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Practical Animal Rights

Practical animal rights is about applying actual, tangible, hands-on activities that encourage and support the rights of animals. It is not so much about abstract thought-provoking ideas, as in animal ethics, although a knowledge of animal ethics can be an important guide for influencing people and for choosing which practical actions to take.

Scientists acknowledge that we are living in a mass extinction of life caused by humanity. Added to this, increasing numbers of people demand animals to eat, wear, use for sport, experimentation, etc.

Expanding the circle is a metaphor coined by the Irish historian and philosopher William Lecky (1838 - 1903). It means humanity is encompassing more creatures into its moral group as worthy of respect and moral consideration. The philosopher Peter Singer used Lecky's metaphor as the title of his book The Expanding Circle: ethics and sociobiology. To this end a growing number of people are applying practical animal rights.