Sentences with phrase «animal rights proponents»

Another area of disagreement between animal welfare and animal rights proponents is over the legal status of animals.

In spite of the easy refutation of the anti-purebred litanies, breeders are on the defensive, especially in those areas where active animal rights proponents are working for laws that penalize owners of intact dogs with large license differentials, special breeding permits, advertising restrictions, litter limits, and even forced sterilization of dogs impounded for running at large.

Animal rights proponents have long argued these large commercial breeders provide terrible living conditions for animals.

Not exact matches

To make such a leap of logic is to commit the other glaring error often made by proponents of animal rights and environmental ethics: they fail to see that the rights endowed to animals are not identical with the rights of human beings.

Proponents of the gene protection initiative — a diverse coalition of environmental, animal - rights, and political groups that collected 111,000 signatures to bring the proposal to a vote — say their fight isn't over.

As for spaying and neutering — which animal - welfare proponents including PetSmart Charities ® identify as key to ending the epidemic of pet homelessness — most people said confusion about the right age to have a dog or cat sterilized, as well as costs of the procedure, were the biggest barriers.

Peter Singer, a Professor of Bio-Ethics at Princeton, has been a long - time proponent of animal rights after the publication of his book Animal Liberation in the mid&raquanimal rights after the publication of his book Animal Liberation in the mid&raquAnimal Liberation in the mid»80s.