Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal rights

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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 the most central philosophical issue of our time. ^[1] The idea of extending legal personhood to animals is supported by an increasing number of legal scholars, including Alan Dershowitz ^[2] and Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School. ^[3] At the time of writing, 69 out of 180 United States law schools teach specialist animal law courses. ^[4] The Swiss and German constitutions have been changed to reflect the status of animals as beings in their own right, rather than property. There is increasing support among academics for the idea of awarding very basic rights to other members of the great ape family.

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 Wikipedia'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.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Articles 3 Category 4 Templates 5 Participants 6 See also 7 Notes

[edit] 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

[edit] Articles

• SHAC 7
• Consort beagles
• Meet Your Meat
• Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group
• Hunt Saboteurs Association
• Center on Animal Liberation Affairs

Please feel free to list your new projectname-related articles here; newer articles at the top, please. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? (DYN) box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72-hour time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] Category

• Category:Animal rights movement

The category contains articles about the movement, its ideas and philosophy, individual activists, writers, and issues of interest to them.

[edit] Templates

• To add the template above to your user page, write {{user wpar}}.
• To add Template:Animal liberation to an article, write {{Alib}}, and it will produce the template you see at the top of this page. The template should include the most pertinent and notable AR activists, topics, campaigns, and writers.
• To add that an article is part of WikiProject Animal rights, add {{WikiProject Animal rights}} to the talk page.
• To add the animal rights stub template to stubs, write {{animal-rights-stub}}. This will add the stub to Category:Animal rights stubs.

[edit] Participants

• JBeckham
• FK0071a
• Juanmaiz
• Έρεβος
• JWSchmidt
• Localzuk ^(talk)
• Nrets
• Rbogle
• Rockpocket
• SlimVirgin ^(talk)
• The Ungovernable Force
• TBCTaLk?!?
• Sarah Ewart (Talk)
• Francis Tyers ·
• David Olivier
• Canæn
• c.lettinga ^(talk)
• Cameron Erickson (talk)
• Bill Huston (talk)
• Teardrop on the Fire

[edit] See also

Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates

[edit] 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" PDF 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.