Your free online book to action animal rights Buy the book version of How to Do Animal Rights - 348 pages, from Cafepress. 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 How to Do Animal Rights Chapter 2 Introduction to Doing Animal Rights 4. Declaration of Animal Rights UN Universal Declaration Questions about human welfare and about nature conservation are addressed at the highest levels of government. They are debated at international meetings and agreements among nations are codified in binding Charters, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on Biodiversity are examples. Yet animals have no worldwide protection, presumably because they are so important a part of human economic exploitation. The lack of success in shaping internationally binding charters on animal rights has not been for want of trying. People have attempted to identify and advance the rights of animals at least since the 18th century. Henry Salt (1851 - 1939) is credited with writing the first book on animal rights, published in 1892 and subsequently, and he traced efforts back to John Lawrence (1753 - 1839) one of the earliest writers in modern times on animal rights and welfare. Lawrence argued in his 1796 book, A Philosophical and Practical Treatise on Horses and the Moral Duties of Man Towards Brute Creation, that we have to care for animals and common law should support this principle in practice. (For more about Salt and Lawrence see Chapter 6.) The 20th century saw a number of international declarations supporting animal rights. Perhaps the most prominent venture was the announcement (5) in 1978 by the United Nation�s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) of the Universal Declaration of Animal Rights. Among the Declaration's pronouncements are that all animals have the same rights to existence, no animal shall be ill-treated or subject to cruelty, animals shall command the protection of law, and dead animals shall be treated with respect. The Declaration, however, waned and faded away before it could reach significant levels of international agreement. Declaration on Animal Welfare More recently some of the world's leading animal welfare organisations have started campaigning for the United Nations to adopt a new declaration, this time on the welfare of animals: the Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare (draft reproduced below). Why welfare and not rights? Possibly the softer option of welfare is easier for people to accept, so that this new declaration has a better chance of being endorsed and enduring. The animal organisations behind this new declaration envisage that signatory countries to the document will recognise animals as sentient beings. They hope their Declaration will make animal welfare an important global issue, pioneer the way for legally binding international agreements on animal welfare and hasten a better deal for animals worldwide. The Declaration would also underscore the importance of animal welfare as part of the moral development of humanity. So far a number of United Nations member states are acting as a steering group to advance the initiative at the UN. But achieving this Declaration for animals will be a long and twisting journey. To illustrate, the Convention on the Rights of the Child took thirty years of effort before the UN adopted it. References (1) Salt, Henry. Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress. G Bell & Sons: London, 1894. Reprinted 1980 by Macmillan & Co: New York and by Centaur Press: London. (2) Lawrence, John. A Philosophical and Practical Treatise on Horses and the Moral Duties of Man Towards Brute Creation. T N Longman: London. 1796. (3) The Times, 17 October 1978. A draft copy of the Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare, composed by a number of animal welfare organisations, is reproduced below. *** Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare PREAMBLE The Manila Conference on Animal Welfare recognizes: That animal welfare is an issue worth consideration by governments. That the promotion of animal welfare requires collective action and all stakeholders and affected parties must be involved. That work on animal welfare is a continuous process A PROPOSAL FOR A DECLARATION ON ANIMAL WELFARE ARISING FROM THE MANILA CONFERENCE RECOGNIZING that animals are living, sentient beings and therefore deserve due consideration and respect; RECOGNIZING that animal welfare includes animal health; RECOGNIZING that humans share this planet with other species and other forms of life and that all forms of life co-exist within an interdependent ecosystem; RECOGNIZING that, although there are significant social, economic, religious and cultural differences between human societies, each should care for and treat animals in a humane and sustainable manner; AGREEING that the term nation includes peoples, civil society and the state; ACKNOWLEDGING that many nations already have a system of legal protection for animals, both domestic and wild; SEEKING to ensure the continued effectiveness of these systems and the development of better and more comprehensive animal welfare provisions; ACKNOWLEDGING that the humane use of animals can have major benefits for humans; AWARE that the "five freedoms (freedom from hunger, thirst and malnutrition; freedom from fear and distress; freedom from physical and thermal discomfort; freedom from pain, injury and disease; and freedom to express normal patterns of behaviour) " and the "three Rs (reduction in numbers of animals, refinement of experimental methods and replacement of animals with nonanimal techniques)" provide valuable guidance for the use of animals; RECOGNIZING that the provisions contained in this declaration do not affect the rights of any nation; PRINCIPLES OF THE DECLARATION: 1. The welfare of animals shall be a common objective for all nations; 2. The standards of animal welfare attained by each nation shall be promoted, recognized and observed by improved measures, nationally and internationally, respecting social and economic considerations and religious and cultural traditions; 3. All appropriate steps shall be taken by nations to prevent cruelty to animals and to reduce their suffering; 4. Appropriate standards on the welfare of animals be further developed and elaborated such as, but not limited to, those governing the use and management of farm animals, companion animals, animals in scientific research, draught animals, wildlife animals and animals in recreation. ***

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