Animal rights — advocates propose that animals be viewed as persons, not property.[1] Description Animals are members of the moral community … Wikipedia
Animal testing — A white Wistar lab rat Description Around 50–100 million vertebrate animals are used in experiments annually. Subjects Animal testing, scien … Wikipedia
Animal welfare — refers to the viewpoint that it is morally acceptable for humans to use nonhuman animals for food, in animal research, as clothing, and in entertainment, so long as unnecessary suffering is avoided. The position is contrasted with the animal… … Wikipedia
Animal communication — Animal communication, and indeed the understanding of the animal world in general, is a rapidly growing field, and even in the 21st century so far, many prior understandings related to diverse fields such as personal symbolic name use, animal… … Wikipedia
Animal Liberation Leagues — were a network of animal rights organizations active in the UK in the 1980s. Whereas the Animal Liberation Front specialized in clandestine activity, mainly masked, at night, and involving small numbers of people, the Animal Liberation Leagues… … Wikipedia
Animal protectionism — is a position within the animal rights movement that favors incremental change in pursuit of non human animal interests. It is contrasted with abolitionism, the position that human beings have no moral right to use animals, and ought to have no… … Wikipedia
Animal Liberation (book) — Animal Liberation is a book by Australian philosopher Peter Singer, published in 1975.Although Singer is not the first person to apply the concept of moral standing to nonhuman animals (Singer himself says that he heard of the concept from a… … Wikipedia
Animal Aid — logo Animal Aid, founded in 1977, is a British animal rights organisation. The group campaigns peacefully against all forms of animal abuse and promotes a cruelty free lifestyle. It also investigates and exposes animal cruelty. Animal Aid… … Wikipedia
Animal law — is a combination of statutory and case law in which the nature – legal, social or biological – of nonhuman animals is an important factor. Animal law encompasses companion animals, wildlife, animals used in entertainment and animals raised for… … Wikipedia
Animal psychopathology — is the study of mental or behavioral disorders in non human animals.Historically, there has been an anthropocentric tendency to emphasize the study of animal psychopathologies as models for human mental illnesses [Owen, J. B., Treasure, J.L.… … Wikipedia
