animal rights
Nonhuman moral standing
Animal rights is the view that animals deserve moral consideration and legal protection from exploitation, cruelty, and suffering.
The term covers a spectrum from modest welfare reforms to the position that animals should never be used for food, clothing, research, or entertainment.
Animal rights activists protested outside the fur store.
The animal rights movement has grown since the 1970s.
Capacity for subjective experience
- speciesismMoral preference by organism type
- intrinsic valueWorth independent of circumstance
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
dignity · equality · bioethics · utilitarianism · deontology · personhood · consciousness · exploitation
Kind consideration for welfare
- shelterProtected place or structure
- sanctuaryProtected sacred space
- rescueSave from harm
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
adoption · veterinary care · enrichment · husbandry · living conditions · cage-free · free-range · cruelty-free
Public expression of disapproval
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- PETAAnimal welfare advocacy group
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
boycott · petition · leafletting · undercover · direct action · rescue · volunteer · fundraising
Organisms facing extinction risk
- habitat protectionSafeguarding natural living spaces
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- wildlifeUndomesticated natural organisms
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
poaching · ivory trade · bushmeat · trophy hunting · whaling · shark finning · captive breeding · reintroduction
Law conserving threatened wildlife
- CITESWildlife trade agreement
- statutesFormally enacted laws
- regulationsEnforced rules and standards
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
compliance · litigation · prosecution · ban · prohibition · ordinances · legal standing · legal personhood
sentience
Capacity for subjective experience
- speciesismMoral preference by organism type
- intrinsic valueWorth independent of circumstance
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
autonomy · dignity · equality · bioethics · utilitarianism · deontology · personhood · consciousness · exploitation · liberation
humane treatment
Kind consideration for welfare
rehabilitation · adoption · veterinary care · enrichment · husbandry · living conditions · cage-free · free-range · cruelty-free · captivity
protest
Public expression of disapproval
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- PETAAnimal welfare advocacy group
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
campaign · boycott · petition · leafletting · undercover · direct action · rescue · volunteer · fundraising · awareness
endangered species
Organisms facing extinction risk
- habitat protectionSafeguarding natural living spaces
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- wildlifeUndomesticated natural organisms
extinction · poaching · ivory trade · bushmeat · trophy hunting · whaling · shark finning · captive breeding · reintroduction · wildlife trafficking
Endangered Species Act
Law conserving threatened wildlife
- CITESWildlife trade agreement
- statutesFormally enacted laws
- regulationsEnforced rules and standards
enforcement · compliance · litigation · prosecution · ban · prohibition · ordinances · legal standing · legal personhood · fur ban
- animal ethicshumane treatment, ethical treatment, sentient beings, cruelty prevention, humane slaughter
- animal welfarehumane societies, humane treatment, shelters, SPCA, cruelty-free
- food ethicsethical eating, veganism, ethical sourcing, vegetarianism, cruelty-free
- activismboycotts, activists, activist, advocate, demonstrating
- rightscivil liberties, immunity, liberty, constitutional guarantees, fundamental freedoms
- social causesfeminism, charity, environmentalism, volunteering, pacifism
animal rightsfactory farming
Intensive livestock production system
vivisection · animal testing · fur trade · trophy hunting · industrial agriculture
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