Animal rights

Animal rights, or animal liberation, is the movement to protect non-human animals from being exploited by humans. It is a radical movement, insofar as it aims not merely to attain more humane treatment for animals, but to include many animals within the moral community — that is, all those whose basic interests (for example, in not being made to suffer unnecessarily) ought to be given the same consideration as our own similar interests. The claim, in other words, is that non-human animals must no longer be regarded legally or morally as property, or treated merely as resources for human purposes, but should instead be regarded as persons. To this end the movement advocates that many animals be given legal rights to protect their basic interests.

External links

Animal rights in philosophy and law

• The Tom Regan Animal Rights Archive.
• Peter Singer Links.
• Animal Law Project.
• animal-rights.de.
• Ethical foundations of animal rights
• The Animal Rights Library
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on The Moral Status of Animals
• The Center on Animal Liberation Affairs (CALA)

Animal rights resources

• Animal Rights News & Resources (Northern California and beyond)
• Animal Rights Resources
• PATHWAI
• Anesthesia's Wonderland

Animal rights organizations

• Action for Animals
• Animal Aid
• Animal Liberation Victoria (ALV)
• Animal Liberation (Maqi)
• Animal Rights Kollective (ARKII)
• Animal Rights International (ARI)
• Christian Vegetarian Association (CVA)
• Compassion Over Killing (COK)
• Compassionate Action for Animals
• The Fund for Animals
• Hunt Saboteurs Association
• Mercy for Animals
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
• Protecting Animals USA
• Rights for Animals
• Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA)
• Society of Ethical & Religious Vegetarians (SERV)
• Toronto Animal Rights Society
• United Poultry Concerns (UPC)
• Vegan Outreach

Animal rights Online Community

• VeggieBoards (message board and recipes)
• A.P.E. Animal Earth Protectors (The Green Zones)
• Peta2 (Question Reality Question Authority)
• International Animal Rights Community (ARCo)

Animal rights directories

• LookSmart - Animal Rights
• Open Directory Project - Animal Rights
• Yahoo! - Animal Rights
• Anesthesia's Wonderland Forums

Ethical concerns

• Which animals feel pain?
• Pain in Animals and Humans
• Animals and other living things: their interests, mental capacities and moral entitlements
• Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status by David DeGrazia - A Review Essay