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unusual facts about Animal Rights



Angela Singer

Angela Singer (born 1966 in Essex) is an English artist and animal rights activist who now lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

Animal Cops: Detroit

The show won "Outstanding Reality Program" at the 2003 Genesis Awards, an award show sponsored by the Humane Society of the United States that highlights media contributions to animal rights causes throughout the world.

Animal Liberation Press Office

Animal Liberation Press Offices relay anonymous communiques, photos and videos to the media about direct action undertaken by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), Animal Rights Militia (ARM), Animal Liberation Brigade, Justice Department, and other leaderless resistance within the animal liberation movement.

Animal welfare in New Zealand

Animal welfare in New Zealand governed by the Animal Welfare Act 1999 and a number of organisations actively advocate for both animal welfare and animal rights.

Billy Smart, Jr.

At its peak, in the days before animal rights were a popular issue, Billy Smart's four-masted Big Top could hold over 6,000 people, with a show including hundreds of animals and performers.

Cincinnati Freedom

Cincinnati Freedom (born c.1995–December 29, 2008), also known as Charlene Mooken, was a 1,050-pound Charolais cow who lived at Farm Sanctuary's New York Shelter in Watkins Glen, New York, and which was particularly popular with animal rights activists and animal lovers.

Cloverdale Rodeo and Country Fair

The rodeo is an annual target of animal rights activists, who allege that bucking straps, electric prods, spurs and physical abuse are used to terrorize the animals into action.

Come on Baby

"Come on Baby" is a song by American electronica musician Moby, released on 4 November 1996 as the second single from his 1996 album Animal Rights.

Frankie Trull

Trull played an instrumental role in coordinating Congressional consensus for the passage of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2006, to provide greater protection for researchers from animal rights extremists.

Green Anarchist

Early issues featured a range of broadly anarchist and ecological ideas, bringing together groups and individuals as varied as Class War, veteran anarchist writer Colin Ward, anarcho-punk band Crass, as well as the Peace Convoy, anti-nuclear campaigners, animal rights activists and so on.

Hassan Bek Mosque

The place of the razed Arab housing was taken by high-rise office buildings and a park, as well as the sea-shore Dolphinarium (used first for dolphin performances, stopped due to protests by animal rights groups, and than transformed into a nightclub - which was to become tragically famous in 2001).

Jonti Picking

In 2013, Picking teamed up with Queen guitarist and animal rights activist Brian May and actor Brian Blessed, along with a number of animal rights organisations including the RSPCA, to form "Team Badger", a coalition against the British Government's proposed badger cull.

Striking at the Roots

More than 100 animal activists -- including Carol J. Adams, Gene Baur, Alka Chandna, Nick Cooney, Karen Davis, Joyce D’Silva, Adam Durand, Lisa Franzetta, Juliet Gellatley, Bruce Friedrich, Pattrice Jones, Erik Marcus, Jack Norris, Glenys Oogjes, Lauren Ornelas, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, Nathan Runkle, Paul Shapiro and Kim Sturla -- discuss the models of activism that work best for advancing animal rights and animal welfare.

The Kind Diet

The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight and Saving the Planet is a vegan cookbook written by actress and animal rights activist Alicia Silverstone.


see also

Animal studies

Taking up Derrida's deconstruction and extending it to other cultural territory, Cary Wolfe published Animal Rites in 2003 and critiqued earlier animal rights philosophers such as Peter Singer and Thomas Regan.

Animals, Men and Morals

John Harris writes about killing for food, Maureen Duffy about hunting, Brigid Brophy about the need for animal rights, Roslind and Stanley Godlovitch about the ethics, and Leonard Nelson (the German philosopher who died in 1927) about duties to animals.

Annie Johnston

Velma Bronn Johnston (1912–1977), American animal rights activist known as Wild Horse Annie

Barry Horne

Keith Mann writes that the nature of police interest in animal rights activists was such that working alone was safer, and Horne was anyway a reserved man, happy to go out alone and "do stuff," as he put it.

Costa Mesa High School

Dan Mathews (Class of 1981) - Longtime champion of animal rights and Senior VP of Media Campaigns for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Emily Barclay

In 2006, Barclay became an ambassador for Australian animal rights group Voiceless, the animal protection institute.

Emily Deschanel

She can be seen in an Access Hollywood video at the book launch event of Karen Dawn's Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals, discussing how vegetarian and vegan diets help the environment, and a video on the homepage of the book's website talking about the importance of animal rights.

Grant Aleksander

He is a vegetarian, who is an active member of PETA (one of the instructional videos on the PETA website features Aleksander, warning people about the dangers of leaving an animal inside a car when temperatures are warm outside) and known for his activism in animal rights.

Henry Salt

Henry Stephens Salt (1851–1939), English writer, campaigner for social reforms, vegetarian, and animal rights advocate

James Haven

Since 2006, Haven has been the executive board director of Artivist, a festival in Los Angeles that highlights films addressing human rights, animal rights, and environmental issues.

Jerry Vlasak

Inspired by his now (2008) ex-wife Pamelyn Ferdin, who was a president of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty in the U.S., Vlasak became active in promoting animal rights in 1993.

Keep Singing! A Benefit Compilation for Compassion Over Killing

A Benefit Compilation for Compassion Over Killing is a benefit album by Exotic Fever Records supporting the non-profit animal rights advocacy group, Compassion Over Killing.

Lawrence Finsen

He joined the philosophy department at Redlands in 1979, and has taught courses in England on the animal rights movement, in mainland Europe on the Holocaust, and in 2004 spent a semester teaching at Reitaku University in Japan.

Martin Balluch

He was one of two protesters who abseiled down Great St Mary's Church in Cambridge in November 1998 in support of animal rights activist Barry Horne, who spent 68 days on hunger strike in an unsuccessful effort to have the government order a Royal Commission on animal testing.

MY Bob Barker

The MY Bob Barker is a ship owned and operated by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, named after American television game show host and animal rights activist Bob Barker, whose donation of $5 million to the society facilitated the purchase of the ship.

Nicolas Atwood

According to The Sunday Times, he has sent out e-mails naming Oxford academics who are targets of the animal rights movement, including Colin Blakemore, former head of the British Medical Research Council.

Richard Ryder

Richard D. Ryder (born 1940), British psychologist and animal rights advocate

Rita Miljo

Rita Miljo (1931 Klaipėda, Lithuania - 27 July 2012 Phalaborwa district), was a renowned conservationist and animal rights pioneer noted for founding and managing the "Centre for Animal Rehabilitation and Education" (CARE) near Phalaborwa in South Africa.

Ryan Shapiro

Ryan Shapiro is a doctoral candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) researcher and an advocate for animal rights.

Sentiocentrism

Sentiocentrism is a term contained in the Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, edited by Marc Bekoff.

Shock the Monkey

Due to its title and the content of the video, the song is frequently assumed to be either an animal rights song or a reference to the famous experiments by Stanley Milgram described in his book Obedience to Authority.

United Activists for Animal Rights

Bob Barker has also helped fund other animal rights groups, including the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose new vessel Bob Barker carries a helicopter named after United Activists' president Nancy Burnet.

University of California Riverside 1985 laboratory raid

Veterinarian ophthalmologist Ned Buyukmihci of the University of California, Davis, and founder of Veterinarians for Animal Rights, said after he examined Britches that the sutures used were too large, the monkey's eye pads were dirty, and that, in his view, there was no justification for what he called a sloppy, painful experiment.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky's donkey video

International organizations People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), as well as Russian animal rights activists, have accused Zhirinovsky of cruelty to animals.