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The first Spanish animal rights group, Association for the Defense of Animal Rights (ADDA), was founded in 1975. [16] The ADDA's activities include lobbying for improved animal welfare policies at local, regional, national, and European levels (e.g. pushing for bans on bullfighting in Barcelona and Catalonia ), conducting informational ...
AnimaNaturalis speaks out against the use of the animals as food (concerns with industrial farms, industrial fishing and foie gras); [4] in laboratories (animal testing); [5] to wear as clothing (concerns with using fur, leather, silk, wool and feathers); [6] as entertainment (circuses, zoos, aquariums, sports, hunting, and racing); [7] and raises awareness about cruel traditions such as ...
A new animal welfare law that took effect Friday in Spain outlaws the use of animals for recreational activities that cause them pain and suffering but allows bullfights and hunting with dogs.
Óscar Horta Álvarez (born 7 May 1974) [1] is a Spanish animal rights activist and moral philosopher who is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and one of the co-founders of the nonprofit organization Animal Ethics.
In order to reduce animal suffering, it might be more effective to encourage people to eat less meat and to buy cruelty-free animal products. But for those who believe in animal rights, that’s ...
Which activities may and may not be performed with the designated species for testing, and under which conditions to avoid or reduce pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. Which reasons are valid for animal testing: Disease prevention in humans, animals or plants; Diagnosis or treatment of diseases in humans, animals or plants
The book explores wild animal suffering as a moral issue and argues that there is a moral obligation to intervene in nature to alleviate this. It begins by establishing two main assumptions: suffering is bad, and if we can prevent or reduce suffering without causing greater harm and without jeopardizing other important values, we have an ethical obligation to do so.
Beyond Anthropocentrism, on the problem of wild animal suffering and ways to reduce it. [8] She has also authored articles for the University of Oxford's Practical Ethics blog; [9] Nietzsche's Horse, the Spanish online newspaper ElDiario.es's blog on animal issues; [10] and Pikara Magazine, the online feminist magazine. [11]