17. May 201818. May 2018

“PETA cannot be a serious conversation partner for any democrat.”

Exclusively for zoos.media – on 17th of May in 2018. Author: Philipp J. Kroiß

“PETA cannot be a serious discussion partner for any democrat”, the CDU of Lower Saxony states in a press release and deals with an “inhuman” posting of the radical animal rights organization.

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27. March 201814. April 2018

animal rights

What do animal rights activists want?

Animal rights activists aim to give animals basic rights and, as they say, release them from all “exploitation conditions”. That is why the movement or at least a part of it is called “animal liberation movement”.

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26. March 201813. September 2023

animal rights

What is the difference between animal welfare and animal rights?

A distinction is often drawn between “animal rights”, “animal welfare”, “species conservation” and “nature conservation”, even if the borders are sometimes not quite clear.

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22. March 201814. April 2018

animal rights

What kind of rights are we talking about?

Of course there are laws that benefits animals, for example the German Animal Protection Act.

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17. March 201814. April 2018

animal rights

Are all vegans also animal rights activists?

Of course you can also eat vegan, without adhering to the animal rights ideology. Presumably even the fewest vegans support the position of animal rights activists.

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14. March 201814. April 2018

animal rights

Which animals should receive rights?

Actually, animal rights activists are concerned with all animals, from the great ape to the bee. In practice, their involvement is restricted to farm animals or animals which are kept by humans, ie to a very small percentage of the total of more than 1.3 million known animal species worldwide.

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8. March 201814. April 2018

animal rights

How old is the idea of animal rights?

Already the Greek mathematician and mystican Pythagoras founded an ascetic community in which, for ethical reasons, meat consumption was waived.

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6. March 201814. April 2018

animal rights

What does PETA aim and do?

PETA spokesmen openly proclaim that they are advocating a new antihumane ethic. “Humans have grown like a cancer. We’re the biggest blight on the face of the earth”, said PETA founder and chairman Ingrid Newkirk.

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4. March 201814. April 2018

animal rights

What are the views of animal rights activists on other political and social issues?

Animal rights activists can not be attributed to a specific political spectrum.

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1. March 201814. April 2018

animal rights

What influence do animal rights activists have?

Since the 1990s, there has been a considerable trend away from animal protection to animal rights movement, especially in North America, Europe and Israel.

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