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Fast Facts
  1. According to a 2003 poll conducted by The Gallup Organization, 55% of people want to ban all types of hunting.
  2. In January 2006, Prime Minister Tony Blair's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said pets should have five freedoms: an appropriate diet, suitable living conditions, companionship or solitude, monitoring for abnormal behavior, and protection from pain and injury.
  3. Animal rights groups say the Iditarod is bad for the dogs' health.



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Modern animal rights activism has developed primarily out of concern about the use and treatment of domesticated animals in agriculture and in medical, scientific, and industrial research. The rapid growth in membership of animal rights organizations testifies to the increasing momentum of this movement.

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In 1975, bioethicist and philosopher Peter Singer published the book Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals. In the preface, Singer proposed that people hold animals in a state of tyranny. "This tyranny," he wrote, "has caused and today is still causing an amount of pain and…>> (read more)

 

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Byline: Matthew Yi; Chronicle Sacramento Bureau

Sacramento -- A Bay Area Assemblyman said Monday he has introduced a bill to allow UC officials to withhold names of…>> (read more)

Social movement actors commonly attempt to persuade those outside the movement to join their cause. They typically do so by framing their criticism of the status qua and prescribing…>> (read more)

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