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Chapter 1
Introduction
Introduction
- 1. The Broad Setting
- the big problem.
2. Mass Extinction
- we live in the Sixth Extinction.
3. Animal Holocaust
- we live in an enduring and worsening animal holocaust.
4. World Scientists' Warning to Humanity
- scientists attempt to alert the world to the impending catastrophe.
Chapter 2
Philosophy: Key Topics
Philosophy: Key Topics
- 1. Animal Rights
- know what animal rights are.
2. Equal Consideration
- are animal and human moral interests equally important?
3. Animal Ethics
- rationally defend your animal rights activism.
4. Consequentialism
- the morality of your action depends only on its consequences.
5. Deontology
- the morality of your action depends only on doing your duty.
6. Virtue Ethics
- the morality of your action depends only on your character.
7. Comparing Philosophies
- comparing animal rights with ethics, welfare & conservation.
8. Deep Ecology
- contrasts with animal rights and gives it perspective.
Chapter 3
Campaigning: Methods for Animal Rights
Campaigning: Methods for Animal Rights
- 1. Campaigning
- change society for the better.
2. Civil Disobedience
- campaign by civil disobedience to right injustice.
3. Direct Action
- a stronger form of civil disobedience.
4. Action Planning
- take care that your activities are successful.
5. Lobbying
- sway the prominent and influential.
6. Picketing
- protest your target visibly and publicly.
7. Starting a Group
- find and organise your troops.
8. Leafleting
- reach out to influence people.
9. News Media
- use and handle the news media.
10. Internet
- communicate globally with the widest reach.
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Chapter 4
Activities for Animal Rights
Activities for Animal Rights
- 1. Teacher
- a most effective way of opening minds to ideas.
2. Animal Lawyer
- practice law to advance animals and their allies.
3. Undercover Investigator
- amass the evidence that animal advocates fire at abusers.
4. Video Activist
- seize people's attention by bringing home vivid reality.
5. Animal Preacher
- expound The Word for animals.
6. Animal Rescuer
- liberate abused animals.
7. Investigative Reporter
- probe questionable activities hidden from the public.
8. Media Watcher
- sway the shapers of public opinion.
9. Street Theatre Actor
- perform and entertain for animal rights on the streets.
10. Blogger
- use your creative writing skills for animals.
11. Philosopher
- philosophers do it by reasoning.
12. Flyer
- look down on your opponents to see what they are up to.
13. Personal Activist
- includes the single most effective thing you can do for animals.
14. Author - Playwright
- write short stories, novels and plays of the animal rights genre.
15. Animal Friendly Traveller
- prepare yourself for travel abroad.
16 Politician
- start your own animal political party.
17. Prisoner Supporter
- succour animal rights prisoners.
18. Public & School Speaker
- orate on behalf of animals.
19. Aerial Snooper
- reconnoitre and photograph by remote control.
20. Scientific Investigator
- plan, scrutinise, analyse and report.
21. Solo Information Worker
- display info and eye-catching knowledge.
22. Voluntary Worker Abroad
- jump into far-off cultures for animal rights.
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Chapter 5
The Law & Animal Rights
The Law & Animal Rights
- 1. Terrorism
- a few people wielding disproportionate pressure - but are they just?
2. Violence or Nonviolence?
- can we licence violence?
3. The Law - US & Britain
- what might you be up against?
4. Police Arrest
- prepare by knowing what to expect.
Chapter 6
Animal Statistics
Animal Statistics
- 1.Summary
- some of the billions people kill annually.
2.Meat Statistics
- how much meat do people eat?
3. Chicken Statistics
- how many chickens do people keep & kill?
4. Pig / Hog Statistics
- people kill 23 million pigs a week.
5. Sheep & Goat Statistics
- how many sheep & goats do people keep & kill?
6. Beef Cattle Statistics
- how many cattle do people keep & kill?
7. Fish Statistics
- how much fish do people farm and catch from the sea?
8. Fur Animal Statistics
- the fur trade kills endless millions and threatens species.
9. Numbers of Animals in Biomedical Research
- how many animals do people experiment on in laboratories?
10. Human Overpopulation
- the more people the more animal abuse.
Chapter 7
More Philosophy
More Philosophy
- 1. Anthropocentrism
- everything is secondary to human needs.
2. Anthropomorphism
- humanising animals.
3. Environmentalism
- how to interact with living and inanimate nature?
4. Golden Rule
- a simple moral test that guides our behaviour.
5. Intrinsic Value
- do animals have value in themselves?
6. Is Ought Fallacy
- facts (is) are one thing whereas value judgements (ought) is another.
7. Painism
- is it morally wrong to cause severe pain to reduce a lesser pain?
8. Subject of a Life
- an animal is a subject of a life and a singular individual.
9. Moral Daggers: egoism, emotivism, subjectivism
- are moral judgements merely emotional flows?
10. Utilitarianism
- the greatest good to the greatest number - but minorities watch out.
11. Absolutism
- a standard by which you can judge everything.
12. Contractarianism
- why some people are against animal rights.
13. Legalism
- does the law always say what is morally right?
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Chapter 8
Animal-Human Issues (Some of Them)
Animal-Human Issues (Some of Them)
- 1. Bearskin Hats
- the British army makes hats of bears.
2. Bushmeat
- over five million tonnes of animals from West Africa alone.
3. Chickens - Broilers
- cheap mass-production of chickens for the supermarkets.
4. Chickens - Egg-laying Hens
- five billion egg-laying hens.
5. Climate Change
- the greatest burden on our moral behaviour.
6. Foxhunting with Hounds
- honourable sports do not harm other beings.
7. Fur Brushes & Bows
- do not forget the forgotten fur (and bows).
8. Fur Farming
- the fur trade is money and slaughter.
9. Fur Marketing
- pelts pass through many international stages before getting to women.
10. Fur Morality
- fur-wearers are the ultimate key to the fur trade's existence.
11. Fur Species & Sales Value
- animals the fur trade wastes.
12. Fur Trapping
- devastated native peoples and eradicated animal populations.
13. Factory Farming
- one of the primary issues in animal rights.
14. Goldfish Bowls
- making life multi-problemed for ornamental fish.
15. Human Superiority
- we cannot judge animals solely by human values.
16. Mutilation of Farm Animals
- trying to fit animals to farms, not farms to animals.
17. Religious Tradition
- styles of religious thought clash with animals.
18. Zoophilia
- something the animal rights debate does not discuss.
19. Zoos
- what are zoos for?
Chapter 9
Science
Science
- 1. Altruism
- why do you help others?
2. Behaviourism
- it seriously retarded research on animal minds.
3. Brain: milestones of understanding
- the main medium of thoughts, feelings and behaviour in animals.
4. Clever Hans the Counting Horse
- a lesson about attributing to animals characteristics they do not possess.
5. Consciousness
- how do we know other species are conscious?
6. Mirror Test of Animal Consciousness
- giving animals a mirror to see if they are self-aware.
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Chapter 10
Ideas
Ideas
- 1. Animal Rights Motto
- a forceful motto for your animal rights work.
2. Expanding the Circle
- extending our moral circle outwards from humanity.
3. Cat Traffic Training
- do not let the motorist nobble your cat.
4. Dog Training
- communicate effectively with your dog with these effective tips..
5. The Five Freedoms
- ideals of welfare more honoured in the breach.
6. Great Apes
- bestowing rights on great apes.
7. Han means He or She
- avoid repeating 'he or she' all the time.
8. It - Stop Calling Animals It
- calling animals 'it' degrades them into the class of things.
9. Number Fallacy
- because there are lots of them it is all right to kill them?
10. Invertebrate Harmony
- we should try to live in harmony with all creatures.
11. Posters, Paintings, Cartoons & Prints
- use these graphics freely.
12. Predation
- predators cannot make moral choices and predation is vital for life.
13. Soul
- do humans have souls while animals do not?
14. Think Like an Animal
- thoughts need not be based on language.
15. Euphemisms
- beware the hidden euphemism.
16. Universal Declaration on Animals
- the hope is to recognise animals as sentient beings.
17. Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare
- draft of the Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare.
18. Vegetarianism
- making a start is a declaration example.
19. Vermin
- ecological rivals are competitors not scum.
20. Wolf Ethics
- do not lose a major battle to live with animal life.
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Chapter 11
Personalities
Personalities
- 1. Aquinas, Thomas
- God made animals for man and it is not a sin to kill them.
2. Aristotle
- animals cannot reason so we can use them without consideration.
3. Bentham, Jeremy
- the question is not can animals reason but can they suffer?
4. Copernicus, Nicolaus
- humanity does not occupy a privileged position in the cosmos.
5. Darwin & Natural Selection
- explained how humans are animals that evolved from animals.
6. Descartes
- propounded that animals are automata, a view adopted by science.
7. John Lawrence
- on of the earliest modern writers on animal rights.
8. Richard Martin
- he fought for laws and duelled for animals.
9. Henry Salt
- the first animal rights book.
10. Steven Best
- we are in a battlefield not at a bargaining table.
11. Andrew Linzey
- the face of Christianity embracing animals.
12. The McLibel Two
- laid bare the nasty deeds of quick food business.
13. Ingrid Newkirk
- a wheel needs all its spokes to make it go round.
14. Jill Phipps
- a hero whose actions will inspire.
15. Henry Spira
- the most effective activist of the modern animal rights movement.
16. Philosophers Three
- activism comes in words as well as deeds.
Chapter 12
Sundry Animal Rights Stuff
Sundry Animal Rights Stuff
- Posters, Paintings, Cartoons & Prints
- use these freely for your non-profit animal rights work.
Glossary
- glossary of animal rights and related terms on this web site.
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