Your free book to action animal rights Grr! Graphics for Animal Liberation How to Do Animal Rights - And Win the War on Animals Contents About Chapter 1 Introduction to Doing Animal Rights 1. The Broad Setting 2. Mass Extinction 3. The Animal Holocaust Chapter 2 Know Your Animal Ethics & Animal Rights 1. Animal Ethics Background Ethics Importance of Animal Ethics Glossary Now a Biff From History How to Proceed? Ethical Theories Ethical Theories Compared Choosing an Ethical Theory Do Philosophical Ideas Work? 2. Animal Rights What are Animal Rights? Background to Animal Rights Major Dates for Rights Animal Rights Theory Fundamental Animal Ethical Positions Variations on Animal Rights Are Rights a Cure-all? Universal Declaration on Animals Arguments For & Against Animal Rights 3. Comparing Animal Philosophies Animal Ethics vs Animal Rights Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare Animal Rights vs Conservation Deep Ecology Conclusion Chapter 3 Campaigning Methods for Animal Rights 1. Introduction 2. Campaigning Where to Begin? Keeping Going Ten Essential Campaigning Tips More Tips 3. Civil Disobedience What Is Civil Disobedience Civil Disobedience & Animal Rights Arguments For & Against Civil Disobedience 4. Direct Action What is Direct Action? Examples of Animal Rights Direct Action Individual vs Mass Direct Action Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty The Battle of Brightlingsea Inset: Background to Brightlingsea Comparing Direct Actions Direct Action vs Civil Disobedience Efficacy of Direct Action 5. Action Planning What is an Action Plan? Why an Action Plan? Who Should Produce the Action Plan? Before You Begin Distinguish Operations From Administrations Creating Your Action Plan You Should Be Smart You Should Also SWOT Make It Happen Review It A Simple Action Plan Template 6. Lobbying Who Can Lobby? What & Whom to Lobby Start Lobbying How to Lobby Lobbying Techniques 7. Picketing What is Picketing? AR Picketing is Like Industrial Picketing How to Picket 8. Starting a Group What to Do? Name & Logo Finding Members A Constitution? The Group Committee Group Success Or Failure Newsletters Fundraising 9. Publicity 10. Leafleting Design Printing Distribution Posters & Placards Other Media 11.News Media Media Tips A Feature Article? The Letters Page News Release The Radio Radio Tips 12. Internet The Web Email Create Your Own Web Site Designing Your Web Site Capturing Viewers Discussion Boards Chapter 4 Activities for Animal Rights  1. Undercover Investigator  2. Video Activist  3. Animal Friendly Traveller  4. Preacher  5. Animal Rescuer  6. Investigative Reporter  7. Media Watcher  8. Philosopher  9. Flyer 10. Personal Activist 11. Animal Lawyer 12. Politician 13. Prisoner Supporter 14. Public & School Speaker 15. Aerial Snooper 16. Scientific Investigator 17. Solo Information Worker 18. Street Theatre Actor 19. Teacher 20. Voluntary Worker Abroad Chapter 5 The Law & Animal Rights 1. Terrorism Background Terrorism Defined Animal Extremism & Terrorism Does AR Extremism Work in Practice? 2. Violence or Nonviolence? Can We Justify Violence? Kinds of Violence Views For & Against Violence Is Violence Efficacious? Conclusion 3. The Law - US & Britain United States FBI vs Extremists Britain Extremist Tactics Establishment Fights Back 4. Police Arrest In the Street & At Your Door At the Police Station Your Tactics Know Your Rights Remaining Silent Your Lawyer Suing the Police Chapter 6 Assorted Animal Rights Activists 1.  Steven Best 2.  John Lawrence 3.  Andrew Linzey 4.  Richard Martin 5.  The McLibel Two 6.  Ingrid Newkirk 7.  Jill Phipps 8.  Henry Salt 9.  Henry Spira 10. Peter Singer 11. Tom Regan 12. Richard D Ryder Chapter 7 Animal Numbers Raised & Killed 1.  Summary 2.  Chickens 3.  Pigs 4.  Beef Cattle 5.  Fish 6.  Meat Consumption 7.  Fur-bearers 8.  Experimental Animals Chapter 8.  Extras! 1.  Mutilations of Farm Animals 2.  The Five Freedoms 3.  Painism 4.  The Forgotten Fur 5.  The Golden Rule 6.  Human Overpopulation 7.  Climate Change 8.  Think Like an Animal Appendix 1 World Scientists' Warning to Humanity. Appendix 2 Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare.

How to Do Animal Rights - And Win the War on Animals Chapter 7 Animal Numbers Raised & Killed 3. Pigs Summary People keep at least 2,000,000,000 pigs worldwide (Table 1). At least half the world's pigs live in China and 85 percent of pigs live in three countries: China, European Union and United States (Table 1). People kill about 1,200,000,000 pigs annually worldwide, an average of 23 million pigs a week (Table 2). About 85 per cent of the world's pigs die in three countries: China (12 million per week), European Union (five million per week) and United States (two million per week) (Table 2). The Chinese kill most pigs, about 50 percent of pigs slaughtered worldwide (Table 2). Table 1. The Number of Pigs People Keep Worldwide Table 1. Total Number of Pigs People Keep Worldwide. Top ten countries & Worldwide for years 2003 to 2008. Figures are in millions.   2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 China 1,061 1,103 1,167 1,183 1,124 1,119 European Union - 27 422 415 414 416 420 419 United States 161 163 165 167 171 174 Brazil 62 62 65 66 69 70 Russian Federation 52 52 52 54 56 60 Canada 46 48 48 48 47 46 Mexico 26 26 26 26 26 26 Japan 27 27 27 27 27 27 Korea Republic 24 23 22 22 23 23 Ukraine 16 14 13 15 16 17 Others 119 126 134 139 144 145 World Total 2,017 2,059 2,132 2,162 2,122 1,995 Source. Live Swine Selected Countries Summary. Production (Pig Crop), and Total Beginning Stocks. In Livestock and Poultry: World Markets and Trade. United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, Office of Global Analysis. Circular Series DL&P 2-07 November 2007. www.fas.usda.gov. (Web site accessed February 2008.) Notes for Table 1 Figures in this table are derived from the USDA (see Source below the table). USDA state that their data are based on "USDA-FAS attaché reports, official statistics, and results of office research" and that figures for 2007 are preliminary and are estimates for 2008. They also say their data include only those countries which are the major animal producers; therefore, World Total in this table is a minimum figure, less than the actual total. The USDA provide two sets of figures in their original data: 'Total Beginning Stocks' and 'Production Crop'. Beginning Stocks are the animals alive at the start of the year and breed the Production Crop. The number of Beginning Stocks remain roughly constant from year to year and it is largely the Production Crop that is slaughtered. Pig numbers in this table include both classes of pig and should give an estimate of the total number of pigs in countries. Livestock are impossible to count accurately; therefore I have rounded the figures in this table to avoid spurious accuracy and totals may not necessarily add up exactly. Table 2. The Number of Pigs People Kill Worldwide Table 2. Number of Pigs People Kill Worldwide. Top ten countries & Worldwide for years 2003 to 2008. Figures are in millions.   2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 China 598 637 685 680 630 649 European Union - 27 262 256 257 259 260 259 United States 102 103 104 106 108 110 Russian Federation 35 35 36 37 39 42 Brazil 30 30 32 33 36 36 Canada 31 33 33 32 32 31 Japan 17 17 17 17 17 17 Mexico 15 15 16 16 16 16 Korea Republic 16 15 14 14 15 15 Ukraine 7 6 7 8 8 8 Others 72 77 84 87 90 90 World Total 1,185 1,225 1,285 1,288 1,250 1,192 Source. Live Swine Selected Countries Summary. Production (Pig Crop). In Livestock and Poultry: World Markets and Trade. United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, Office of Global Analysis. Circular Series DL&P 2-07 November 2007. www.fas.usda.gov. (Web site accessed February 2008.) Notes for Table 2 Notes for Table 1 also apply to this table. Other Statistical Sources Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) Agriculture and Food — Livestock: Swine stocks. Earth Trends, World Resources Institute. www.wri.org. (Web site accessed January 2007.) Earth Trends obtain their data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), FAOSTAT on-line statistical service (FAO: Rome, 2005). FAO figures are from 'spot counts'. A spot count is a census of animals on one day in the year (eg 1 July or 31 December). A spot count does not count all the animals born during the year (animals may have died before the spot count or born after it and not counted). Therefore FAO figures consistently underestimate the total number of animals. China Statistical Yearbook 2006 13-20 Number of Livestock. China Statistical Yearbook 2006. National Bureau of Statistics of China. www.stats.gov.cn. (Web site accessed March 2008.) The USDA data above on pig numbers and slaughter agree reasonably will with data about pigs in China, differing by plus or minus a few million pigs for each year data is given.

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