Groups Encouraging Animal Rights

Non-human animals should have the same rights that humans have such as not being used as food, clothing, entertainment, or experimentation.

The Animal Protection Movement also underwent the Bureaucratic stage, which is the third stage of development of social movements in sociology. The bureaucratization stage of social movements is the formalization stage that is characterized by high level of organization as swell as coalitions. As such, this makes the social movement a powerful political force. As explained in the book, Thinking Sociology, this is the stage that is symbolized by a myriad of social movements dedicated to animal rights show that this particular concern will not go away (Carl, et al., 2011). In this stage of the Animal Protection Movement, there was significant media visibility, especially in the 1980s. In addition to that vigorous competition among the organizations in this juncture symbolize high level of efficiency in the movement. Strategic thinking by animal advocates was also adopted as an approach to enable justice-based movements that influenced drastic victories for the movement in that decade. Nevertheless, this stage of the Animal Welfare Movements was marked by extensive changes in organizations and the growth of active supporter base for the movement.

imal abuse has been an issue since the 12th century when dogs and cats were commonly found roaming the streets. Today it has become an ever growing issue which ranges from household pets to farm animals such as cows, chickens, horses. Animal abuse also is not just in America, such as bullfighting in Spain which began many centuries ago as a sacrifice to the gods. Is still practiced today as a form of entertainment. This kind of behavior does not seem right in our everyday life and just seems wrong because animals should be treated with kindness and not hatred.

“Nearly as many, 68 percent, were concerned or very concerned about the well-being of animals used in ‘sports’ or contests as well as animals in laboratories (67 percent) (Kretzer, 1).” Many people question whether an animal is capable of thought and emotions. Others feel as though animals are the equivalent of humans and should be treated as such. Since the 1800’s, animal rights has been a topic that has several different sides including two extremes. If animals can react to their environment, emote, and are aware of things done to or with them, then they should have similar rights to humans.

The controversial issue of animal testing isn’t a top priority for most Americans, but it is for the animal rights activist that have established brand boycotts and loyalty. Animal testing has been around for decades; however, most Americans do not know if their household cleans or beauty products are tested on animals. Companies like Fabreze, Lysol, and even Comet are still tested on animals as of 2017 but have a standing consumer boycott by animal rights activist. “A study published in the Journal of Medical Ethics (February 2015) found that from 1997 to 2012, the total number of laboratory animals increased by 73%, but due to inadequacies in recordkeeping on the use of animals in experimentation, the number may be even higher (“Animals,”

Animal rights is the belief that animals have value and are worthy of moral consideration. The idea of animal rights may seem unheard of to many people throughout the world given the fact that globally animals are often abused and killed for a wide variety of socially acceptable reasons. Animals of all types have a right to be free of oppression, confinement, use and abuse by humans.

My cultural immersion is season three, episode three of 30 Days, Animal Rights. I am employed in agriculture and have been for the last 12 years. Those who are involved with farming operations believe in animal rights, but those rights are different than what was portrayed in this video.I have taken stand against anti-farming measures and harshly against The Humane Society of the United States and PETA. Finding faults and misstated facts with the propaganda with these to organization. My new stance would be uncomfortable, as I do not view them as the good guys. The stance I am going to be will force me outside of the dominant culture that I live in.

The fight for animal rights is one that has been going on for centuries. “The new emphasis upon animals ' feelings of sensation in the eighteenth century brought growing criticism of some forms of cruelty. Doubts about the ethics of castrating domestic animals were raised as early as 1714." (Guither, 1998, p.1) According to Guither (1998), London was the first to encourage the prevention of animal cruelty in 1824 where it eventually became the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. They aimed to "attack animal cruelty and promote kindness to animals in support of prevailing social and religious values, support enforcement of existing laws, and pass new ones. (Guither, 1998, p.2)

The study of good and bad, right and wrong, moral principles or value held by a person or society, promoting human welfare, maximizing freedom minimizing pain and suffering is called ethics. The discipline that studies the moral relationship of human beings and also the value and moral status of the environment and its non-human contents is called environmental ethics. It considers the ethical relationship between the humans and the environment. Animal and animal rights are the highlighted topic in the environmental ethics.

The strongly repeated use of words such as “effective”, “successful”, and “victory”, and phrases that praise PETA for all of its accomplishments has a purpose: to foster a particular way for supporters to see themselves in the nonhuman animal rights movement, namely as donors and consumers of PETA, its tactics, and its selection of “cruelty-free” products. The recurrent discourse has also fostered and contributed to a particularly neoliberal ideological composition of the nonhuman animal rights movement that encourages competition with other non-profits and defines “success” by the number of single issue campaigns it wins, the amount of media coverage it gets, the number “likes” it receives on social media, and the number of donors it

"Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do” once said Ingrid Newkirk, beloved animal rights activist and cofounder of the largest animal rights organizations, PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. There is a much bigger picture than which lies centered on the human species. Earth is inhabited with a rich variety of about eight million species, most of which have been thought to exist for millions of years before humans evolved. The array of diversity of life on our planet is mind blowing, however,

Rights believed to belong to animals to live free from use in medical research, hunting, and other services to humans. The fundamental principle of the modern animal rights movement is that many nonhuman animals have basic interests that deserve recognition, consideration, and protection. In the view of animal rights advocates, these basic interests give the animals that have them both moral and legal rights, courtesy of Animal Rights:What are Animal Rights? - Think Differently About Sheep.

Animal rights is something that I have had a lot of conflict with in the past. I was once someone who was very adamant about animal rights and would have been involved with protests and such if I had been connected with anyone in that field. I was even planning on going to volunteer with Sea Shepherd to help conserve the ocean. Since then my opinions have changed and I still believe in animal rights but on a much more conservative scale. There are mainly three major viewpoints on animal rights.

The organization known as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has an article on their website condemning the use of leather products. Simply titled “The Leather Industry” and accessible by typing ‘cowsarecool.com’, this article aims to show how cruelly animals are treated while their skin is being obtained to make leather. This website supports the belief that that when you buy leather you are an accessory to animal cruelty because they think that any informed person would not fund the industry while they operate in this manner. This article is primarily geared towards those who are easily swayed by slaughter pictures and have so much excess empathy that they are willing to let PETA dictate what they wear.

Some are blind to the fact that every ten seconds an animal is abused in the U.S. 60% of abused animals are dogs and 26% of the dogs are Pitbulls. Only 1,920 crimes against animals are reported a year.Many people believe that animals have no feelings and feel no pain, that they are in this world for slave labor and torture. Those people couldn't be more wrong. Animals may look different from humans, but they have just as much the right to live happy lives and thrive as human beings do. People use the term “animal” as one that is savage and unruly, so does that make humans the animals? Some animals are rescued and are given the chance to live out a human-like life, but then there are even more who don't get that same chance. So fight for the rights of these animals and punish the abusers, Animals can't speak for themselves so all must do it for