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 8. Experimental Animals Estimates for the number of experimental or laboratory animals are rough because some countries keep incomplete or no records. The United States for example does not count certain animals, many of them rats and mice. Some reports state that the US uses 18 million to 23 million animals per year. Britain may keep more reliable and detailed data than any other country on numbers, species and the purpose experimental animals are put to and some of these details are summarised below. Britain is said to have the most stringent laws concerning laboratory animals. However, this strength is only relative to other countries. Table 1. Number of Experimental (Laboratory) Animals Various estimates of the total number of animals people use for experimental purposes range between 40 million and 100 million animals. Japan and United States use more experimental animals than all other countries combined. Six countries using the largest numbers of experimental animals are Japan, United States, Britain, Canada, France and Germany. These six countries combined use around half the experimental animals worldwide. Table 1. Number of Experimental (Laboratory) Animals. The Six Highest-using Countries & Worldwide, for 2000. Japan 12,000,000+  United States 12,000,000+  Britain 2 - 3,000,000   Canada 2 - 3,000,000   France 2 - 3,000,000   Germany 2 - 3,000,000   Worldwide 40,000,000 to 100,000,000   Table 2. Number and Kind of Experimental Animals in Britain Over 2.6 million animals are used as experimental animals in Britain annually. Of these animals 80 per cent are rodents, ten per cent are fish, five per cent are birds, three per cent are mammals and less than one per cent are reptiles and amphibians. Table 2. Number and Kind of Experimental Animals in Britain in 2000 Kind of Animal Number of Animals Percentage of Total Mice 1,605,722 60 Rats 524,168 20 Other rodents (eg hamsters & guinea-pigs) 69,799  3 Rabbits 27,389  1 Cats 613 < 0.1 Dogs 4,745 < 1 Ferrets 1,358 < 0.1 Other carnivores 663 < 0.1 Horses & donkeys 452 < 0.1 Pigs 8,326 < 1 Goats 325 < 0.1 Sheep 16,078 < 1 Cattle 6,801 < 1 Deer 160 < 0.1 Primates (eg macaques & marmosets) 2,951 < 1 Other mammals 457 < 0.1 Birds 120,505  4 Reptiles 63 < 0.1 Amphibians 9,661 < 1 Fish 242,757  9 Total 2,642,993 100 Source: Statistics of Scientific Procedures 1987-00. Home Office. Table 3. Number of Procedures on Experimental Animals in Britain Experimenters in Britain annually carry out over 2.7 million experiments (procedures) on animals (taking 2000 as a typical year). The table shows the annual number of procedures by main purpose, a procedure being a single experiment on one animal. The total number of experiments (ie procedures) in the table is more than the total number of experimental animals (in Table 2) because the same animal can be used more than once. Animals are no longer used in Britain for testing cosmetics ingredients, finished products, or alcohol and tobacco products, and the use of chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans was banned. Over five million experimental animals were used per year in Britain in the mid-1970's. The number dropped to 2.7 million in 1996 and has stayed around that figure since. Table 3. Number of Procedures on Experimental Animals in Britain in 2000. Main Purpose Number of Procedures Percentage Medicine 929,700     34 Research 872,800     32 Breeding 699,600     26 Toxicity testing 161,200       6 Education & Other 51,400       2 Total 2,714,700    100  Source: Statistics of Scientific Procedures 1987-00. Home Office.

How to Do Animal Rights - And Win the War on Animals. First published on the Web: April 2008. © Roger (Ben) Panaman, April 2008. All rights reserved.