interests but allow those interests to be traded away as long as the human benefits are thought to justify the sacrifice, while animal rights theories say that animals, like humans, have interests that cannot be sacrificed or traded away to benefit others.
		Supporters of the animal rights movement believe that animals are not ours to use for food, clothing, entertainment, or experimentation, while supporters of the animal welfare movement believe that animals can be used for those purposes as long as “humane” guidelines are followed.
		Animals are not always able to choose to change their behaviors, but adult human beings have the intelligence and ability to choose between behaviors that hurt others and behaviors that do not hurt others.
	www.peta.org /about/faq.asp (2213 words)

	Mad Deer Disease?
		As yet there is no vaccine for C.W.D. Sadly, some animal-rights activists have openly cheered the recent outbreaks of animal disease, saying, basically, "It serves the meat eaters right." This only serves to heighten existing tensions, and to expose the dark underbelly of the animal-rights movement.
		Infected animals become more susceptible to other illnesses and the overall vitality of the herd declines, but H.M.D. is not fatal to most adult animals.
		Many wildlife biologists believe that we should be examining other strategies to control and eradicate animal diseases without resorting to massive slaughter, which could have massive implications for economics and ecology, and possibly be relatively ineffective for disease control in free-ranging animals in the long run.
	www.organicconsumers.org /madcow/mad51901.cfm (1456 words)

	Similar Principles: The Animal Rights Movement, Feminism, and Abortion Opponents - Articles - The Writings of Vasu S. ...
		Animals are autonomous beings, possessing levels of conscious awareness comparable to those of small human children (or at least the mentally handicapped).
		Animal-rights activists, likewise, compare the rights of animals to those of very young human children, insisting that a lack of respect for the lives and rights of animals brutalizes humans into insensitivity towards one another.
		She called the animals who were fed grain "protein factories in reverse." It takes sixteen pounds of grain and soy to produce one pound of feedlot beef.
	www.all-creatures.org /murti/art-arfemabort.html (7561 words)

	Ethics Updates - Animal Rights & Welfare
		Animal Rights Law Center at Rutgers University School of Law offers an excellent selection of resources; includes cases and materials on Student Rights and Conscientious Objection to Harming Animals, Hunting and Wildlife Contraception, Hunter Harassment, Wild Horses, Animal Sacrifice, Animal Care Committees, and extensive material on legislation and regulations.
		In Interests and Rights: The Case Against Animals (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), R. Frey argues that animals are part of the moral community, but that their lives are not of equal value to adult human lives.
		Andrew Linzey, in Animal Rights: A Christian Assessment (London: SCM Press, 1976) and Christianity and the Rights of Animals (New York: Crossroad, 1988) develops a critique of Christianity's neglect of animals and offers a theological foundation for a more positive Christian attitude toward the rights of animals.
	ethics.sandiego.edu /Applied/Animals/index.asp (1303 words)

	Animal Rights Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		...The animal rights movement comprises a spectrum of beliefs and organizations ranging from what is.....Organizations comprising the animal rights movement: People for the Ethical...
		Debate animal rights/welfare issues in the Animal Concerns Forum with other members of the community.
		RAA is a non-profit organization whose mission is to foster scholarly research and public education in the history of animal protection, advocacy and the modern animal rights movement...
	www.haldago.org /animal-rights-movement.html (274 words)

	Animalrights.net - Exposing the animal rights movement
		Three UK animal rights extremists received jail sentences ranging from 15 months to four years their part in an illegal campaign against companies that had business relationships with Huntingdon Life Sciences.
		Mark Taylor, 39; wife Suzanne, 35; and Teresa Portwine, 48, were the first to be charged under new UK laws designed to make it easier to crack down on animal rights extremists who skirted the law in their efforts to harass and intimidate animal research firms and nonprofits.
		While the American College of Surgeons recommends animal alternatives that have proven to be equal or superior to traditional methods, the organization is on record as supporting the use of animals in education and research.
	www.animalrights.net (521 words)

	Animal Rights Movement Records Finding Aid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Animal Rights Movement was organized during the fall semester of the 1987-1988 academic year.
		Their purpose was to educate members of the Mount Holyoke community with regard to issues of animal rights, as well as to host regular forums to discuss these issues with the community.
		The records of the Animal Rights Movement of Mount Holyoke College contain a photograph, contingency funding request forms, a flyer, and newspaper articles.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/library/arch/col/rg25cpi.htm (155 words)

	The Animal Rights Movement - Organizations Quiz
		Whether or not you agree with animal rights activists, this movement has made some real changes in how we, as a society, relate to animals.
		* Many people consider the modern animal rights movement to have begun in 1975 with a publication by Australian philosopher Peter Singer.
		* A controversial US animal group is often in the news for its publicity stunts for suggesting that college students would be healthier drinking beer than milk.
	www.funtrivia.com /quizdetails.cfm?quiz=2066 (111 words)

	Vegetarians In Paradise /Vegetarian Links/Vegan Links/Animal Rights Links
		A great starting place for animal lovers, this colorful site is loaded with all kinds of information including animal events, support resources, animal heroes, celebrities discussing animals, and discussion boards for lovers of cats, dogs, birds, wildlife, and those interested in animal issues.
		Rescuing farm animals from abuse, neglect, and slaughter and caring for them are the prinicpal goals of this humanitarian organization located in Valencia.
		Using the animals as their classroom, the foundation teaches children kindness and compassion to animals, each other, and our planet with a series of weekly school visits.
	www.vegparadise.com /linkswe.html (11651 words)

	Vegan Blog: The (Eco) Logical Weblog [ Ecology, Environmentalism, Animal Rights, and Education for the Conscious Planet ...
		Radicals are furious with Rabbi Lerner that he would plead his case in the mainstream media and present on the eve of the demos the representation of anything other than a united front.
		Right now it is open -- as long as it is open to a few, it is open.
		Another threat is the movement of highly invasive species to regions where they may pose problems to native species.
	getvegan.com /blog/2003_02_09_archive.php (3707 words)

	Animal rights activists are forming animal rights groups and animal rights organizations to do animal rights online.
		Animal rights activists are forming animal rights groups and animal rights organizations to do animal rights online.
		Animal rights activists of the animal rights movement are forming new animal rights groups and animal rights organizations to do animal rights online.
		MARS is a group of University of Michigan students devoted to the cause of animal rights..
	www.greenpeople.org /AnimalRights.html (2024 words)

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	www.infoplease.com /search?fr=iptn&query=Washingtonian+movement&in=all (209 words)

	Jim Powlesland's Hunting Page
		Russell and Nicholl dissect the bible of the animal rights movement.
		Richard Nelson on animal "rights" as ecological nonsense.
		To educate and promote all animal related sports and help anyone else under attack by AR organizations.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~powlesla/personal/hunting/rights (194 words)

	Animal Scam \| AnimalScam.com
		The modern animal rights movement is not what it seems.
		Today's activists have perverted once-sensible animal welfare goals by putting animals ahead of human beings and employing a "by any means necessary" philosophy to achieve their goals of "total animal liberation."
		We’ve always been perplexed by the hubris of animal rights zealots who harass restaurant owners (and customers) over specific menu items like veal or foie gras.
	www.animalscam.com (370 words)

	Animal Concerns Community
		Debate animal rights/welfare issues in the Animal Concerns Forum with other members of the community.
		Animal Concerns is a project of the EnviroLink Network, a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991.
		The Animal Concerns Community is a project of the EnviroLink Network, a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental and animal rights/welfare resources since 1991.
	www.animalconcerns.org (266 words)

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