All forms of animal abuse are inexcusable, and we work to abolish the use of animals in experimentation, clothing, entertainment, and food. We examine, engage and educate all stakeholders - the consumers and the dealers, the voters and the statesmen, the revolutionaries and the orthodox.
Alert: Human Rights Scandal in Austria...more here
Action Alert: 12th June- 5th Aug: Zippos Circus in Scotland...more here
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Read the Latest Update (18th July) here
Pretty busy as usual – things are getting exciting and animal rights are beginning to make more sense to people. Discussion group meets for the first time next Tuesday, 7pm at ACE and our main aim is to make animal rights and environmental issues more meaningful in...read more |
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"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?" ~Jeremy Bentham
What are Animal Rights? Simply put, it’s the philosophy that all animals have a right to life free from deliberate pain and suffering inflicted upon them and be free from human cruelty and exploitation —just as we do. |
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Why? We aren't all equal—animals are different from people.
We don't think animals should vote, but we don't think they should be gassed, electrocuted, clubbed to death, drowned, shocked, infected, burned, poisoned, shot, surgically mutilated or stomped on either. Animal Rights is about respect - not all of us love all groups, but still respect their rights to live without deliberate pain and suffering. Where should one draw the line: animals, plants, bacteria? AR philosophy asserts that rights are to be accorded to creatures that have the capacity to experience pain, to suffer, and to be a "subject of a life". Such a capacity is definitely not found in bacteria. Plants also lack a central nervous system and thus neither feel pain nor suffer. What's the big fuss? We've been doing this for years, so it must be okay. Slavery, sexism and other forms of oppression existed for years before a small, vocal minority identified these practices as cruel, irrational and unjustified. And beliefs and actions that were once normal and commonplace are now perceived as horrific and atrocious. Speciesism (the practice of discriminating on the basis of species) is no different from sexism, racism and ageism. |
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