PEACE ST 2B03 / WOMEN'S ST 2A03 / LABR ST 2W03 (2010/11) Lecture 9: The Case for Animal Rights

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Lecture 9Monday March 7 2011

PEACE ST 2B03 / LABR ST 2W03 / WOMENS ST 2A03: Human Rights and Social Justice

Dr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

Animal RightsThe person, the animal & the environment

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Outline

Speciesism

Carnism

Animals as property

new welfarism

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Peter Singer (1975)

Utilitarianism

Speciesism

Animal Liberation

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Melanie Joy (2010)

Labels a belief system

Carnism

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Rain without Thunder

Gary Francione (1996)

Property status

new welfarism

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We hear of the rights of Man. I wish we heard more ofthem than we do and could see them observed aswell as talked of. But who ever thought of an animals

rights the rights of a brute. We hear it spoken of asmans duty to be kind to the brutes but never of abrutes right to just treatment. But why has not a bruterights. as well as man?

Nathaniel P Rogers (1875)

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The vegan revolution...

David Agranoff (2010)

Genetically engineeredanimals lead to (human)Zombies.

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Summary

Speciesism

Carnism: a belief system

Treatmentor use

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For Wednesday

Should the concept of rights be extended to

animals? Can rights exist alongside animals as property?

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For Thursday

Should we focus on treatmentor use with respect to

the animal question?

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Citations & further reading

David Agranoff(2010)e Vegan Revolution... with Zombies, Deadite Press

Gary Francione (1996) Rain withoutunder: the ideology of the animal rights movement, Philadelphia:Temple University Press.

Jason Hribal (2010) Fear of the Animal Planet: e Hidden History of Animal Resistance, Oakland: AKPress.

Melanie Joy (2010) Why we love dogs eat pigs and wear cows: an introduction to carnism (the belief systemthat enables us the eat some animals and not others), San Francisco: Conari Press.

Nathaniel P Rogers (1845) e Rights of Animals, Herald of Freedom, October 31. Reproduced in A

collection of the miscellaneous writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, 2nd Edition (1849).

Upton Sinclair (1906)e Jungle, Doubleday, Jabber & Company.

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Citations & further reading

Peter Singer (2002) Animal Liberation, New York: Ecco/Harper Collins. Originally published 1975.

Carnism Awareness and Action Network hp://www.carnism.com/

Earthlings: make the connection hp://www.earthlings.com/

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Image sources

Mike Konopacki. 2000. If there was justice in the world, 2000 http://www.veggies.org.uk/calendar/2000.htm

Human Rights Champions, 2001 http://invisiblecollege.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/2007/03/11/who-wants-to-be-the-

new-human-rights-cha

Which do you pet, which do you eat? http://www.meatout.org/action/outreach.htm

Shane T. McCoy, Detainees at Camp X-Ray, 11 January 2002. Image in the domain image http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_x-ray_detainees.jpg

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PEACE ST 2B03 / WOMEN'S ST 2A03 / LABR ST 2W03 (2010/11) Lecture 9: The Case for Animal Rights