Why is the animal rights movement so new?

Interestingly, the main current driver of animal welfare in the Southern African region was found to be a 'top down' one, emanating from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and its national delegates. read more

Try not to confuse animal rights with animal welfare. Animal welfare has a long history of people taking good care of their animals. The animal rights movement is much more recent, talks about animals having equal or more rights than humans, advocates against all animal ownership ((which is termed slavery). read more

This is why animal rights is so threatening to the existing power structure. Essentially, the animal rights movement is about vegan living as minimizing our cruelty to animals, and when we trace it all back, we find that our movement has ancient roots in questioning the official story of this culture. read more

The animal rights movement, sometimes called the animal liberation movement, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement which seeks an end to the rigid moral and legal distinction drawn between human and non-human animals, an end to the status of animals as property, and an end to their use in the research, food, clothing, and entertainment industries. read more