Animalism: A nascent ideology? Exploring the ideas of animal advocacy political parties
Animalism: A nascent ideology? Exploring the ideas of animal advocacy political parties
PAUL LUCARDLE: In recent years political parties advocating animal rights and animal interests have sprang up in several countries and seem to constitute a new party family. At first sight, they appear to be single-issue parties, but a closer look at their party programmes suggests that they are developing a new ideology based on the core concept of compassion and adjacent concepts of equality, intrinsic value and interdependence… In philosophy, the term animalism denotes the view that human beings should be regarded as animals. This view seems to be shared generally by animal advocacy parties, so why not refer to […]
MIGHT MAKES ‘RIGHT’: Why do right-wing adherents engage in more animal exploitation and meat consumption?
MIGHT MAKES ‘RIGHT’: Why do right-wing adherents engage in more animal exploitation and meat consumption?
KRISTOF DHONT: Despite the well-documented implications of individual differences in ideology with regard to reactions toward human out-groups, surprisingly little is understood about the implications for non-human animals. As Walker’s poignant observation clarifies, many biases, including those involving non-human animals, are rooted in common ideological belief systems and show psychological parallels Few studies have investigated relations between social-ideological orientations and exploitative attitudes and behaviors toward animals. Yet existing evidence reveals positive associations between right-wing ideologies such as RWA and SDO, on the one hand, and attitudes toward the exploitation of animals as objects for human benefit (e.g., animal testing, fur […]
‘For Patrick’: She worked in animal research, now she’s blocked from commenting on it
‘For Patrick’: She worked in animal research, now she’s blocked from commenting on it
RACHEL WEINER: For a long time, Madeline Krasno didn’t tell other animal rights advocates that she had worked in a monkey research lab as a college student. It had taken her years to understand her nightmares and fragmented memories as signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. And some activists could be vicious to former lab workers. But four years after she graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Krasno started posting online about her experiences. Eventually, she started tagging the school in those posts and then commenting on its pages. Many of those comments disappeared. As she would later learn, […]
