Articles Index

The Obama Administration's Animal Protection Record
Where does President Barack Obama stand on animal rights issues, and what is his administration's animal rights record? This site will be updated continuously throughout Obama's administration.

Historical Timeline of the Animal Rights Movement
Timeline of the modern Animal Rights Movement, including major milestones, setbacks and accomplishments.

Basic Tenets of Animal Rights
Animal rights is the belief that animals have an intrinsic value separate from any value they have to humans, and are worthy of moral consideration. They have a right to be free of oppression, confinement, use and abuse by humans. Here's why.

What is Veganism?
Veganism is the abstention from all animal products, such as meat, fish, dairy, eggs, honey, gelatin, lanolin, wool, fur, silk, suede and leather.

'Earthlings' Review
Review of the documentary film 'Earthlings' on DVD. Two-thirds of the footage is undercover videos, taking the viewer to places where video cameras would probably never be allowed, including a circus elephant training facility, where an elephant trainer explains to a new employee how to dig the hook into an elephant’s flesh and twist it in order to teach the elephant to obey.

Where do Obama, McCain, Palin and Biden Stand on Animal Rights Issues?
Voting records as well as statements to the media and other actions, demonstrating the candidates' positions on animal issues such as horse slaughter, endangered species, hunting, and puppy mills.

Animal Rights v. Animal Welfare
Although animal rights and animal welfare frequently fall on the same side of an issue, there is a fundamental difference between the two ideologies: the right of humans to use animals.

Humanity's Enslavement of Nonhuman Animals: Human Nature not Inherently Flawed
This piece addresses with certain presupposed "flaws" in human nature from a Christian perspective, and how those flaws keep humanity from acting in a moral manner toward non-human and human animals.