Support for animal rights as a function of belief in evolution, religious fundamentalism, and religious denomination

19 Mar 2013 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): J. L. DeLeeuw, L. W Galen, C. Aebersold, V. Stanton

The present study examined the relationship among religious denomination, fundamentalism, belief about human origins, gender, and support for animal rights. Eighty-two college undergraduates filled …

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Killing with kindness: an inquiry into the routinized destruction of companion animals

16 Jan 2013 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): Lee Anne Fennell

The destruction of millions of companion animals each year in animal shelters is often overlooked in conversations about animal rights, perhaps because these killings occur under the auspices of …

http://habricentral.org/resources/1533

Human-animal relationships and ecocriticism: A study of the representation of animals in poetry from Malawi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa

17 Dec 2012 | Theses | Contributor(s): Syned Dale Makani Mthatiwa

This study analyses the manner in which animals are represented in selected poetry from Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. It discusses the various modes of animal representation the poets draw on, …

http://habricentral.org/resources/1285

Animal rights, animal minds, and human mindreading

16 Dec 2012 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): M. Mameli, L. Bortolotti

Do non‐human animals have rights? The answer to this question depends on whether animals have morally relevant mental properties. Mindreading is the human activity of ascribing mental states to …

http://habricentral.org/resources/1221

Animals, rights and property: the (un)attachment of pets in Israeli law

31 Aug 2012 | Reports | Contributor(s): Pablo Lerner

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http://habricentral.org/resources/1123

Animal rights and justice

30 Aug 2012 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): Joan Beth Clair

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Sacrificial rights: The conflict between free exercise of religion and animal rights

29 Aug 2012 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): Brendan White

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http://habricentral.org/resources/943

Political animals: A study of the emerging animal rights movement in the united states

29 Aug 2012 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): David Macauley

http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol3/iss4/5/ 0.00.0 1987 Between the Species 3 4 0.00.0 en text en

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The is-ought gap and policy failure: An examination of Tom Regan's "the case for animal rights"

28 Aug 2012 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): Lon Niedermayer

Regan’s essay makes an impassioned and reasonable argument that the problem with our use of non-human animals is not how cruelly or kindly we treat them, but that we use them at all. He examines …

http://habricentral.org/resources/896

Women animal foster care workers: An ecofeminist critique

28 Aug 2012 | Theses | Contributor(s): Denise L. Roemer

As with other forms of animal rights activism, animal foster care also appears to be dominated by women. In this paper I explore the role of animal foster care in, and its implications for, a …

http://habricentral.org/resources/877

The land ethic? Tourism's non-human actors

15 Jun 2012 | Book Sections | Contributor(s): Derek R. Hall, Frances Brown

The philosophy of this chapter is consonant with the ‘land ethic’ of American ecologist Aldo Leopold (1949/1968), which conceives of enlarging – both spatially and morally – the boundaries of …

http://habricentral.org/resources/754

Cognitive relatives yet moral strangers?

25 Feb 2012 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): Judith Benz-Schwarzburg, Andrew Knight

This article provides an empirically based, interdisciplinary approach to the following two questions: Do animals possess behavioral and cognitive characteristics such as culture, language, and a …

http://habricentral.org/resources/494

"The movement is my life": The psychology of animal rights activism

09 Feb 2012 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

I used a qualitative research approach to investigate psychological aspects of involvement in the animal rights movement. Interviews were conducted with 23 rank-and-file activists, focusing on …

http://habricentral.org/resources/441

Moral emotions and social activism: The case of animal rights

09 Feb 2012 | Journal Articles | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog, Lauren Golden

Why do some people and not others become involved in social movements? We examined the relationships between a moral emotion—disgust—and animal activism, attitudes toward animal welfare, and …

http://habricentral.org/resources/437

Property, people, or pets?

01 Feb 2012 | Books | Contributor(s): Fiery Cushman (editor), Marc D. Hauser (editor), Matt Kamen (editor), Alan M. Beck (editor)

A child can't be owned, but parents are legally responsible for their child's care. A painting and a dog can be owned; both fall under the jurisdiction of the law and in particular, property rights. …

http://habricentral.org/resources/415

The Sacrifice: How Scientific Experiments Transform Animals and People

30 Jan 2012 | Books | Contributor(s): Lynda Birke, Arnold Arluke, Mike Michael, Alan M. Beck (Editor)

The Sacrifice provides a uniquely detailed account of the sociological context of animal experimentation. The authors provide a rich analysis of complex and changing role of the laboratory animal in …

http://habricentral.org/resources/264