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The rights or otherwise of animals are debated here between STEVEN ROSE and JOLYON JENKINS. Both articles appeared originally in
The rights or otherwise of animals are debated here between STEVEN ROSE and JOLYON JENKINS. Both ...
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Do animals have rights
animal rights movement care little for that sort of democratic control. They want to have their argument ... The first statement is plain wrong; the second, the claim that animals have "rights", is ... decision is arbitrary — that it is we, as humans, who are conferring rights on animals — not the animals ...
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Do animals have rights?
I don't speak for the animal rights movement, but I find Rose's arguments suffer from the same ... with animals. But Rose's conception of rights is equally odd: surely, the whole point is that ... animal rights at all, but about the duties we have just because we are human." This is just ...
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For the animals
institutionalised abuse of animals". By speaking for animals rights, they "celebrate a band of stewardship ... For the animals In defense of animals Various artists Shock Records Reviewed by John-Paul Nassif ... animals are slaughtered per year. We can see "corpses neatly packed" that line our grocery ...
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Burma: Saving animals, killing people
Burma: Saving animals, killing people By Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy Outside a spartan ... According to human rights monitors who have interviewed refugees fleeing from the area and visited the ... to work for the SLORC in the past 18 months. In the same period, dozens of international human rights ...
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Animal Lib billboards censorsed
Animal Lib billboards censorsed By Karen Fredericks SYDNEY — Animal Liberation posters publicising ... Farmers Association. Animal Liberation says that the posters were removed sometime between the hours of ... midnight and 4 a.m. on August 16 despite a contract for their display until September 15. Animal Liberation ...
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Circus protest
Circus protest By Stephen Bull ADELAIDE — About 100 animal rights supporters braved the rain and ... wind at Bonython Park on October 1 to protest against the use of animals in circuses. Animal Liberation ... to the plight of circus animals. Demonstrators displayed signs and banners condemning the ...
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Election tricks from Brazilian right
put new restrictions on opposition parties' rights to broadcast and disseminate their views. The ... original law, enacted before the 1989 election, gave all electoral parties the right to have daily access, ... PT campaign ads used animation, film and video montage, comedy skits and fresh pop music to get the ...
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Bangladeshi women organise for their rights
FERNANDES and MICHAEL TARDIF talked to KHUSHI KABIR, women's rights activist and chairperson of ADAB ... fundamentalists want to suppress. Tasleema Nasreen has been portrayed as a champion of women's rights in the ... of the rights of lower class women. How successfully has the left taken up the challenges that the ...
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Palestine's struggle for human rights
because not in my wildest dreams could I ever think that you have an area where you have food for animals ... after 1967. The Israeli government does not want to give us legislative rights over our land and its ... Likud and the right. The whole government might collapse because the left is not strong enough to ...
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Revolution in the hen house?
Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights & Social Justice By Ted Benton Verso, 1993. 246 pp., ... I reckon that us Homo sapiens need to stick together. Indeed, to claim that animal rights are on a par with ... such "rights" were discovered. For some, to project rights onto animals is seen to enrich our ...
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Call to end use of traps
Call to end use of traps SYDNEY — Animal rights activists demonstrated outside Parliament House on ... theoretically banned under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, but a loophole under the Pastures ... A spokesperson for Save Animals From Exploitation, Scott Cardimatis, said that he had recently collected ...
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Blinkered thinking on medical research
the greed and selfishness of our species is a major imperative. The right of humans to exploit the ... environment and other animals is increasingly being questioned. Most of us are hidebound by established ... own widely held beliefs, seldom questioned, is that laboratory animals are "necessary" for ...
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Write on
no right to submit non-human animals to suffering for the mere benefit of our palates. Riley clutches ... Speciesism is the idea that humans are inherently superior to non-human animals. Riley refers to Charles ... Darwin's theory of evolution. Peter Singer, a philosopher instrumental in founding the animal liberation ...
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Action updates
(Student Animal Rights Activists). Jo Bell from Animal Liberation criticised the NSW Prevention of Cruelty ... — Animal Liberation is conducting a poster campaign in NSW on factory-farmed pigs. Despite some legal ... to Animals Act for excluding stock or habitually caged animals in its requirement for all animals to ...
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Write on
Humans and animals Laura Bahnisch (Write on, #149) accuses Dave Riley ("Becoming Human", ... GLW #147) of speciesism for pointing to the fundamental distinction between human nature and animal ... nature. Whilst it is often commonplace to compare human and animal behaviour (and in some cases even ...
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On the box
Man's Way — Henry Spira has been one of the most effective animal rights campaigners of the past 20 ... His campaigns probably saved the lives of millions of animals. SBS, Friday, August 22, 8.30pm. The ...
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Delightful and charming
behind the scenes, you feel you have witnessed a work of art. From the producer and director right ... through the technicians, voice actors, animal trainers, animators and so on who put it together, each has ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
a right, equal to my own, to go for a life of lesser alienation from all other people including me." ... "prove" we are doing the right thing. This is too often done in orthodox science; more often still in ... Liberal government's strings. Linda Kaucher Sydney Animal cruelty Once again Animal Liberation was ...
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George Orwell without barrow-pushing
of Allan Ginsberg. This biography joins the group. All are works of art in their own right; you come ... with the Loyalists while he was at the front, and who influenced the writing of Animal Farm to the ... rejected Homage to Catalonia and Animal Farm because they didn't conform to the party line on ...