Your free online book to action animal rights Permission You may copy the text of How to Do Animal Rights online for your non-profit personal use to promote animal rights.   Guestbook Please read and comment.   How to Do Animal Rights Contents About What's This Free Online Book About? The Author Email Chapter 1.  Introduction to Doing Animal Rights 1. The Broad Setting The Big Problem Being Active The Best Animal Rights Attitude The Expanding Circle The Great Leap 2. Mass Extinction The Sixth Extinction The Mega Devastators Biocide? 3. The Animal Holocaust What is the Animal Holocaust? Incredible Killing Not Ours to Abuse The Most Effective Thing You Can Do Chapter 2.  Know Your Animal Ethics & Animal Rights 1. Animal Ethics Background Ethics Importance of Animal Ethics Glossary Some 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 Rights Positions Variations on Animal Rights Are Rights a Cure-all? 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 4. Universal Declaration of Animal Rights UN Universal Declaration Declaration of Animal Welfare Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare Chapter 3.  Campaigning Methods for Animal Rights 1. Campaigning Introduction Your Right to Campaign Where to Begin? Keeping Going 10 Essential Campaigning Tips More Tips 2. Civil Disobedience What is Civil Disobedience? Civil Disobedience & Animal Rights Hunt Sabotage Arguments For & Against Civil Disobedience 3. Direct Action What is Direct Action? Examples of Animal Rights Direct Action Individual vs Mass Direct Action Sea Shepherd Conservation Society The Battle of Brightlingsea Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty Inset: Background to Brightlingsea Comparing Direct Actions Direct Action vs Civil Disobedience Efficacy of Direct Action Ethical Code of Practice 4. Action Planning What is an Action Plan? Why an Action Plan? Who Should Produce the Action Plan? Before You Begin Operations & Administrations Creating Your Action Plan You Should Be Smart You Should Also SWOT Make It Happen Review A Simple Action Plan 5. Lobbying What is Lobbying? Who Can Lobby? What & Whom to Lobby Start Lobbying How to Lobby Lobbying Techniques 6. Picketing What is Picketing? AR Picketing is Like Industrial Picketing How to Picket Hitting Back 7. Starting a Group Anyone Can Start a Group What to Do? Name & Logo Finding Members A Constitution? The Group Committee Group Success or Failure Newsletters Fundraising 8. Leafleting Why Leafleting? Design Printing Distribution Posters & Placards 9. News Media Why the News Media? Make it Newsworthy Media Tips A Feature Article? The Letters Page News Release The Radio Radio Tips 10. Internet Why the Internet? The Web Email Create Your Own Web Site / Blog 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. Animal 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 A Definition of Terrorism Background to Terrorism But What Really is Terrorism? Animal Extremism & Terrorism Does AR Extremism Work in Practice? Conclusion 2. Violence or Nonviolence? Scope of AR Extremism 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 Ben Prepared In the Street & At Your Door At the Police Station Your Tactics Know Your Rights Remaining Silent Having a Lawyer Present 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. Three Philosophers Chapter 7.  Numbers of Animal 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 - World Scientists' Warning to Humanity

Italiano   Español How to Do Animal Rights About What is How to Do Animal Rights About? You do not have to scream emotional abuse at people in the street or commit arson to work for animal rights. This completely free online book, How to Do Animal Rights, shows you how to work for animal rights legally and with confidence. Written concisely in plain English it briefs you about doing animal rights as an activity and informs you about animal rights ethics so that you can defend your actions rationally. You can now buy the text of How to Do Animal Rights as a printed book version, 348 pages closely following the online text - click the graphic on right. Topics covered in How to Do Animal Rights include the major problems that humanity is causing animal life, the moral philosophy underlying animal rights, the major methods of campaigning, practical activities for promoting animal rights, how to deal with possible clashes with the police, biographical sketches of well-known animal rights activists from all walks of life, and statistics on human usage of animals. Read How to Do Animal Rights to: Recognise how humanity is devastating animals globally (Chapter 1). Know what animal rights means and how it differs from other views (Chapter 2). Understand activist methods that will further your activism (Chapter 3). Discover practical animal rights activities you can do (Chapter 4). Be aware of potential conflict with the law and how you can handle it (Chapter 5). Find inspiration from a selection of historical and modern animal rights activists (Chapter 6). Gasp at the numbers of animals humans kill (Chapter 7) Add to your armoury topics that the well-rounded animal activist should know (Chapter 8). You can work for animal rights low-key or high-key, by yourself or with like-minded people. But above all - do it! How to Do Animal Rights should appeal to novices and would-be activists, from school teenager to granny, anarchist to city banker, as well as to experienced animal rights campaigners. The Author I started writing How to Do Animal Rights in 2007 because there were no published books on how to do animal rights and one badly needed writing. I'm an animal rights activist, conservationist and biologist, with a bachelor degree in biology and psychology and a doctorate in animal behavioural ecology. Email Email me at ([email protected]). Please type ANIMALS in the subject field or your email may be lost in spam! Ben Isacat (nom de plume of Roger Panaman)

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