Your free book to action animal rights Grr! Graphics for Animal Liberation How to Do Animal Rights - And Win the War on Animals 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 8 Extras 4. The Forgotten Fur Most people have heard of fur coats, but have you heard about fur brushes, the forgotten fur? Fur brushes are used in the fine arts and cosmetics industries by artists and beauticians. People turn killed wild and farmed animals into brushes. Is this necessary? Many people would say that a good artist can paint with just about anything and that beauty should be cruelty-free. The Forgotten Fur The animal that artists prize most for making the best - and most expensive - paint brush is the Siberian weasel (Mustela sibirica). The weasel lives in Siberia, China and other parts of Asia. The fur trade commonly calls the weasel a kolinsky. A kolinsky fur brush has unequalled springiness, responsiveness and long life. It is the pre-eminent art brush, allowing an artist extremely fine application control. Siberian weasels wear russet coloured fur, live throughout the taiga's forested river valleys and swim in its lakes. They are about as long as two A4 pages are wide (40 cm or 16 ins) - plus a long bushy tail. They eat rabbits, rodents, insects and fruit and can live up to six years, but do not usually survive more than two years in the wild. They are cousins of the wolverine, badger, mink, sable and stoat. Trapping Trappers have caught Siberian weasels for the fur industry since the 16th century and the animals are much sort after by the trade. The weasels must live in the freezing Siberian climate for their fur to grow to the right length and thickness required by the fur trade; fur from farmed animals in warmer climates is inferior. Trappers set out lines of leghold traps or snares all around and by morning many weasels are frozen dead. Preparation Brushes are made by hand. A fur dealer receives the pelts and tails, cleans, cuts and grads the fur and sends bundles to the brush manufacturer. The brushmaker carefully sorts the hairs, picks out and discards poor individual hairs, and packs the right quantity into a ferrule, the small metal cylinder of a brush, ready for the stick to be added. A big manufacturer of fine art material can produce 30,000 brushes a week. Other Brush Animals The type of hair that brushes are made from in the cosmetics trade is never printed on brush handles, so it is difficult to know what a brush is made of just by looking at it. Things are slightly easier in the arts world as brushes often bear labels painted on their handles. However, in the arts world not all brushes labelled kolinsky, or a variation of the name, are necessarily Siberian weasel; a brush may hold fur from related animals, for instance sable, marten or mink, and may or may not have some kolinsky fur mixed in. Another animal-in-a-brush is sable, the next best fur to kolinsky and sometimes confused with it. Brushes labelled sable may comes from a sable or from a related animal, like marten or mink. These animals are trapped in the wild like the Siberian weasel or grown on fur farms. Other animals turned into brushes are as diverse as mongoose, hog and goat. Brushes with the name sabeline are nothing to do with sables but are made from cattle hair. So-called camel brushes do not come from camels but from ox, pony, squirrel, sheep or some other creature. Synthetic Brushes Bushes made from synthetic fibres, such as nylon or polyester, form a large and growing market. Brushes with synthetic fibres are much less expensive than fur brushes, but animal hair may be mixed in with some of them. To confuse matters, some synthetic brushes are labelled with animal or animal-like names, for instance White Sable, Golden Sable and Erminette. So do good artists need animals to paint with? Must beauty be based on dead animals? People who frown on wearing fur seldom check their brushes. Testing for Fur You may want to know whether fur you see in apparel is real or synthetic. Here are some simple and quick checks. However, the better that fake fur simulates real fur the more difficult it is to tell them apart. Some fake fur seems convincingly real. 1. Roll the hair between your fingers Real fur is soft and slips about easily. Fake fur is course and difficult to role between your fingers. 2. Look at colour & length Real fur is made up of long topfur overlaying short dense underfur. Fake fur hairs are often all the same length and colour. 3. Examine the base Real fur is embedded in animal skin tanned as leather. Fake fur is embedded in other, synthetic, material. 4. Burn it (pull out quite a few hairs) Real fur burns and smells like human hair. Fake fur burns and smells like plastic. You have got to have a good nose for this test.

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.