For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 246-247
Author(s):  
S. J. Pearson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Animal Rights Activism

Every Sparrow That Falls: Understanding Animal Rights Activism as Functional Religion

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 305-330
Author(s):  
Wesley V Jamison ◽  
Caspar Wenk ◽  
James V Parker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Animal Rights Activism ◽  
Meaningful Role

AbstractThis article reports original research conducted among animal rights activists and elites in Switzerland and the United States, and the finding that activism functioned in activists' and elites' lives like religious belief. The study used reference sampling to select Swiss and American informants.Various articles and activists have identified both latent and manifest quasi-religious components in the contemporary movement Hence, the research followed upon these data and anecdotes and tested the role of activism in adherents' lives. Using extensive interviews, the research discovered that activists and elites conform to the five necessary components of Yinger's definition of functional religion: intense and memorable conversion experiences, newfound communities of meaning, normative creeds, elaborate and well-defined codes of behavior, and cult formation. The article elaborates on that schema in the context of animal rights belief, elucidates the deeply meaningful role of activism within a filigree of meaning, and concludes that the movement is facing schismatic forces not dissimilar to redemptive and religious movements

Every Sparrow That Falls: Understanding Animal Rights Activism as Functional Religion

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley Jamison ◽  
James Parker ◽  
Caspar Wenk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Animal Rights Activism ◽  
Meaningful Role

AbstractThis article reports original research conducted among animal rights activists and elites in Switzerland and the United States, and the finding that activism functioned in activists' and elites' lives like religious belief. The study used reference sampling to select Swiss and American informants. Various articles and activists have identified both latent and manifest quasi-religious components in the contemporary movement. Hence, the research followed upon these data and anecdotes and tested the role of activism in adherents' lives. Using extensive interviews, the research discovered that activists and elites conform to the five necessary components of Yinger's definition of functional religion: intense and memorable conversion experiences, newfound communities of meaning, normative creeds, elaborate and well-defined codes of behavior, and cult formation. The article elaborates on that schema in the context of animal rights belief, elucidates the deeply meaningful role of activism within a filigree of meaning, and concludes that the movement is facing schismatic forces not dissimilar to redemptive and religious movements

What Can We Learn from Liver?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela DeSoucey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Animal Rights Activism ◽  
Foie Gras

This chapter summarizes the complex dynamics surrounding the consumption of foie gras. It discusses the history of the foie gras industry as well as its arrival and reception in the United States, particularly the animal rights activism surrounding the food. Building on this more controversial side of foie gras, the chapter places this foodstuff within the larger context of morality and gastropolitics, illuminating the social meanings and values behind cuisine. In addition to this, the chapter also accounts for the economics of foie gras, by paying attention to the institutional structures in which it is embedded. The chapter argues that to fully grasp the concerns and consequences of gastropolitics, we can, and must, look at how foods and foodways sit at the intersection of markets, the state, and social movements.

scholarly journals The gathering momentum for animal rights

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David FAVRE
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
The Past ◽  
Substantial Progress ◽  
The Law ◽  
Law Professors ◽  
Made In

The focus of this article is to track the progress that has been made on behalf of<br />animals within the legal institutions of the United States. While there is an obvious focus on<br />the adoption of new laws, there are many steps or changes that are necessary within broader<br />legal intuitions if substantial progress is to be made in the changing and enforcing of the<br />laws. For example, at the same time that legislatures must be convinced of the need for<br />change, so must the judges believe in the new laws, otherwise enforcement of the law will be<br />not forthcoming.<br />Besides the court and the legislature, legal institutions include law schools, legal publications,<br />and the various associations of lawyers and law professors. What is the visibility and<br />credibility of animal issues within these institutions? Without progress within all aspects of<br />the legal community, success on behalf of animals is not possible. We in the United States<br />have made progress, particularly in the past ten years, but we have much yet that needs to be<br />done. By charting the progress and lack of progress in the United States, the readers in<br />Brazil and other countries will have some landmarks by which to judge the progress of the<br />issue of animal rights/welfare within their own country.

scholarly journals “-isms” and psychiatry: the threat of single issue politics

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 769-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce G. Charlton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Single Issue ◽  
Homosexual Liberation

Single issue political movements (such as feminism, anti-racism, Marxism, homosexual liberation, animal rights etc) have been a major characteristic of the post-1960s radical scene in the United States and Western Europe. While such movements typically start out doing a good job, it is my assertion that they have now reached the point of posing a serious threat to medicine at large, and to psychiatry in particular.

scholarly journals OBSTACLES IN LEGALLY PROTECTING FARM ANIMALS IN THE UNITED STATES AS ANIMAL RIGHTS ABUSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION CONTINUE

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth BENNETT
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Farm Animals

O artigo aborda questões relacionadas às forças dos lobbies<br />agrícolas e farmacêuticas para manter o status quo na sociedade norteamericana.<br />Desta forma, temas relacionados aos direitos dos animais e<br />ambientais serão discutidas através do enfoque do consumo da carne.<br />Este paper busca, assim, através da de uma visão multidisciplinar<br />e jurídica,  Ao final a autora demonstra que há uma inadequação das<br />leis de proteção dos animais e ambientais, tentando oferecer soluções<br />para uma proteção futura.

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