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.

See also

• Altruism in animals
• Animal liberation movement
• List of animal welfare and animal rights groups
• List of animal rights groups
• Animal testing, SHAC
• Animal welfare
• Ahimsa
• Barry Horne
• Blood sport
• Cinci Freedom
• GANDALF trial
• Great ape personhood
• Imitation meat, In vitro meat
• Livestock
• Veganism, Vegetarianism
• Vivisection
• Painism
• Speciesism
• Richard D. Ryder, Steven Best, Peter Singer, Tom Regan
• Animal Liberation Front
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
• British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection