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Advocacy for identifying certain animal diseases as "neglected". [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect almost 1,000,000,000 people in 149 countries (http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/diseases/en/). Most are small family farmers living in the least-developed countries where health systems are often inadequate, and climate conditions are favourable to ...
François Louis Roger   +6 more
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Two Worlds in One: What ‘Counts’ as Animal Advocacy for Veterinarians Working in UK Animal Research? [PDF]

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
The concept of advocacy is of increasing importance to the veterinary profession internationally. However, there are concerns around the ambiguity and complexity of acting as an advocate in practice.
Renelle McGlacken   +2 more
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Changing Hearts and Plates: The Effect of Animal-Advocacy Pamphlets on Meat Consumption [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Social movements have driven large shifts in public attitudes and values, from anti-slavery to marriage equality. A central component of these movements is moral persuasion.
Menbere Haile   +3 more
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The Italian Animal Advocacy Archipelago and the Four Animalisms

open access: yesPartecipazione e Conflitto, 2019
Italian animal advocacy is extremely divided and fragmented: in this article, we focus on its political dimension. Based upon prior studies, we expected the Italian animal advocacy archipelago to be clustered into three strata: old welfare, new welfare ...
Niccolò Bertuzzi
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Naturalness and the Legitimacy of Thoroughbred Racing: A Photo-Elicitation Study with Industry and Animal Advocacy Informants [PDF]

open access: yesAnimals, 2020
The idea of what is natural has particular relevance in the thoroughbred racing and breeding discourse. It guides breeding regulations; influences how the thoroughbreds’ behaviour is perceived and has implications for husbandry, handling, training and ...
Iris M. Bergmann
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The Politics of Animal Rights Advocacy

open access: yesRelations, 2013
The main aim of this paper is to make the case that the politics of animal rights advocacy rests with establishing the moral and legal status of animals as a public policy issue.
Kim Stallwood
doaj   +3 more sources

Veganism’s Anti-Anthropocentric Capacity. A Critical Analysis of the Advocacy Discourse of Three Prominent Vegan Organisations

open access: yesRelations, 2023
Anthropocentrism has been identified as a root cause of nonhuman animal and intrahuman oppressions and the environmental crisis. Veganism has been celebrated as a philosophy and practice capable of undermining anthropocentrism, yet the anti ...
Louis Arthur Gough
doaj   +1 more source

Licence to Kill? Investigating the Moral Licensing Effect of Meat Reducing Petitions on Personal Meat Avoidance Pledges

open access: yesPsychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, 2022
This paper investigated the possibility of moral licensing in the context of meat reduction. Specifically, we investigated the impact of petition-signing on personal commitment to meat reduction.
Christopher Bryant, Anna Hancox
doaj   +1 more source

The Challenging Road towards a Unified Animal Research Network in Europe. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Biology, 2015
Animal models are key in biomedical research as a proof of concept to study complex processes in a physiological context. Despite the small yet crucial role animals play in fundamental and applied research, the value of animal research is recurrently ...
Emma Martinez-Sanchez, Kirk Leech
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Religion, Animals, and Racialization: Articulating Islamophobia through Animal Ethics in The Netherlands

open access: yesReligions, 2022
In 2008, the Dutch Party for the Animals submitted a proposal to ban religious slaughter without prior stunning. The proposal was widely supported in the Lower House but finally rejected in the Upper House in 2012, mainly on the grounds of religious ...
Mariska Jung
doaj   +1 more source

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