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Animal rights/human rights: entanglements of oppression and liberation By David Alan Nibert - Google Books
Animal rights/human rights: entanglements of oppression and liberation
By David Alan Nibert
Carta desde un mundo vegano | Igualdad Animal || Educar, Investigar & Liberar
"Queridos amigos y compañeros activistas,
en un momento en que la mayoría de organizaciones de derechos animales están activamente promoviendo, recompensando y defendiendo los productos animales y métodos de ganadería "humanitarios", os escribo por tres de los receptores de esa piedad. Para la industria, ellos son conocidos como las unidades de producción número 6, número 35 y número 67.595. Para el consumidor "compasivo", ellos son conocidos como etiquetas que te hacen sentir bien: "leche orgánica", "ternera rosada", "huevos camperos". Para los defensores del bienestar animal, ellos son conocidos como "alternativas humanitarias". Entre ellos, se conocen como madre, hijo, hermana y amigo. Para ellos mismos, ellos son simplemente lo que tú y yo somos para nosotros mismos: un mundo auto-consciente, auto-contenido, de experiencias subjetivas, sentimientos, miedos, recuerdos -alguien con la certeza absoluta de que su vida merece ser vivida-." [...]
'Op maandag geen vlees meer'
La líder del partido animalista holandés llama a restaurantes a no servir carne los lunes.
Animal Rights Gathering of 2009 | International Animal Rights Gathering
"The 11th international Animal Rights Gathering will take place in Norway. The Animal Rights Gathering 2009 (AR 2009) will be hosted in Oslo from 25th - 28th of June. The Gathering is an event, by and for activists, focusing on organizing, building networks, learning, inspiring and sharing ideas for effective animal rights activism".
On Human-Nonhuman Relations: On Rights and Animal Rights (Part One).
This tends to beg the question, if not rights violations, what do modern animal advocates substantially rely upon in order to make claims on behalf of nonhuman animals? Francione argues that the contemporary animal movement appears content to rely on a new formulation of traditional ideas, which he labels ‘new welfarism’. He describes this conception of new welfarism as a ‘hybrid position’ which may be understood to be a more progressive, or in Francione’s terms, a ‘modified’ welfare position compared with traditional animal welfarism, especially in the sense that this ‘version of animal welfare…accepts animal rights as an ideal state of affairs that can be achieved only through continued adherence to animal welfare measures’.
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Regan also articulates his firm belief that ‘moral philosophy is no substitute for political action’, but insists, ‘still, it can make a contribution. Its currency is ideas’. This assertion was made many years ago in 1983. However, it appears that large sections of the animal advocacy movement was not (and is not) listening to this important message. Many factions in the modern animal protection movement do not agree that a well worked out philosophical position assists in the furtherance of altering the moral standing of nonhuman animals. Moreover, many of those that do seem to agree with the general point that social movements require a solid basis for claims-making, appear not to accept the case for animal rights in the first place.
Recent developments in the animal movement tends to confirm such a view. For example, Francione [4] states that ‘the modern animal “rights” movement has explicitly rejected the doctrine of animal rights’. In fact, it might be tempting to claim, analogous to Gilroy’s [5] declaration that ‘there ain’t no black in the Union Jack’, that there ain’t much rights in ‘animal rights’ either. This tends to beg the question, if not rights violations, what do modern animal advocates substantially rely upon in order to make claims on behalf of nonhuman animals? Francione argues that the contemporary animal movement appears content to rely on a new formulation of traditional ideas, which he labels ‘new welfarism’. He describes this conception of new welfarism as a ‘hybrid position’ which may be understood to be a more progressive, or in Francione’s terms, a ‘modified’ welfare position compared with traditional animal welfarism, especially in the sense that this ‘version of animal welfare…accepts animal rights as an ideal state of affairs that can be achieved only through continued adherence to animal welfare measures’. -
However, for Francione, new welfarists – despite what sets them apart from traditionalists of the genre - should be regarded as committed to the endorsement of measures ‘indistinguishable’ from policies put forward by those ‘who accept the legitimacy of animal exploitation’.
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