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Chapter 12

Animal Rights Art: posters, paintings, cartoons, infographics
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Free Use

You may freely use for your not-for-profit animal rights work all the artwork on this page and on this web site (paintings, posters, silhouettes, infographics and cartoons - signed Ben Isacat). Incorporate them into flyers, leaflets, newsletters, web sites, blogs or books. Please place a link to this page with each one so that other animal rightists may find and use them. If you need one of the graphics for an animal rights book or magazine, email me for a larger version.

You can buy the paintings as prints and greeting cards (click on any of the first few paintings below). They make ideal animal rights gifts and wall decorations. All the artwork on this web site is exclusively produced for How to Do Animal Rights.

Better still, take up the paint brush (whether paint box or digital) and be an artist for animal rights: paint illustrations or fine art, design flyers and posters, impart knowledge with infographics, draw cartoons and think up silhouettes (see some below). Make your point with good humour - it goes furthest in all respects!

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Animal Rights Motto: The greatest threat to people is ignorance. The greatest threat to animals is ignorant people.)

Click to buy print. (Main text for translation: Justification for animal rights? Animals are like humans in certain ways. Sentient animals feel pleasure, pain and emotions: what happens to them matters to them, unlike what happens to sticks and stones. So, if human rights, then animal rights.)

Click to buy print. (Main text for translation: Almost everyone is guilty of causing an animal holocaust. Every year worldwide people kill at least one billion pigs, 50 billion chickens, 35 million furbearers, 40 million+ lab animals, 300 million beef cattle, 500 million sheep and goats, 130 million+ tonnes of fish...and lots, lots more. Plus driving countless wild species to extinction.)

Click to buy print. (Main text for translation: We live in an animal holocaust. Every year worldwide people kill at least 50 billion chickens, one billion pigs, 35 million furbearers, 300 million beef cattle, 40 million lab animals, 500 million sheep and goats, 130 million tonnes of fish...and that's not all.)

Click to buy print. (Main text for translation: The Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare: Freedom to express normal behaviour. Freedom from pain, injury and disease. Freedom from hunger and thirst. Freedom from fear and distress. Freedom from discomfort.)

Click to buy print. (Main text for translation: What Zoos Teach. It's all right to cage animals if we can justify it with an excuse... Animals exist for humans and not as individuals... Humans are superior to animals...

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Homo sapiens is causing the Sixth Extinction.)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Hope Now.)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Climate Change, Factory Farming, Pollution, Fur Trade, Population Explosion, Habitat Loss, Exploitation, Unconcern.)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Industry breeds six billion egg-laying hens annually. A male chick hatches for every hen. Males don't lay eggs so are killed. The chicks make animal feed, pet food, cheap human food and fertilizer.)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Resource Use).

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Better not another tot. 7+ billion more. Abyss of climage change.)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. Voltaire (1694 - 1779)).

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Always question what we know, keep a healthy scepticism about what people tell us, and constantly question our beliefs - especially when we think we are right!)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Animal Rights Motto: The greatest threat to people is ignorance. The greatest threat to animals is ignorant people.)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic, and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests. Henry Spira, Fighting to Win. In Peter Singer: In Defence of Animals. 1985. Text on cross: We die for diners.)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: People kill 50 billion of us chickens every year. What's wrong with humanity?)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Morality has evolved by natural selection, like any other set of evolved characteristics (ears, feet, stamina). It's not sacred, immutable or God-given.)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: All In a Hamburger: Obesity. Biocide. Violence. Environmental Destruction. Ruin. Health Risk. Greed. Yuk. Ignorance. Deforestation. Cruelty. Animal Suffering & Pain. Finger Sucking Poison.)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: If Pigs Could Fly. People kill 2,000,000 pigs a week in the US...in China they kill 12,000,000 pigs per week. People have the knife in for pigs. What squeaks and weighs over 100 million tonnes? Answer - all the pigs people kill in one year. Data: US Department of Agriculture.)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Animal rights born of empathy upheld by reason. Sustained by hope.)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: I heard a loud unending scream piercing nature. Edvard Munch. Animal Holocaust. Mass Extinction. Climate Change.)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Animal Rights.)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Animal Rights. just two words two just words)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Jump in somewhere (after careful thought) - even if the way ahead is uncertain. Get stuck in and fight your corner! Good luck and enjoy!

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Even the most emotional opponents, if they can be made to see sense, are susceptible to rational argument.)

Click to buy print. (Text for translation: Denying the evolutionary roots of human morality is like arriving at the top of a tower and declaring the rest of the building irrelevant. Frans de Waal. Primates and Philosophers. 2006.)

Animal Rights Silhouettes - make silhouettes yourself !

Silhouettes tell a story, simply, without words, in one to six frames. The meaning of the silhouettes may not be clear at first, they are allegories, must be mulled over, and each silhouette may have more than one interpretation and moral. Silhouettes can act as starting points for exploration and discussion about animal rights issues (ideal for schools).

Most of the craft of making silhouettes is thinking; the rest is pen work. Composing an animal rights silhouette with anger in your heart is relatively easy (rather like the sad silhouette below of the lion at the zoo / circus); incorporating good humour into your silhouettes is more difficult but more effective for getting your message across.

Click on each silhouette to go to the page where it is displayed.





















Animal Rights Information Graphics

Click to enlarge. Riddle: what goes cluck, cluck, cluck and has 40 billion heads? Answer: all the chickens people kill in one year. (Since this infographic was designed in 2011, the figure has increased to 50 billion chickens.)

Click to enlarge. Riddle: what squeaks and weighs over 100 million tonnes? Answer: all the pigs people kill in one year.

More Animal Rights Posters

Use them freely for your non-profit animal rights work. Click to buy as prints.

Uncle Sam says: Ain't animals worth fighting for? Elist today! Animal Rights.

Uncle Sam says: The greatest threat to people is ignorance. The greatest threat to animals is ignorant people.

The Lord Kitchener says: Animal rights need YOU.

The greatest threat to people is ignorance. The greatest threat to animals is ignorant people.

The People's Commissar says: All comrads! Defend animals from capitalist imperialist aggression!

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