Social Movement - Animal Rights

Social Movement: Animal Rights


Why I chose this: Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the interests of animals, such as the interest in avoiding suffering, should be afforded the same consideration as the interests of human beings. Although animal rights advocates approach the issue from different philosophical positions, they argue, broadly speaking, that animals should no longer be regarded as property, or used as food, clothing, research subjects, or entertainment, but should instead be regarded as legal persons and members of the moral community.

Organization: Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (www.caft.org.uk)

Grievance: There is no excuse for murdering millions of animals each year for vanity. Unfair treatment to the animals.

Resources: Documented Photos and Reports, Fact sheets, Campaign Stickers and Posters.

Framing: End the global trade of all products that use real animal fur.

Alliances: Hunt Saboteurs, Fur Free Alliance, Bont voor Dieren (Dutch), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), & others.

Call to action: Boycott any products containing animal fur.

Began: 1990s in the USA

How are proponents of one side striving to achieve their goals? They are boycotting the sellers of real fur and uniting to pressure them to into discontinue.

How do they get attention? They expose the conditions in several slaughterhouses, farms, retailers, and so on by revealing photographic and video evidence of the processes.

What power do they try to exercise? CAFT has branches all around the globe. They use free speech quite often in marches, boycotts, protests, and petitions.

What sort of organization and tactics are they using? They're an informal international coalition of grassroots groups that campaign against the production and use of animal fur.

Is the movement part of the American democratic process or is it destructive of our peaceful democracy? It adds to the democratic process.



Works Cited
Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade. Web. 02 Dec. 2010. .
"Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 02 Dec. 2010. .

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