The 1st Church of Animal Rights tried to launch the movement in 1921

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

 

 

The 1st Church of Animal Rights tried to launch the movement in 1921

 

What if the animal rights movement had launched out of the

older humane movement 55 years earlier, before factory farming

methods were invented, before laboratory use of animals expanded

into big business, before wildlife management was funded by hunting

license fees, before the humane movement came to be dominated by an

" animal welfare " rather than " animal rights " philosophy?

This is no mere fantasy. It could have happened, impelled

by the brief confluence of Diana Belais and Royal Dixon, flamboyant

and charismatic personalities whose talents and background,

differently mixed, paralleled those of the late Cleveland Amory,

who founded the Fund for Animals in 1968, and Ingrid Newkirk, who

cofounded People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in 1981.

Belais and Dixon on March 13, 1921 attracted more than 300

prominent and affluent New Yorkers to the Hotel Astor for the

founding meeting of the First Church for Animal Rights....

 

 

 

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