Animal Rights

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1. What Is Animal Rights?
2. Social Justice and Veganism poster by JoAnn Farb (PDF)
3. Alternatives to Animal Products
4. Dairy
5. Eggs
6. Media
7. Animal Rights and the Environment
8. Get Involved
9. Youth and Educator Resources
10. Price Supports/Government Programs
11. Organic
12. Fish
13. Animals Rights and Animal Welfare Concerns
14. Veganic Farming/Gardening

What Is Animal Rights?

• Primer on Animal Rights

Alternatives to Animal Products

• Why?
• Guide to Leather Alternatives
• Clothing, Shoes and Accessories
• Cosmetics and Personal Care Products
• HYPOTHRYOIDISM: A reader asked if there is any medication out there suitable for vegans? (August 04, 2017)
• The Vegan Dog (New York Times; June 6, 2017)
• Veganic Farming

Dairy

• With dairy farms disappearing in Carroll County, milk consumption flat, farmers look to alternative revenue sources
• Strange noises turn out to be cows missing their calves
• Dairy Report 2018
• The Son Of Big Sue

Eggs

• Eggs

Media

• Radio/Podcasts/Apps/Video/TV/Films

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Animal Rights and the Environment

• Aquaculture: An Overview (Part I) (from Vegetarian Journal, May/June 1997)
• Aquaculture: An Overview (Part II) (from Vegetarian Journal, Jul/Aug 1997)
• Ecocriticism As Vegetarian Activism
• Factory Farm Drone Project
• Frequently Asked Questions about the Controversy Surrounding the United Nations' Livestock's Long Shadow and Responses (from The VRG Blog, Aug 2010)
• Lesson Plan: A Comparative Study of Surface Water Quality with Dietary Connections (grades 9-12)
• Lesson Plan: Water Conservation and Dietary Connections (grades 5-8)
• Livestock Affect Our Planet (By Gretchen Chlebowski) (PDF)
• Organic Farming From the Farmer's Point of View
• The Vegetarian Solution to Water Pollution
• Water Usage Math Worksheet (Middle/High School Level)
• http://youtu.be/2LRDkrD8zh0
• http://youtu.be/bNj2hVoLMaM

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Get Involved

• Activism
• VRG Scholarship Contest
• Get Involved With VRG!
• Animal Matters
• Animal Rights National Conference (held every year)
• So You Wanna Be an Animal Lawyer?
• Jobs Opportunities That Contribute to the Greater Good
• How Many Animals Does a Vegetarian Save? (Counting Animals; 02/06/12)
• Animal Rights and Welfare Organizations
• Religion
• Catholic Concern for Animals
• The Christian Vegetarian Association (CVA)
• Circle of Compassion's Worldwide Prayer Circle for Animals (non-denominational circle of people who pray the daily prayer, "Compassion encircles the Earth for all beings.")
• Concern for Helping Animals in Israel (CHAI)
• Faith Outreach (program of The Humane Society of the United States)
• Humane Religion
• Islamic Concern
• Jewish Vegetarian Society (JVS)
• Quaker Concern For Animals
• Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians (SERV)
• Vegetarian Friends (publishes The Peaceable Table & provides support for Quakers in the practice of love for animals & a vegetarian diet)
• Why Should Christians be Vegetarians? (PETA site that addresses Christianity and vegetarianism)

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Youth and Educator Resources

• Animalearn (humane dissection alternatives; from the American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS))
• The CIA Club (Compassion In Action Club) (student-oriented, animal-advocacy organization)
• The Compassionate Living Project (CLP) (non-profit humane education organization whose mission is to advocate ethical consumerism)
• Education Materials
• The Gentle Barn (California, US)
• HSUS Education Programs (Dissection Alternatives)
• Humane Educators Reaching Out (HERO)
• Humane Society: Youth
• HumaneTeen
• Institute for Humane Education (IHE)
• Kind News (classroom magazine to teach children about compassion and respect for animals)
• PETAKids.com
• PETA2.com (PETA's teen site)
• TEACHkind (offers free humane education materials for K-12 & college educators)
• That's Why We Don't Eat Animals: A Book about Vegans, Vegetarians, and All Living Things (written & illustrated by Ruby Roth)
• Vegetarian-Friendly Book List (books with animal rights themes for children, teens & parents)
• Your right not to dissect

Price Supports/Government Programs

• Dairy, Price Supports, Calcium, Nutrition Policy
• Support for Dairy Farmers Partially Due to Sluggish Marketplace for Dairy Producers (August 25, 2016)
• Big Beef (The Washington Monthly; Jan/Feb 2014)
• People Are Freaking Out About $8-a-Gallon Milk (Time; 12/11/13)

Organic

• Organic and conventional dairies show few differences in cow health and milk
• Organic Milk and Grazing Cows

Fish

• AP Investigation: Are slaves catching the fish you buy?
• Fishes: Their Wonder, Their Plight, and How It Affects Us All (May 29, 2017)

Animals Rights and Animal Welfare Concerns

• America's meat shortage is more serious than your missing hamburgers (May 8, 2020)
• Down Feathers
• Free-Range Trichinosis - link to NY Times Op-ed (April 10, 2010)
• It's time to wean ourselves off the fairytale version of farming (The Guardian; May 29, 2016)
• Veganic Farming
• Do you eat meat? What about animals? Scientists slice open a carnivore\'s paradox (FoodNavigator-USA; October 17, 2016)
• Male Chicks
• Egg labeling (US Court of Appeals; Dec 14, 2016)
• Free-Range Trichinosis - link to NY Times Op-ed
• The Vegan Dog (New York Times; June 6, 2017)
• ‘300 million’ deaths likely if we ignore antibiotic resistance - former Belgian PM (Global Meat News; October 26, 2017)
• Why your flu shot won't work well this year (NBC News; November 7, 2017)
• 'Planet of the chickens': How the bird took over the world (BBC News; December 12, 2018)

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