Arthur Schopenhauer was a 19th-century German philosopher. He was an early defender of animal rights, going against the prevailing idea at the time that...

inherent enemy of animal rights since Christian theology, like all other religious traditions, has some unique insights to viewing animal life as having...

influenced by Schopenhauer's metaphysics, and wrote an essay on mysticism. Schopenhauer's philosophy has made its way into a novel, The Schopenhauer Cure, by...

The animal rights movement, sometimes called the animal liberation, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement that advocates...

Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all sentient animals have moral worth independent of their utility to humans, and that their...

previous decade, animal rights songs of the 1970s were influenced by the passage of animal protection laws and the 1975 book Animal Liberation. Paul McCartney...

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...

kind to animals. The other view is based on the animal rights position that animals should not be regarded as property and any use of animals by humans...

standards, and animal-rights activists have condemned the treatment of animals in the country. Movements towards animal welfare and animal rights are expanding...

understand the radical animal rights and environmental movements, it helps to know a bit about punk rock. —Will Potter, 2011 Animal rights are closely associated...

Advocates of animal rights believe that many or all sentient animals have moral worth that is independent of their utility for humans, and that their...

interests of individual animals, considering any obligation to reduce wild animal suffering implied by animal rights to be absurd, or viewing nature as an idyllic...

spelled Menaka; née Anand) (born 26 August 1956) is an Indian politician, animal rights activist, and environmentalist. She was a member of the Lok Sabha, the...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA; /ˈpiːtə/) is an American animal rights nonprofit organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by...

(2009), p. 62. Nicholson, Edward.Rights of an Animal (1879), chapter 6. Nash 1989, p. 137. Schopenhauer, Arthur. On the Basis of Morality. This edition...

Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse, animal neglect or animal cruelty, is the infliction of suffering or harm by humans upon animals, either by...

example, he noted Schopenhauer's works where the latter had argued women only have "meagre" reason comparable that of "the animal" "who lives in the...

Animal cognition encompasses the mental capacities of non-human animals including insect cognition. The study of animal conditioning and learning used...

an animal should enjoy basic rights. Several other animals, including mice and rats, should also be granted such rights, he asserts. Depending on the...

(December 12, 1923 – August 26, 2023) was an American media personality and animal rights advocate. He hosted CBS's The Price Is Right, the longest-running game...

exploitative treatment of animals. A revised edition titled Animal Liberation Now was released on 23 May 2023. Singer allows that animal rights are not the same...

status of animals, the differences between animal rights and animal welfare, and a theory of animal rights based on sentience alone, rather than on any other...

to animals in research. In contrast, an abolitionist view in animal rights holds that there is no moral justification for any harmful research on animals...

Animal Aid is a British animal rights organisation, founded in 1977 by Jean Pink. The group campaigns peacefully against the consumption of animals as...

aspires to turn away from the anthropocentric view of life. Its main goal is the introduction of more animal rights into the German constitution. Those include...

Hunt sabotage is the direct action that animal rights activists and animal liberation activists undertake to interfere with hunting activity. Hunt sabotage...

conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure. The word...

Animal consciousness, or animal awareness, is the quality or state of self-awareness within an animal, or of being aware of an external object or something...

were based on health, the transmigration of souls, animal welfare, and the view—espoused by Porphyry in De Abstinentia ab Esu Animalium ("On Abstinence...

animal rights activist. He has been vegan since the age of three and regularly supports charitable causes and has produced several documentaries on global...