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Does Home and Wild Food Procurement Enhance Food Security in High-Income Countries? [PDF]

open access: yesCurr Environ Health Rep
Bliss S   +6 more
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Rights of Animals, Perceptions of Science, and Political Activism: Profile of American Animal Rights Activists

Science, Technology, & Human Values, 1992
This article reports original research examining characteristics of the active followers of the American animal rights movement. Typical respondents were Caucasian, highly educated urban professional women approximately thirty years old with a median income of $33,000 (1989). Most activists think of themselves as Democrats or as Independents, and have
W V, Jamison, W M, Lunch
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Emotion work in animal rights activism

Acta Sociologica, 2013
Social movement activism requires emotional motivation and entails emotional costs, and, because of this, activists tend to be deeply involved in the management of emotions – or emotion work – and not just in connection with protest events, but also on an everyday basis.
Kerstin Jacobsson, Jonas Lindblom
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Activism and Trust: Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare in the Food Supply Chain

2010
Animals such as poultry and cattle have been used for production and human consumption throughout the history of agriculture. This work defines and analyzes the concepts of animal rights and animal welfare. It compares and contrasts the viewpoints of animal rights and animal welfare organizations in an effort to portray a comprehensive perspective of ...
Phillips, Jon C.   +19 more
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Animal Rights Activism and Animal Welfare Concerns in the Academic Setting: Levels of Activism and the Perceived Importance of Research with Animals

Psychological Reports, 1995
Past research suggests that public support for the use of animal models as means to improve the human condition is present but many individuals have expressed ambivalence. In the present study, various sectors of the academic community (students and faculty) as well as the general population, were surveyed to assess their positions on the need for ...
D M, Compton   +3 more
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States Shaping Civic Activism: Comparing Animal Rights Activism in Poland and Russia

The Sociological Quarterly, 2017
ABSTRACTThis article offers a comparative study of animal rights and animal welfare activism in Poland and Russia. It investigates how an East European democratic state, on the one hand, and a post-Soviet semiauthoritarian state, on the other hand, steer civic activism and how different state–society relationships affect the forms that activism takes ...
Christian Fröhlich, Kerstin Jacobsson
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