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Velma Bronn Johnston (March 5, 1912 — June 27, 1977), also known as Wild Horse Annie, was an American animal welfare activist. She led a campaign to stop the eradication of mustangs and free-roaming burros from public lands. She was instrumental in passing legislation to stop using aircraft and land vehicles from inhumanely capturing wild ...
Actor, animal rights activist, narrator of Earthlings (2005) and Dominion (2018) [126] James Rachels: 1941–2003 United States Philosopher [127] Tom Regan: 1938–2017 United States Professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State University, author of The Case for Animal Rights (1983) [128] Qiu Renzong: ca. 1933 China: Bioethicist [129]
Women have played a central role in animal advocacy since the 19th century. The animal advocacy movement – embracing animal rights, animal welfare, and anti-vivisectionism – has been disproportionately initiated and led by women, particularly in the United Kingdom. [1] Women are more likely to support animal rights than men.
The animal rights movement, sometimes called the animal liberation, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement that advocates an end to the rigid moral and legal distinction drawn between human and non-human animals, an end to the status of animals as property, and an end to their use in the research, food, clothing, and entertainment industries.
Born Free manages or funds projects in more than 20 in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. [11] It focuses on a number of working priorities: captive wild animal exploitation; trophy and canned hunting; wildlife trade; rescue, care, rehabilitation & release; community support and human-wildlife co-existence; compassionate conservation; UK wildlife protection; policy development and advocacy ...
Stevens founded the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) in 1951 and the Society for Animal Protective Legislation (SAPL) in 1955. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Under Stevens's leadership the SAPL succeeded in helping to pass animal protection laws including the Animal Welfare Act , Humane Slaughter Act , Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act .
Two Huntley, Illinois, residents have been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly abandoning 54 dogs on July 15, 2024, at a Belvidere dog park.
Abolitionism or abolitionist veganism is the animal rights based opposition to all animal use by humans. Abolitionism intends to eliminate all forms of animal use by maintaining that all sentient beings, humans or nonhumans, share a basic right not to be treated as properties or objects.