Talk:Animal rights/to do


 * Add section on Frey ✅
 * Add Mill ✅
 * Add Hobbes
 * Expand Nussbaum and the capabilities approach
 * Expand Kant a little, check Kant source
 * Explain virtue ethics approach
 * Add brief section on animal advocacy and feminism ✅
 * Say more about Clark
 * Say more Rowlands and contractarianism ✅
 * Tighten writing, remove repetition
 * Tighten the Singer material
 * Upgrade remaining non-academic sources wherever possible
 * Make sure citation style is consistent
 * Add veganism (Gandhi, Salt, Kingsford, Watson) ✅
 * Look for sources for Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, and non-Western material generally
 * Add Cobbe/Kingsford disputes
 * Add Midgley
 * Add Rollin
 * Add something about the legal scholarship
 * Add section on Jainism
 * Add Darwin to the history section ✅
 * Add section on animal cognition, summary-style
 * Add animal rights view in different part of the world at present day. Such as in India.

To do list of the science section
 * 1)Statistics of of animal abuses/uses in different parts of the world, this present the state of animal rights in the world.
 * 2) more surveys of different group's opinions of animal rights issues.
 * 3) neurological study of inter-species compassion. There are major studies on this, see Mirror neuron.
 * 4) evolutionary study of altruist behaviours in humans. Altruist behaviours are not all about humans. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism#Evolutionary_explanations
 * 5) other great apes, humans' closest living relatives, and their similarity with humans. see Great ape personhood

India

I think India should have a independent section/subsection which can include following contents http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-17/india/31355109_1_cpcsea-control-and-supervision-cruelty
 * Ancient Indian had animal rights law according to this BBC documentary 'The story of India': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APn07PS-5qc
 * Ahimsa
 * per capita consumption of meat and uses of lab animals are very low in india. Its roughly 1/20 comparing to USA. It suggests good animal rights. see http://www.fas.usda.gov/dlp/circular/2007/livestock_poultry_04-2007.pdf and http://www.buav.org/_lib/userfiles/files/Science_Reports/Estimates_For_Worldwide_Laboratory.pdf for detailed statistics.
 * vegetarian population in India is very high. It suggests good animal rights.
 * Hinduism philosophy of human-animal relationship is unlike Abrahamic religions. Hinduism thinks animals have souls and are reincarnated humans.
 * There are Indian figures/academics promoting some forms of animal rights ideology. They do not have to call the position animal rights since it's an English term (the official language is Standard Hindi), as long they promote compassion and respect for animals. Their views should be included too. I am aware Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi said "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated", Search the sentence in Google book for reference (too many). We can also include Maneka Gandhi.
 * two articles of Indian’s recent ban of vivisection in education: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-21/flora-fauna/31378798_1_animal-rights-group-andrew-rowan
 * Arya Samaj influence on vegetarianism, recommended by other. Search "Arya Samaj vegetarianism" in Google book for more information.

Japan


 * Buddhism
 * two Buddhism,animal rights, source list provided by Tryptofish ,
 * See Japanese cuisine and Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. Oda Mari (talk) 08:50, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * text from Tokugawa Tsunayoshi "In the 1690s and first decade of the 18th century, Tsunayoshi, who was born in the Year of the Dog, thought he should take several measures concerning dogs. A collection of edicts released daily, known as the Edicts on Compassion for Living Things (生類憐みの令 Shōruiawareminorei?) "

SSZvH7N5n8 (talk) 19:30, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
 * text from wikipedia article Slaughterhouse: "In many societies, traditional cultural and religious aversion to slaughter led to prejudice against the people involved. In Japan, where the ban on slaughter of livestock for food[specify] was lifted only in the late 19th century".