Anima rights?

Question

Do you know something about the history of animal rights? You know, so that thy would not be abused.

Answer 1

There is a book by a professor/philosopher from Australia called animal liberation. It's was written in the 1970's and it's considered to be the bible of the animal rights movement. Peter Singer is the author and he says that mistreatment of animals by people is comparable to racism or sexism and he refers to as speciesism.

There is a lot of animal rights info on the net. You should google animal rights or look it up on wikipedia.org in order to learn more about it. It's a very interesting subject.

Answer 2

Here is a website that might help you.

http://www.animalrightshistory.org/

Here is part of what they say;

Thomas Wentworth's Act of 1635 in Ireland, as well as Nathaniel Ward's contribution to the Massachusetts Body of Liberties of 1641 establishes American and English law against cruelty to animals almost 200 years prior to the passage of Richard Martin's Act of 1822, a Bill to Prevent the Cruel and Improper Treatment of Cattle. Since these contributions were largely unknown until the late 20th century, the modern era of anti-cruelty legislation is usually traced back to the precedence set by "Martin's Act" and the amendments and legislative enactments against cruelty to animals that followed. However, it is King Ashoka, in the 3rd century BCE that we must honor as being the first to decree law not only for the protection of animals, creating the first list of "protected" species but, progressive even by today's standards, proclaiming the slaughter of animals as food or for sacrifice unlawful.

I hope this helps a little.