animal rights
the rights of animals, claimed on ethical grounds, to the same humane treatment and protection from exploitation and abuse that are accorded to humans.
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How to use animal rights in a sentence
Bob Zimbal, third-generation owner of Zimbal Farms and Minkery, one of the state’s largest operations with about 100,000 minks, called the statement “propaganda,” and said animal rights groups are using the pandemic to try to shut down the industry.
Mink farmers are skipping to the front of the vaccine line — for an important reason | Dan Simmons | February 19, 2021 | Washington PostThe profile also described Limbaugh using “Born Free” to open an animal rights update — a takedown of animal rights activists.
Restoring the Fairness Doctrine can’t prevent another Rush Limbaugh | Heather Hendershot | February 19, 2021 | Washington PostSinger, who is also the author of the seminal 1975 book Animal Liberation that helped launch the animal rights movement, can now say it twice.
The world’s problems overwhelmed me. This book empowered me. | Kelsey Piper | December 11, 2020 | VoxHe said he had to turn down bike-safety and animal rights groups that approached him about legislation.
As Virginia Democrats rein themselves in with bill limits, some legislators see lost opportunities | Laura Vozzella | November 29, 2020 | Washington PostAll of the women worked with an animal rights organization called Direct Action Everywhere.
No Unlawful Assembly Charges So Far Following Dozens of Arrests | Brittany Cruz-Fejeran and Ashly McGlone | October 12, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
Yes, animal rights activists are trying to ban the eating of cats and dogs in Switzerland.
Will the Swiss Quit Cooking their Kittens and Puppies? | Barbie Latza Nadeau | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the Playboy Playmate and hardcore animal-rights activist has long been a major-league advocate for the State of Israel.
To some people, keeping orcas in metal cans is violent animal-rights abuse; to others it is apparently “normal and legal.”
Activists: Moscow Sea Park Is ‘Torturing’ Its Orca Whales | Anna Nemtsova | October 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTArmed guards kept animal rights activists shouting “assassins” at bay.
The Dog is Dead—And We’ll Never Know if He Had Ebola | Barbie Latza Nadeau | October 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMany Hollywood stars today care about the environment, or gay rights, or animal rights, or what have you.
Lauren Bacall Was Deeply Liberal and Deeply Anti-Communist | Michael Tomasky | August 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for animal rights
the rights of animals to be protected from exploitation and abuse by humans
(as modifier): the animal-rights lobby
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