Animal Rights:
Reform and Reaction
Submitted by:
Yasmeen Brownlee
Imani Johnson
Sophia Henninger
Documentary
Process paper:
The topic that my group and I (Imani) created our NHD project on was animal rights reaction and reform. This topic was chosen because we found it interesting that in an age where unfair treatment of a living being is always fought for to be corrected, animals are still getting the shorter end of the stick. Animal abuse is not a recent topic but has been occurring since the beginning of time and my group and I very much wanted to look more into how animal treatment improved at any point in time.
To start of our research we first had to uncover what type of treatment animals go through nowadays and what they are used in. Starting with that was crucial to our research because we needed to know what type of things we had to look for, like if we wanted to specifically look into animal testing for cosmetics or scientific experimentation or possibly looking into the unnecessary treatment of animals in the food industry. Animal rights covers a large variety of animal treatment, so researching on modern day’s most recent attention grabbing animal abuse stories helped us decide which topic we wanted to cover. After compiling a couple of articles we decided we wanted to show how word of animal testing got out to the public by using ads, undercover investigators, lectures, debates and public protests. Once deciding this, my group member and I split up what we wanted to look at. Sophie looked up the change in ads of different animal protecting organizations. I looked up lectures and debates from many different animal activists, while Yasmeen searched for public protests.
We chose the documentary format for our project because after researching the fight for animal rights we realized that all of the best information was coming from documentaries. It was a good choice for the project because this is an emotionally charged issue and by doing a documentary, we were able to express sentiment easier than if we had chosen to do a website or essay. We put our video together by collecting videos and photos from animals rights organizations and their campaigns. We also took footage from television segments where people were advocating to stop animal injustices.
Our documentary relates to the National History Day theme through the representation of reform. All of the foundations, campaigns, rallies, and advertisements put forth by the animal rights organizations were in attempts to reform animal cruelty laws. Also, many campaigns were aimed at changing peoples views on how much animals feel and how we need to respect them. In it’s entirety, our documentary shows all the different methods animal supporters have taken to create and better and fairer world for all animals.
Annotated Bibliography:
http://cdn.imnotobsessed.com/wp-content/uploads/640_jenna_jameson_ad1.jpg
This is part of a campaign launched by PETA. It features scantly clad men and women, some with sections of their bodies marked off as if they were a cattle going to the slaughterhouse. The most controversial ads have been put out in the “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” campaign. These are all featuring celebrities showing some skin to raise awareness of the cruelty of the fur industry. The point of this campaign is to draw peoples attention with almost naked people, then once they’re hooked, educate them.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3062618,00.html
This article was brought out in the Israeli news, which means that animal testing isn’t just a American thing and is actually a concern world wide. This is another case where regulation reform was trying to be passed, however society and people are not that really accepting of it. However, many people voiced strong argument and statements in its support. This article also proves the point that animal testing does not provide accurate data/ it’s not reliable enough.
http://www.aspca.org/fight-animal-cruelty/farm-animal-cruelty/aspca-and-farm-animals.aspx
This is a website with a timeline of the ASPCA's attempts to create equal rights for fair animals. It dates back all the way to 1866. This is full of examples of how the moment for animal rights has changed over time. It may prove useful if we end up comparing the old methods to the new methods.
http://www.peta.org/about/default.aspx
PETA is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. A group that has fought for animal rights since 1980 and has often taken drastic measures to do so. When people think of animal rights, PETA is usually one of the first organizations that come to mind. This could be a good source to find for recent examples of campaigns for animal rights.
http://www.nytimes.com /2007/05/31/business/31testing.html?scp=3&sq=animal%20testing&st=cse
Seeing the change in large companies with animal testing is a large win for animal activist because it’s giving them hope that change will be occurring. This article is a little more recent, so I can use this to show how things started to truly change. Like from barely being cooperative with the animal rescue organizations and now agreeing that their animal testing isn’t necessary.
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081112/full/456152b.html
This is a very short blog post on regulation reform regarding animal testing. Unfortunately the blog doesn’t go in depth. It’s interesting as to how the reform only effects animals from the wild and not domestic animals. Does this mean that they don’t care as much for domestic animals?
http://speakingofresearch.com/author/unlikelyactivist/
The article was about how scientists are slowly realizing that primate experimentation is not really necessary anymore. Like they were very useful in research in the past years but now they are not really needed anymore. The article also mentions that the report talked about the ethical and scientific issues behind animal testing.
http://www.aboutanimaltesting.co.uk/using-animals-testing-pros-versus-cons.html
This website has a pros and cons list for animal testing, though only the cons will be relevant our argument. It may be interesting though to investigate the pros and exactly how “pro” they are. It may be useful to follow the pros and see if there has been any research that proves them irrelevant.
http://shirtoid.com/13426/stop-animal-testing-they-dont-know-the-answers/
This is a cartoon that is trying to state that testing of animals is dumb since the animals do not have the answers. At least not the answers that humans want.
This is a good article on how people can actually see how animal testing truly effects animals. It also shows how people argue on the pros and cons of animal testing. Plus it relates with the NHD theme which is reaction. It’s a reaction to the fact that too many chimps are used in testing. It also mentions the terrible things that is tested on the chimps like AIDS.
http://www.nytimes.com /2007/05/31/business/31testing.html?scp=3&sq=animal%20testing&st=cse
Seeing the change in large companies with animal testing is a large win for animal activist because it’s giving them hope that change will be occurring. This article is a little more recent, so it can be used to show how things started to truly change. Like from barely being cooperative with the animal rescue organizations and now agreeing that their animal testing isn’t necessary.
http://rightwingnews.com/quotes/animal.php
This link consists of multiple quotes from the animal right movement. It covers different sections of the movement like animal testing, the idea of whether or not humans and animals are worth the same, and other things. These quotes would be great to use in the paper since it usually always helps having actual quotes when trying to validate your ideas. Also since the quotes are from people who are fighting for animal rights, I could research the background of that person and see what else they are involved with. Hopefully one of the people who are quotes have cases for protesting.
http://animalrights.about.com/od/animalrights101/a/TimelineModern.htm
This link shows a general timeline outlining the animal cruelty movement. Like anything related to animal cruelty like cases, when organizations are formed and other things. It basically gives me somethings I could use as a guide for my research with greatly benefited my paper because it gives me many different things to look at.
http://zomobo.net/animal-rights-bill-david-icke-speaks
This link contains multiple links to videos of important animal rights activists that have many different backgrounds. The videos are of the men speaking out at either a debate or lecture.
This is a link that leads to the document of an article from the New York Times Company that was written about the new status on animal activists. An interesting part of the article is that it mentions philosophers supporting animal rights.
http://www.animalexperimentspictures.com/photo/664
This is a link that contains a picture that shows animal testing for scientific research. It is of either a mouse or rat that has his sides pinned a table with his organs exposed.
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/animal-testing-bad-science.aspx
This is a link that is an article attached with a picture of a bunny with his skin shaved off on one side because of scientific experimentation. However the purpose of the bunny’s side being skinned of the experiment is unknown.
This link leads to the document of an article from the New York Times Company that was written about the car company, Ford, and their animal testing.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1g6mgZ/redux.com/stream/item/2093074/Earthlings-Full-length-documentary
This is a pretty awesome video that comments on animal abuse and how it is very similar to the abuse humans put other humans through. The narrator also talks about how people really blow off animal abuse and how they get offended over animal protectors relating animal abuse and human tragedy like the holocaust. Which is dumb because the mistreatment that animals have been put through is the same type of treatment those in the holocaust had to endure. Both situations are horrible things that humans inflect upon another living thing. The type of help that the holocaust victims were provided is the same type of help animals are hoping for.
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3205
Pamela Anderson also showed PETA some support by baring all in a vegetarian campaign. In the photo, Ms. Anderson has her body sectioned off just as done to cattle before being slaughtered for meat production. This ad caused a stir not only due to the star’s popularity but also because there is often a disconnect between humans and animals. By having the different sections of her body marked off in this fashion, it momentarily reminds people that we are all animals and all deserve fair treatment.
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