14. March 201814. April 2018

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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13. March 201814. April 2018

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Is eating meat equivalent to cannibalism?

Some animal rights activists actually claim, that somebody who eats a steak, just eat a kind of fellow.

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12. March 201814. April 2018

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How do animal rights activists have to change their lives according to their convictions?

Like all vegans, they can not eat meat or other animal products such as eggs, milk and honey, and also no butter, milk chocolate, milk ice cream and egg noodles for example. However, there are many other rules.

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11. March 201814. April 2018

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Why do animal rights activists reject animal organic food?

Whether the cow is kept in intensive livestock farming or in a largely organic farm is irrelevant for animal rights activists. They reject any animal use.

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10. March 201814. April 2018

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Who are the protagonists of the animal rights movement?

The founder of modern animal ethics is the Australian philosopher Peter Singer, who developed the conceptual, philosophical and political foundations of the animal rights movement with his books “Animal Liberation” (1975) and “Practical Ethics” (1984).

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9. March 201814. April 2018

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Why do disabled associations criticize the animal rights philosopher Peter Singer?

The inevitability of animal rights ideology is the question of euthanasia of humans.

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8. March 201814. April 2018

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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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7. March 201814. April 2018

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Which organizations are involved in the animal rights movement?

The world’s most famous and influential organization is PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), but there are countless smaller and larger ones dedicated to the animal rights.

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6. March 201814. April 2018

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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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5. March 201814. April 2018

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What was the “PETA kills animals” scandal about?

Two PETA employees were detained in the US state of North Carolina in 2005 after disposing 80 animal carcasses in a trash container. They were accused, among other things, of cruelty to animals, but were released at the end of the trial.

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