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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