Concern for Green Issues: Are you from Animal Rights background or an Environmentalist?

Question

Concern for Green Issues

Are you from an Animal Right's Background
Or did you start out as an Environmentalist?


Further Info

ALDF's Future of Animal Law conference keynote speaker Jeremy Rifkin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWvLF7NUOls&mode=related&search=

Rifkin believes that you either come from An Animal Right's background - which stems from empathy for a fellow creature's well being and struggle (I came from Animal Right's Background)

Or from an Environment background which is about logic, rationalizations and systems.

Answer 1

It's an interesting idea, but I don't think people divide up that neatly. As someone once said "There are two kinds of people. Those who believe there are two kinds of people and those who don't."

Answer 2

i'm an environmentalist and have faith in animal rights yet on the comparable time do no longer have faith animals ought to have to any extent further rights as human beings. they must be equivalent in rights not greater or much less. Now as you have aptly observed there is unquestionably a organic order of issues. i think this organic involves no longer taking to any extent further from nature than is mandatory. If we choose meat for survival then it particularly is comprehensible. I in spite of the undeniable fact that think of that maximum individuals of the international is at a place wherein they could forgo meat and positively be the fit for it. As some significant section reward it may help to alleviate a mass quantity of suffering besides as take the pressures off the ambience that produces meat motives. Now i do no longer understand what you're relating while it involves blowing issues out of proportion. I even have heard PETA is against issues like seeing eye canines and that i agree that is especially stupid. yet encouraging society to make compassionate and conscious options is something yet stupid. IMO it particularly is one step closer to enlightenment.

Answer 3

I come from an environmental background. There is nothing inherently immoral about eating animals. The moral issues come from the treatment of the animals and the impacts to other natural systems as a result of how we raise and process animals.

Answer 4

I have lots of info that I think you will find quite helpful and enlightening:

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Along with lots of environmental info, amazing environmental pictures and videos (These videos show the beauty of this world and what life can be like if people take the time to appreciate life’s true beauty).

Let us all strive for a greener/brighter future by helping to create a solid foundation for future generations to build upon, so we can hand them a beautiful world, filled with never ending awe and wonders!!

Where peoples differences and uniqueness are accepted, where we all live as one, helping one another so that we can all play our own mysteriously beautiful melodies in the never ending, awe inspiring, song of life :-)

I truly have faith in humanity and believe that someday our lives and the world in which we live will truly be transformed for the better.

Answer 5

Jeremy Rifkin is a known crackpot and is best ignored.

Answer 6

I am an environmental Scientist by trade.
I love my dogs.
I harvest and eat nature's bounty, both vegetable and animal.

Answer 7

Yea, he's a whackjob if I've ever heard one.