Speciesism is the assigning of different values or rights to beings on the basis of their species membership ..., a hatred of all humans because they are human. I use the word speciesism , he wrote in 1975, to describe the widespread discrimination that is practised by man against other species ... Speciesism .... However, other philosophers and scientists came to defend speciesism as an acceptable if not laudable ... 1980 In defense of speciesism, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 13 No. 1. ref Philosopher ... speciesism are based instead on the principle of equal consideration of interests , and he has ... defend Speciesism as an acceptable if not good behavior for humans. Carl Cohen , a Professor .... Speciesism is not merely plausible it is essential for right conduct, because those who will not make .... At any rate, I wish to defend speciesism... ref name autogenerated1980 Opponents Gary Francione ... s thus cquote Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christianity Christian inspired attitudes ... elaborated on his personal position towards speciesism and vegetarianism in a live discussion with Singer ... conditions for both humans and other animals . He compares speciesism to racism and sexism . ref ... that simply to fight speciesism is not enough because intrinsic value of nature can be extended beyond ... equates the racism of the Nazis with the speciesism inherent in eating meat, or using animal by products ... 132 ref Y. Michael Barilan, an Israeli physician who in his article Speciesism as a precondition for justice , writes that speciesism is not the same thing as Nazi racism because Nazi racism extolled the abuser and condemned the weaker and the abused. He describes speciesism as the recognition of rights ... Speciesism as a precondition to justice Y. Michael Barilan, MD, MA. Politics and the Life Sciences Article pp. 22 33 ref In fiction In science fiction and works of fantasy speciesism takes on a role ... hall s. Priesthood Catholic Church Rev. John Tuohey writes that the logic behind charges of speciesism ... more details
&cat 16&id 0 9706475 5 7&tocid 64 English and Speciesism English Today Vol. 19, No. 1 ... http www.animalvoices.ca node 97 Joan Dunayer on Speciesism Animal Voices November 23, 2004 http www.animal ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2008 Expert subject politics date November 2008 As a political movement in France , antinaturalism is closely linked to the animal welfare movement some antinaturalists posit that any reference to Natural law , such as the reintroduction of wolf predators into a forest to curb deer overpopulation , is a form of speciesism , and encourage veganism in human beings as well as in predator animals, as a way of showing equal respect to the lives of prey as to the lives of predators. Affinities Antinaturalism is also closely linked to Gender equality anti sexist and gay liberation movements, in part a reaction against religious fundamentalism fundamentalists who justify male subjugation of women, social exclusion of homosexuality , and the primacy of a gender binary featuring patriarchal men, maternal women, and no room for weakness or disability , as expressions of Natural law . Philosophy Some French antinaturalists defend abortion , divorce , contraception , surgery , and other means by which human beings can take control of their own bodies and their own environments see transhumanism . Antinaturalism stands in contrast to some radical environmentalist movements, which state that Nature itself is sacred, and should be preserved for its own sake antinaturalism posits that all human acts are natural, and that ecological preservation is important inasmuch as it is necessary for the well being of sentient life, not because of some inherently sacred attribute of Nature as a whole. See also Speciesism Category Animal rights polisci stub ... more details
More footnotes date February 2011 NOTOC Triple oppression is a theory developed by The Communist Party USA and African Americans black socialists in the United States , such as Claudia Jones . ref http www.workers.org 2010 us claudia jones 0318 ref ref http www.blacklifemagazine.com blm.php?cat lifestyle&pg c jones&num 6 ref The theory states that a connection exists between various types of oppression , specifically classism , racism , and sexism . It hypothesizes that you must strike concurrently at all three types of oppression to overcome the oppression. For an example of triple oppression in practice, consider a factory that contains both men and women of various ethnic backgrounds. If the workers hold racist and sexist beliefs, triple oppression says they will fail to unite to obtain better working conditions, because they are hamstrung by these beliefs. Triple oppression may have since expanded to further types of oppression such as heterosexism and speciesism , as posited by some anarchists . ref http www.infoshop.org faq secB1.html secb14 ref See also Portal box Discrimination Feminism Politics Socialism United States Socialism Intersectionality Black feminism Womanism References Reflist Further reading Davies, Carole Boyce. Claudia Jones Beyond Containment Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd , Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011. Davies, Carole Boyce. Left of Karl Marx The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones , Duke University Press Books, 2008. Viehmann, Klaus. Three Into One The Triple Oppression Of Racism, Sexism And Class , Paper Street, 2004. All India Democratic Women s Association. The triple burden Some issues of class and caste oppression of women AIDWA publication series , B. Karat on behalf of AIDWA, 1999. External links http www.senzacensura.org public arkivio q21 e.htm Three Into One The Triple Oppression of Racism, Sexism, and Class , by Klaus Viehmann, hosted by Senza Censura.org http blackhistorypages.net pages cjones.php Claudia Jones profi ... more details
Multiple issues unreferenced March 2011 notability March 2011 cleanup March 2011 xTRUE NATUREx is a music project acoustic created for the primary purpose of raising awareness around issues of Animal Liberation, Earth Liberation and the Liberation of Humyns from their voluntary enslavement to drugs of all kinds. They strive to reach people outside of Hardcore with the messages gained from such notable bands as Earth Crisis, Gather and Anchor by presenting the ideas in a format that is perhaps more easily acceptable to a larger audience. Important themes in the songs are speciesism , the discrimination of others based on their species, and straight edge , the abstinence from all drugs, including alcohol and tobacco. Discography For the innocent Release Date 2008, Label ECO.NSPIRACY br Track listing br 1. One Species br 2. Be The Change br 3. It Kills You To Know ANCHOR Cover br 4. Industry of War br 5. Total Liberation GATHER Cover br 6. Pono br 7. Ink Under Your Skin br 8. For The Innocent Stolen Children, Stolen Lives Release Date 2009, Label ECO.NSPIRACY br Track listing br 1. Stolen Children, Stolen Lives br 2. The Middle Passage br 3. Comes Back Down br 4. Another Bottle Emptied br 5. Our Mother br 6. Neo Abolitionist br 7. Intent On Destruction br 8. If It Were You br 9. Rubber Bullets br 10. Resolve Band members Arthur Guitar br Paul Messplay Guitar br Oceans Miracle Vocals br Maxxx Vocals, drums br Amazing Grace Vocals br xKeegan The Veganx Vocals, Guitar, Cello br Uncategorized date March 2011 ... more details
Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism . Berg, 2000, p. 17. ref Four schools of thought were influential ... Changing Attitudes towards Speciesism . Berg, 2000, pp. 23 24. ref It was only after Great Flood ... Speciesism . Berg, 2000, p. 25 this translation by Chaim Stern 1999 in Plaut, W. Gunther. The Torah ... towards Speciesism . Berg, 2000, p. 29. ref The Augustine Aquinas argument was later supported ... Ryder, Richard D. Animal Revolution Changing Attitudes towards Speciesism . Berg, 2000, p. 19 ... Revolution Changing Attitudes towards Speciesism . Berg, 2000, p. 19. ref Concept of ius See Natural ... D. Animal Revolution Changing Attitudes towards Speciesism . Berg, 2000, p. 21. ref Islam See ... in Ryder, Richard D. Animal Revolution Changing Attitudes towards Speciesism . Berg, 2000, p. 23. ref ... name Ryder23 Ryder, Richard D. Animal Revolution Changing Attitudes towards Speciesism . Berg, 2000 ... more details
otherpersons Richard Ryder Richard Hood Jack Dudley Ryder , known as Richard D. Ryder born 1940 , is a British psychologist and former parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Democrats who came to public attention in 1969 when, after having worked in animal research laboratories, he began to speak out against animal testing , and became one of the pioneers of the modern animal liberation movement . He is the author of Victims of Science 1975 , Painism A Modern Morality 2003 , and Putting Morality Back into Politics 2006 . A former chairman of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals council, a past president of Britain s Liberal Democrats UK Liberal Democrat Animal Protection Group, and former Mellon Professor at Tulane University , New Orleans , he is parliamentary consultant to the Political Animal Lobby as of April 2004. Ryder was a contributor to the influential Animals, Men and Morals An Inquiry into the Maltreatment of Non humans 1972 edited by Roslind and Stanley Godlovitch and John Harris. It was in a review of this book for the New York Review of Books that the philosopher Peter Singer put forward his basic arguments in favour of animal liberation, based on utilitarianism , that in 1975 became Animal Liberation book Animal Liberation , the book often referred to as the bible of the animal rights movement. Background Ryder is the son of Major Dudley Ryder, great grandson of the Hon. Granville Ryder 1799 1879 Granville Ryder , second son of Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby . He has an MA in Experimental Psychology and a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Cambridge . ref name bio http www.richardryder.co.uk Richard Ryder s website ref Speciesism and painism Ryder coined the term speciesism in 1970 while lying in the bath, ref name Guardian cite news first Richard last Ryder authorlink Richard D. Ryder title All beings that feel pain deserve human rights url http www.guardian.co.uk animalrights story 0,11917,1543799, ... more details
RoughTranslation Spanish Infobox Non profit Non profit name Animal Equality Non profit logo File Animal Equality logo.jpg thumb Non profit type founded date 2006 founder Sharon N ez, Javier Moreno and Jose Valle location Madrid origins key people President and International Spokesperson Sharon N ez area served Spain , UK , Peru , Venezuela and Colombia product mission focus Animal rights method Education, investigation, open rescue s revenue endowment num volunteers num employees num members subsid owner Non profit slogan We are different and equal homepage http www.animalequality.net www.animalequality.net dissolved footnotes File Igualdad Animal Preciados 1.jpg thumb Activists of Animal Equality making a demonstration against the consume of product with animal origin File Igualdad animal Manifestacion en Callao.jpg thumb Members of Animal Equality in a manifestation in Callao, Madrid Animal Equality the original name, and in Spanish language Spanish , Igualdad Animal is an international non profit animal rights Non governmental organization organization whose purpose is to achieve equal consideration and respect for animals, and the abolition of animal slavery . This statement takes to question speciesism , the view that animals have the same status as property. ref http www.elperiodicodearagon.com noticias noticia.asp?pkid 451056 Javier Moreno No somos los propietarios de los animales 28 October 2008 El Peri dico de Arag n es ref Currently the organization is present in Spain , UK , Peru , Venezuela and Colombia . Their activities are concentrated in the cities of Madrid , Sevilla, Barcelona , Caracas y Bogot . The objective of Animal Equality is to raise awareness of the suffering and deaths of nonhuman animals as victims of speciesism and work towards the abolition of animal use through the promotion of veganism. This organization organizes demonstrations in the street to promote respect for animals. ref http www.igualdadanimal.org actividades Actividades Igu ... more details
Otherpersons William Baxter unreferenced date September 2010 Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 William Francis Baxter, Jr. July 13, 1929 November 27, 1998 was a law professor at Stanford University . His specialty was antitrust law . Antitrust Law As United States Assistant Attorney General Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice , Baxter commanded wide public attention when in 1982 he settled a seven year old case against AT&T with by far the largest breakup in the history of the Sherman Antitrust Act , splitting AT&T up into seven Regional Bell operating company regional phone companies . On that same day, he dismissed as without merit a seemingly endless, thirteen year old suit against IBM , which had employed more than 300 lawyers and generated 2,500 depositions and 66 million pages of documents. Animal Rights In 1974, Baxter published a widely read and influential book on the law and economics of pollution control entitled People or Penguins The Case for Optimal Pollution . This book, though aimed at a law audience, contains a philosophically sophisticated stance on the topic of animal rights . Baxter is a Speciesism speciesist . He maintains that non human animals have no moral consideration on their own. Any moral consideration of animals is in relation to humans. Moral consideration is a uniquely human affair. This differs from the view that there is no essential difference between the pain of non human animals and that of human beings see Peter Singer , and also differs from the view that the pain of animals is a morally relevant consideration, but is not morally decisive See Bonnie Steinbock . It is important to note that Baxter is not antipathetic toward non human animals in fact, he points out that many things that are in the interests of animals and the larger environment for that matter are in fact also in the best interests of humans as well. In this sense we have obligation ... more details
The Pioneer Award is given by the Science Fiction Research Association to the writer or writers of the best critical essay length work of the year. Previous winners 1990 Veronica Hollinger, The Vampire and the Alien Variations on the Outsider 1991 H. Bruce Franklin , The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy 1992 Istvan Csiscery Ronay Jr., The SF of Theory Baudrillard and Haraway 1993 No Award 1994 Larry McCaffery and Takayuki Tatsumi , Towards the Theoretical Frontiers of Fiction From Metafiction and Cyberpunk through Avant Pop 1995 Roger Luckhurst, The Many Deaths of Science Fiction A Polemic 1996 Brian Stableford , How Should a Science Fiction Story End? 1997 John Moore, Shifting Frontiers Cyberpunk and the American South 1998 I. F. Clarke, Future War Fiction The First Main Phase, 1871 1900 1999 Carl Freedman, Kubrick s 2001 and the Possibility of a Science Fiction Cinema 2000 Wendy Pearson, Alien Cryptographies The View from Queer, published in the March 1999 issue of Science Fiction Studies . 2001 De Witt Douglas Kilgore, Changing Regimes Vonda N. McIntyre s Parodic Astrofuturism, published in the July 2000 issue of Science Fiction Studies . 2002 Judith Berman , Science Fiction Without the Future, published in the May 2001 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction 2003 Lance Olsen , Omniphage, from the Edging into the Future collection 2004 Andrew M. Butler, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom, published in the November 2003 issue of Science Fiction Studies . 2005 Lisa Yaszek, The Women History Doesn t See Recovering Midcentury Women s SF as a Literature of Social Critique, published in Extrapolation 45 1 34 51. 2006 Maria DeRose, Redefining Women s Power Through Science Fiction, published in Extrapolation 46 1 66 89. 2007 Amy J. Ransom, Oppositional Postcolonialism in Qu b cois Science Fiction, published in Science Fiction Studies 33 2 291 312. 2008 Sherryl Vint, Speciesism and Species Being in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Image Grayling Meaning.JPG thumb The Meaning of Things Applying Philosophy to Life is a 200 page book by A. C. Grayling first published in 2001. Written without footnote s with the intention to popularize philosophical reasoning, it consists of short essays on a variety of subjects which, although deeply rooted in philosophy , are everyday phenomena encountered, recognized, and understood by everyone. Contents Part I Virtues and Attributes Moralising &mdash Tolerance &mdash Mercy &mdash Civility &mdash Compromise &mdash Fear &mdash Courage &mdash Defeat &mdash Sorrow &mdash Death &mdash Hope &mdash Perseverance &mdash Prudence &mdash Frankness &mdash Lying &mdash Perjury &mdash Betrayal &mdash Loyalty &mdash Blame &mdash Punishment &mdash Delusion &mdash Love &mdash Happiness &mdash Part II Foes and Fallacies Nationalism &mdash Racism &mdash Speciesism &mdash Hate &mdash Revenge &mdash Intemperance &mdash Depression mood Depression &mdash Christianity &mdash Sin &mdash Repentance &mdash Faith &mdash Miracle s &mdash Prophecy &mdash Virginity &mdash Paganism &mdash Blasphemy &mdash Obscenity &mdash Poverty &mdash Capitalism Part III Amenities and Goods Reason &mdash Education &mdash Excellence &mdash Ambition &mdash Acting &mdash Art &mdash Health &mdash Leisure &mdash Pace &mdash Reading activity Reading &mdash Memory &mdash History &mdash Leadership &mdash Travel &mdash Privacy &mdash Family &mdash ageing Age &mdash Gift s &mdash Trifles Quotations Defeat is always an opportunity, even when, as far too often happens, what is genuinely the better cause has been crushed by the worse. ... But nothing happens without a lesson to offer, or without opening other routes into the future. Hatred ... is dislike and antipathy inflamed to a high degree and inspired by beliefs which stimulate a set of other emotions in the hater, chief among them fear , ignorance , jealousy , anger and disgust . But note that all these emotions, and especially th ... more details
notability date May 2010 singlesource date May 2010 Allophilia is having positive attitude for a group that is not one s own. The term derived from Greek language Greek words meaning liking or love of the other . ref Pittinsky, T. L. 2010 . A two dimensional theory of intergroup leadership The case of national diversity. American Psychologist, 65 3 , 194 200. ref Studied by social scientists , allophilia is the antonym of negative prejudice s and the antonym of a host of isms sexism , racism , speciesism , heterosexism , ageism , anti Semitism , and elitism classism and phobias homophobia , islamophobia , xenophobia , etc. Allophilia can be felt towards members of a different Race classification of human beings race , sex , species , gender role gender , sexual orientation , religion , disability , Social class class , nationality , school , team , or workplace. Allophilia has five statistical factors kinship, engagement, affection, comfort, enthusiasm. File Allophilia Scale.svg thumb right 340px Allophilia scale The Allophilia Scale measures each of these factors. ref Pittinsky, T. L., Rosenthal, S. A., & Montoya, R. M. 2010 . Measuring positive attitudes toward outgroups Development and Validation of the Allophilia Scale. In L. Tropp & R. Mallett Eds. , Beyond Prejudice Reduction Pathways to Positive Intergroup Relations. Washington, D. C. American Psychological Association. ref The typical remedy for prejudice is to bring conflicting groups into a state of tolerance. However, tolerance is not the logical antithesis of prejudice, but rather is the midpoint between negative feelings and positive feelings toward others. Allophilia enhancement should serve as complement to prejudice reduction. ref name ref3 Pittinsky, T. L., & Montoya, R. M. 2009 . Symhedonia in intergroup relations The relationship of empathic joy to prejudice and allophilia. Psicologia Sociale, 3, 347 364. ref ref Pittinsky, T. L. 2009 . Allophilia Moving beyond tolerance in the classroom. Childhoo ... more details
Basil E Goldstone October 1909 &ndash 1 December 1988 was a United Kingdom British Liberal Party UK Liberal Party activist. Goldstone studied at Richmond Hill School and Dover College before joining the Royal Air Force . ref name times64 The Times Guide to the House of Commons 1964 , p.25 ref He stood repeatedly for the Liberal Party in general elections, but was never elected in Hendon UK Parliament constituency Hendon in UK general election, 1935 1935 , Petersfield UK Parliament constituency Petersfield in UK general election, 1945 1945 , Dover UK Parliament constituency Dover in UK general election, 1950 1950 and UK general election, 1959 1959 , Basingstoke UK Parliament constituency Basingstoke in UK general election, 1964 1964 , Peterborough UK Parliament constituency Peterborough in UK general election, 1966 1966 , Norfolk South UK Parliament constituency Norfolk South in UK general election, 1970 1970 , and Harlow UK Parliament constituency Harlow in UK general election, February 1974 February and UK general election, October 1974 October 1974 . ref name times74 The Times Guide to the House of Commons 1974 , p.140 ref He did served for some years on Kingsclere and Whitchurch Rural District Council. ref name times64 Later in life, Goldstone worked as a hospital catering officer. ref name times74 In 1976&ndash 77, he served as the President of the Liberal Party. A long term supporter of animal rights , in 1978, he proposed wide ranging animal protection legislation, which the party voted to support. ref Richard Dudley Ryder, Animal revolution changing attitudes toward speciesism , p.183 ref References references start box s ppo succession box title President of the Liberal Party UK President of the Liberal Party before Margaret Wingfield after Gruffydd Evans years 1976&ndash 1977 end box Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Goldstone, Basil ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT G ... more details
speciesism , and in so doing, takes the final step toward a truly civilized society, it will continue ... c4gallery.com merch multiples echo six monkey hatice guleryuz speciesism products.html http c4gallery.com merch multiples echo six monkey hatice guleryuz speciesism products.html Persondata Metadata ... more details
of speciesism , and how and why modern human societies exploit and harm animals. He has called for a strategic ..., Power and Speciesism which was critical of the failure, in his view, of the animal protection ... of speciesism, and Animal Rights Violations, and helps administrate the global social movement network ... Archives files 3. 20Language 20power 20speciesism.pdf Language, Power and Speciesism ... more details
Equal consideration of interests is the name of a moral principle that states that one should both include all affected interests when calculating the rightness of an action, and weigh those interests equally. The term equal consideration of interests first appeared in Peter Singer s Practical Ethics . The idea is that individual right s are unimportant philosophically what is instead much more relevant is the consideration of an individual s interests. The principle thus opposes those theories that either exclude some interests from the moral calculus or weigh certain interests differently from others. Jeremy Bentham s dictum , each to count for one, and none for more than one can be considered a formulation of the principle of equal consideration of interests, and a basis for the broader philosophy of utilitarianism . The principle also underlies Peter Singer s views, who is a moral utilitarian that has explicitly adopted it as the foundation of his ethical theory. If all beings, not just human, are included as having interests that must be considered, then the principle of equal consideration of interests opposes not only racism and sexism , but also speciesism ref Bentham, Jeremy. Introduction to the Principles and Morals of Legislation, Corollary 1 of Chapter 17. published 1823. ref and some forms of nationalism . Example For example, when drafting up a list of rights that all human beings should have, it is both unnecessary and unimportant to say that all human beings have the right to become pregnant. Clearly, an entire segment of the population males does not even have this capability, and so defining this as a right of all humans is wholly unimportant. The essence of the principle of equal consideration of interests is that we give equal weight in our moral deliberations to the like interests of all those affected by our actions. This means that if only X and Y would be affected by a possible act, and if X stands to lose more than Y stands to gain, it is be ... more details
Bonnie Steinbock is a professor of philosophy at the University at Albany, The State University of New York University at Albany and a specialist in bioethics who has written on topics such as abortion and in one article animal rights . ref citenews title Reluctance of egg donors stymies Harvard efforts publisher Boston Globe date June 7, 2007 url http www.boston.com news science articles 2007 06 07 reluctance of egg donors stymies harvard efforts ref Questions from her examinations have appeared in the Education Life section of the New York Times . ref citenews title Prof. Bonnie Steinbock, SUNY, Albany publisher New York Times date November 6, 2005 url http www.nytimes.com 2005 11 06 education edlife quiz.4.html ref Steinbock received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley . She is a fellow of the Hastings Center , an independent bioethics research institution. ref http www.thehastingscenter.org About Default.aspx?id 902 The Hastings Center Hastings Center Fellows. Accessed November 6, 2010 ref As soon as birth year is added, PLEASE also edit List of people by name Ste Steinb Steinw Views on animal pain According to Steinbock, the pain of animals is a morally relevant consideration but is not morally decisive. This differs from Peter Singer s view that there is no essential difference between the pain of non human animals and that of human beings, and also differs from William Baxter law professor William Baxter s view that animals have no moral consideration on their own whatsoever. Also, she argues that there are morally good reasons for taking our own species as morally special, and thus the interests of non human animals in relation to pain are not as important as those of human beings though she admits those interests to be existent. Furthermore, Steinbock affirms speciesism . For her, humans are more important than non human animals, though non human animals, in their own right , have moral status because they have interests of their own. Bein ... more details
Infobox Film name Earthlings image EarthlingsPlain.Wiki.jpg caption director Shaun Monson producer Babak Cyrus Razi ref name EarthlingsCastCrew br Maggie Q ref name EarthlingsCastCrew br Nicole Visram ref name EarthlingsCastCrew br Brett Harrelson ref name EarthlingsCastCrew br Persia White ref name EarthlingsCastCrew narrator Joaquin Phoenix music Moby distributor Nation Earth released 2005 runtime 95 minutes language English language English EARTHLINGS is a 2005 documentary about mankind s use of nonhuman animals as pets , food , clothing , entertainment , and for scientific research . The film is narrated by Joaquin Phoenix and features music by Moby , both of whom are practicing vegans . It was directed by Shaun Monson , and co produced by Maggie Q , who are also vegan . ref name EarthlingsCastCrew cite web url http www.earthlings.com earthlings cast crew.php title Single Most Powerful Information With Professional Cast and Crew in EARTHLINGS publisher Nation Earth accessdate October 23, 2010 ref Synopsis Covering pet stores , puppy mills and animal shelters , as well as factory farms , the leather and fur trades, sports and entertainment industries, and finally the medical and scientific profession, EARTHLINGS includes footage obtained through the use of hidden cameras to chronicle the day to day practices of some of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely on animals. It draws parallels between racism , sexism , and speciesism , and advocates veganism . Promotion Joaquin Phoenix commented on the documentary that, Of all the films I have ever made, this is the one that gets people talking the most. For every one person who sees EARTHLINGS , they will tell three. ref http www.safe.org.nz Education Earthlings New Zealand debut screening a sell out success SAFE ref Peter Singer , best known for his book Animal Liberation book Animal Liberation states, i f I could make everyone in the world see one film, I d make them see Earthlings and Tom Regan , f ... more details
Cleanup date May 2007 Unreferenced date March 2009 Brazilian Abolitionist Movement for Animal liberation is social movement against the exploitation of nonhuman animals, this theoretical and practical approach differ from animal welfare which seeks to regulate this exploitation to make it more humane. Animal Abolitionist According to Heron Santana, president of the Animal Abolitionist Institute it is wrong of those who oppose animal abolitionism to imagine that this movement is against humanity. In fact, it refers to the extension of the moral sphere to include animals rather than threatening man exalting him. If we understand cruelty as the act of doing something bad, tormenting or damaging others through insensitive, inhumane, painful acts, all and any cruel practice to animals therefore offends rather than confirms the principle of human dignity. The social inefficacy of the principles and rules of article 225 of the Federal Constitution of Brazil occur because of the social obstacles that Lassalle called real factors of power, such as the animal s exploration industry and the psychological blocks putted by the speciesism s ideology , that has soldier, until the moment, that the legal factors transform into real factors of power. However it may be, it will be always possible to demand of the Third Power the compatibility of the inferior norms with the constitutional rules, because the real factors of the power come passing for significant changes, as the current environmental crisis and the recent scientific discovered have demonstrated. The environmental crisis and factors as the global warming , the water pollution by the animal s exploration industry, the increase of the illnesses because of the meat consumption associates to the abolitionism and vegetarian movements amplify around the world are an evidence that the real factors are modifying. A sign of progress of the issue in Brazil is the creation of the Animal Abolitionism Institute , occurred during the 1 ... more details
Dr. David Alan Nibert is an American sociologist , academic authorship author , and professor of Sociology at Wittenberg University . ref http www5.wittenberg.edu academics soci facultystaff nibert.html Dr. David A. Nibert Wittenberg University ref He co organized the Section on Animals and Society ref http www2.asanet.org sectionanimals Section on Animals and Society American Sociological Association ref of the American Sociological Association . In 2005 he received their Award for Distinguished Scholarship. ref http www2.asanet.org governance secawds2005.html Recipients of 2005 Section Awards American Sociological Association ref Nibert connects animal rights theory with other Economy economic and Sociology sociological theories. ref http books.google.es books?id mLFIGWSR5M4C&dq Animal Rights Human Rights. Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation&printsec frontcover&source bl&ots uK5qEt4N7N&sig VUeY2XvMogL01AjDoFJJwHHGK0I&hl es&ei 2BZGSrqtK9KMjAemqtX CQ&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 1 Animal Rights Human Rights. Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation ref According to Nibert, speciesism is an ideology that seeks to legitimize animal slavery, defending the discrimination against sentient beings on account of their species. He promotes veganism and abolitionism animal rights abolitionism . Nibert offers an Animals and Society course at Wittenberg University to spread awareness of animal oppression Increasingly, social scientists are focusing on the ethical, environmental and social consequences of human treatment of other animals. This course will examine how human societies have viewed and treated other animals and how the interactions and the structure of the relationship between humans and other animals affect both those animals and human social organization. For example, some scholars argue that cultural practices that define and use nonhuman animals as food contribute significantly to various forms of environmental devastation. Human health research ... more details
File Stock person bw.png thumb right 130px Personism suggests that having human genetics is not what makes one a moral agent with rights. Personism is a life stance that has been called the philosophy of Peter Singer . ref Rethinking Peter Singer a Christian Critique , by Gordon R. Preece ref ref Applied ethics a non consequentialist approach , by David S. Oderberg ref ref Humanism and Personism The false philosophy of Peter Singer , by Jenny Teichman ref It amounts to a branch of secular humanism with different rights criteria. ref http www.utilitarian.net singer by 200410 .htm ref The main distinction is that personists believe that rights are conferred to the extent that a creature is a person . ref http www.utilitarian.net singer by 200410 .htm ref Michael Tooley provides the relevant definition of a person, saying it is a creature that capable of desiring to continue as a subject of experience and other mental states . ref name anthology Bioethics An Anthology , by Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ref Thus Personism is Humanism, where the empathy and values are extended to the extent that the creature is a person apes get very similar rights, insects get vastly fewer rights, etc . Consequently, a member of the human species will not necessarily fit the definition of person and may not receive all the rights bestowed to a person. This philosophy is also supposedly open to the idea that such non human persons as Artificial intelligence machines , Animal rights animals , and extraterrestrial life depending on their sentience may be entitled to certain rights currently granted only to humans. Personism may have views in common with transhumanism . Views Peter Singer Singer argues that ...despite many individual exceptions, humanists have on the whole been unable to free themselves from one of the most central of these Christian dogmas the prejudice of Speciesism . ref name SingerBeyond http www.utilitarian.net singer by 200410 .htm ref Singer believes that personism has n ... more details
baby animals are all forms of speciesism since we wouldn t do those things to infants or the cognitively ... and Using Sentience as a Basis for Rights ref See also Speciesism Animal rights References reflist Further ... more details
. ref Ryder, Richard D. Animal Revolution Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism , p. 135. ref Activism ... D. Animal Revolution Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism , p. 135. Note that there is a date ... more details
Encyclopedia
top
