🌱☮ Magnus Schwantje, The Relation of the Animal Defence Movement to Other Ethical Movements (1909)

🌱🙏 There have always been those who saw animal rights as intertwined with other social justice causes

🌱🙏 There have always been those who saw animal rights as intertwined with other social justice causes

Magnus Schwantje, 1909

THE RELATION OF THE ANIMAL DEFENCE MOVEMENT TO OTHER ETHICAL MOVEMENTS, SUCH AS REFORMS IN THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE AND DIET.

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Schwantje’s essay was published in the proceedings of the International Anti-Vivisection and Animal Protection Congress (ADVS) of 1909.

Trailblazing Swedish-British feminist and animal rights activist Lizzy Lind af Hagby co-founded ADVS and organized the conference.

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“I consider the personal association of Animal Defenders with the advocates of other ethical causes to be the most important means of winning new and zealous fellow-workers in our own movement.”

“We should, therefore, regard all ethical societies as our confederates, and extend to them our support.”

“I think it, however, urgently necessary that Animal Defenders should associate themselves more than hitherto with other societies, and support those societies in particular which have made it their aim to bring about a better mutual understanding between the workers in different departments.”

“A fundamental and permanent improvement in the position of animals will not be possible until great moral reforms have appeared in other departments as well; nay, some of our most important aims will remain wholly unintelligible to the majority of mankind, so long as they live in their present circumstances.”

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Read the essay: https://archive.org/details/b28118893/page/322/mode/2up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Schwantje

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzy_Lind_af_Hageby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Defence_and_Anti-Vivisection_Society