Animal Rights
Animal rights is the philosophy in which some, or all, animals are entitled to the possession of their own existence and that their most basic interests—such as the need to avoid suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings. That is, some species of animals have the right to be treated as individuals, with their own desires and needs, rather than as an unfeeling property.Its advocates oppose the assignment of moral value and fundamental protections on the basis of species membership alone—an idea known since 1970 as speciesism, when the term was coined by Richard D. …
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LCO: Law Commission of Ontario · 14 March 2024 English
Commissioner is now an employee of the Auditor General and is expected to perform the duties assigned by the Auditor General.120 Furthermore, it is now the Downgrading the Environmental Auditor …
recommended that governments “[m] ecocentric (animal rights, species’ rights or rights inimize uncertainty: …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 1 December 2023 English
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required too much upkeep to be profitable, and animal rights groups have seen to it that the dolphins, who …
National Association of Women and the Law · 27 November 2023 English
OUR MISSION The National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL), founded in 1974, is a not-for-profit feminist organization that works to achieve substantive equality and the realization of human …
in sexual and domestic violence, family law, animal rights, and gender and language. 9 ANNUAL REPORT • …
CSPI: Centre for Science in the Public Interest · 28 June 2023 English
In particular, we thank your administration for making the critical and overdue commitment to updating and implementing the Food Service Guidelines for Federal Facilities (FSG). [...] Currently, the federal government’s …
Policy Action Council Chilis on Wheels Christian Animal Rights Association City Blossoms Climate Hawks Vote … Veggielution Virginia Fresh Match Voters For Animal Rights Wallace Center at Winrock International WANDA: …
Fraser Institute · 3 March 2023 English
environmental ethics as promoted by Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Almanac . Accordingly, we should honour animal rights, recycle even when doing so does not save resources, and protect land from development. All of …
(Leopold, 1966). Accordingly we should honour animal rights, recycle even when doing so does not save resources …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 28 February 2023 English
For a change Orpheus / listens to the other / musicians once the hum / of his lyre no longer / hangs like moss from branches / in the forest …
has been enriched by Eva Meijer’s books on animal rights, Animal Languages (mit Press, 2016) and When …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 February 2023 English
Concern over ecological and environmental problems grows daily, and many believe we’re at a critical tipping point. Scientists, social thinkers, public officials, and the public recognize that failure to understand …
Will Kymlicka, Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). See …
Public Order Emergency Commission (Canada) · 7 December 2022 English
GORDON CAMERON: The way we’ve found it 17 convenient to describe it to those who aren’t familiar with the 18 bureaucracy of the Service is to describe you as the …
be, like, extreme 25 environmental groups or animal rights types, anti-abortion; I 26 mean, the extreme …
PollutionWatch · 19 October 2022 English
I want to especially thank CELA, Nature Canada, Ecojustice, Environmental Defense, David Suzuki Foundation, and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, for all your advocacy and for informing …
land dispossession; violation of human and animal rights; and violation of environmental rights of all …
CHA: Canadian Historical Association · 12 July 2022 French
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« Ceta- ceans in the City : Orca Captivity, Animal Rights, and Environmental Values in Vancouver », dans …