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Historical Context. The roots of the animal rights movement can be traced back to the early 19th century, with the establishment of organizations like the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ...

The animal rights movement, sometimes called the animal liberation, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement that advocates 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.

In this fascinating social history of the animal rights movement, philosophers Lawrence and Susan Finsen seek to clarify the movement's major ideas, the kinds of activism that have emerged within it, the response of those threatened by its ideas, and its future challenges. They stress that one of the primary characteristics of contemporary ...