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Animal rights is no longer an issue that's confined to the fringes. In fact, it has been described as one of the most central philosophical issue of our time.<ref name=Najafi>Najafi, Sina. , ''Cabinet'', Issue 4, Fall 2001.</ref> The idea of extending legal ] to animals is supported by an increasing number of legal scholars, including ]<ref name=DershowitzAA>Dershowitz, Alan. ''Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights'', 2004, pp. 198-99, and , ''The Animals' Advocate'', Winter 2002, volume 21.</ref> and ] of ].<ref name=AAMC>, Association of American Medical Colleges, retrieved July 12, 2006.</ref> At the time of writing, 92 out of 180 United States law schools teach specialist ] courses.<ref>, ].</ref> There is increasing support among academics for the idea of awarding very basic rights to other members of the ] family. The Swiss, German, and Austrian constitutions have been, or are about to be, changed to reflect the status of animals as beings in their own right, rather than property, and in Austria, each province must appoint an animal solicitor, who can initiate court proceedings on behalf of animals.<ref>Balluch, Martin. "How Austria achieved a historic breakthrough," in Peter Singer, ''In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave'', Blackwell, 2006, p. 162.</ref>
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This is therefore an interesting time to be exploring the issue. It's an exciting period for supporters of the movement, because legal breakthroughs may be on the horizon. It's challenging for those who rely on the use of animals in research or in industry. Philosophically, we may be on the brink of an intellectual revolution in which the status of human beings at the moral pinnacle of the natural world faces serious challenge for the first time.
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The aim of WikiProject Animal rights is to educate readers and editors about the concept of animal rights, the animal liberation movement, and its main concerns. The word "educate" is key. We aim to provide intelligent, nuanced, three-dimensional coverage of the topic, not propaganda or simplistic knee-jerk responses, whether for or against.

Animal rights is no longer an issue that's confined to the fringes. In fact, it has been described as one of the most central philosophical issue of our time. The idea of extending legal personhood to animals is supported by an increasing number of legal scholars, including Alan Dershowitz and Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School. At the time of writing, 92 out of 180 United States law schools teach specialist animal law courses. There is increasing support among academics for the idea of awarding very basic rights to other members of the great ape family. The Swiss, German, and Austrian constitutions have been, or are about to be, changed to reflect the status of animals as beings in their own right, rather than property, and in Austria, each province must appoint an animal solicitor, who can initiate court proceedings on behalf of animals.

This is therefore an interesting time to be exploring the issue. It's an exciting period for supporters of the movement, because legal breakthroughs may be on the horizon. It's challenging for those who rely on the use of animals in research or in industry. Philosophically, we may be on the brink of an intellectual revolution in which the status of human beings at the moral pinnacle of the natural world faces serious challenge for the first time.

For all these reasons, it's a topic that provokes strong feelings. The aim of this project is to ensure that Misplaced Pages's coverage is not informed by those strong feelings, but by disinterested, intelligent, neutral, and reliable research.

If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.

Scope

The project encompasses issues related to animal rights and the animal liberation movement. Specifically:

  1. animal rights/animal liberation groups e.g. British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
  2. animal rights campaigns e.g. SPEAK
  3. leaderless resistance movements e.g. Animal Liberation Front
  4. issues related to speciesism, philosophy of animal rights, ethical theories
  5. animals rights in law
  6. The scientific and philosophical problem of sentience and its bearing on the animal question
  7. studies into animal intelligence that may have a bearing on arguments about animal rights
  8. areas of concern to the animal rights movement, such as factory farming and animal testing
  9. individual animal rights/animal liberation activists and advocates
  10. lawyers, writers, and academics who work on animal rights/animal liberation theory
  11. Vegetarianism, Veganism, and other animal-conscious lifestyles

Categories, stubs, and templates

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Stubs

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  • Template:Animal rights, which you can see at the top of this page; it should contain the key people, movements, issues.
  • Template:Animal testing, for key people and issues related to animal testing — there may be some overlap between this and the AR template.

Shortcuts for adding the AR templates are {{Alib}} and {{Alibend}}. The animal testing template is {{animal testing}}

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Notes

  1. Najafi, Sina. "Beastly Agendas: An Interview with Kathleen Kete", Cabinet, Issue 4, Fall 2001.
  2. Dershowitz, Alan. Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights, 2004, pp. 198-99, and "Darwin, Meet Dershowitz", The Animals' Advocate, Winter 2002, volume 21.
  3. "'Personhood' Redefined: Animal Rights Strategy Gets at the Essence of Being Human", Association of American Medical Colleges, retrieved July 12, 2006.
  4. Animal law program, Animal Legal Defense Fund.
  5. Balluch, Martin. "How Austria achieved a historic breakthrough," in Peter Singer, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave, Blackwell, 2006, p. 162.
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