Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding

Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding (22 March 1908 – 20 November 1993) was an English animal rights activist. Like her second husband Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding,^[1] she was a vegetarian,^[2] an anti-vivisectionist and a spiritualist.^[3]

She was well known in Britain for her work as an animal rights campaigner. In 1959 she founded Beauty Without Cruelty (BWC)^[2] to highlight the suffering of animals. She won several awards from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).

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Topics

Overview	Abolitionism Animal protectionism Animal rights Speciesism Veganism more...

Issues	Ahimsa Animal cognition Animal consciousness Animal law Animal model Animal rights and the Holocaust Animal product Animal rights movement Animal testing Animal testing on non-human primates Animals in sport Anthrozoology Anti-hunting Bile bear Bioethics Blood sport Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness Carnism Cosmetics testing Chick culling Christianity and animal rights Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation Cormorant culling Covance Cruelty to animals Deep ecology Ethics of eating meat Fox hunting Fur trade Great ape research ban Green Scare Huntingdon Life Sciences Intensive animal farming Ivory trade Livestock Meat paradox Nafovanny Nonviolence Open rescue Operation Backfire Pain in animals Pain and suffering in laboratory animals Primate trade Seal hunting Slaughterhouse Stock-free agriculture Toxicology testing Veganarchism Veganism Vegetarianism Western Australian shark cull more...

Cases	Brown Dog affair Cambridge University primates McLibel case Pit of despair Silver Spring monkeys University of California Riverside 1985 laboratory raid Unnecessary Fuss

Academics and writers	Carol Adams Tom Beauchamp Marc Bekoff Paola Cavalieri Stephen R. L. Clark Alasdair Cochrane J. M. Coetzee Priscilla Cohn David DeGrazia Sue Donaldson Lawrence Finsen Gary Francione Robert Garner Antoine Goetschel Will Kymlicka Andrew Linzey Dan Lyons Mary Midgley Martha Nussbaum Tom Regan Bernard Rollin Mark Rowlands Richard D. Ryder Peter Singer Henry Stephens Salt Steve Sapontzis Gary Steiner Cass Sunstein more...

Activists	Cleveland Amory Pamela Anderson Greg Avery Alec Baldwin Matt Ball Martin Balluch Barbi twins Brigitte Bardot Bob Barker Gene Baur Frances Power Cobbe Rod Coronado Karen Davis Chris DeRose John Feldmann Bruce Friedrich Juliet Gellatley Barry Horne Ronnie Lee Lizzy Lind af Hageby Jo-Anne McArthur Paul McCartney Bill Maher Keith Mann Dan Mathews Ingrid Newkirk Heather Nicholson Alex Pacheco Jill Phipps Joaquin Phoenix Craig Rosebraugh Nathan Runkle Henry Spira Kim Stallwood Marianne Thieme Andrew Tyler Gary Yourofsky more...

Movement

Groups	Animal Aid Animal Legal Defense Fund Animal Liberation Front British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection Centre for Animals and Social Justice Chinese Animal Protection Network Direct Action Everywhere Farm Animal Rights Movement Great Ape Project Hunt Saboteurs Association In Defense of Animals Korea Animal Rights Advocates Last Chance for Animals Mercy for Animals New England Anti-Vivisection Society Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Oxford Group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals United Poultry Concerns more...

Parties	AAEVP (Canada) Animal Justice Party (Australia) Animal Welfare Party (UK) PACMA (Spain) Partij voor de Dieren (Netherlands) Partito Animalista Italiano (Italy) Tierschutzpartei (Germany) more...

Media

Books	Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1894) Animals, Men and Morals (1971) Animal Liberation (1975) The Case for Animal Rights (1983) The Lives of Animals (1999) Striking at the Roots (2008) An American Trilogy (2009) more...

Films	The Animals Film (1981) A Cow at My Table (1998) Meet Your Meat (2002) Peaceable Kingdom (2004) Earthlings (2005) Behind the Mask (2006) The Cove (2009) Forks Over Knives (2011) Vegucated (2011) Speciesism: The Movie (2013) The Ghosts in Our Machine (2013) more...