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The activists of animal rights 2.0 successfully drew public attention to the contemporary plight of slaughter-bound animals. Their call to action, though, was one that could only be adopted by ...

Animal rights - Activism, Legislation, Ethics: The fundamental principle of the modern animal rights movement is that many nonhuman animals have basic interests that deserve recognition, consideration, and protection. In the view of animal rights advocates, these basic interests give the animals that have them both moral and legal rights. It has been said that the modern animal rights movement ...

But it was only in the early 1970s that the modern animal rightsmovement came about when Australian philosopher Peter Singer published Animal Liberation on the moral rights of animals, crediting his views partly to little-known author Ruth Harrison who has since become the cornerstone of today's animal rights group movement.