Animal rights movement

Activists protesting outside the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus at the Civic Coliseum in Knoxville, Tennessee

The animal rights movement, sometimes called the animal liberation, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement that seeks an end to the rigid moral and legal distinction drawn between human and non-human animals, an end to the status of animals as property, and an end to their use in the research, food, clothing, and entertainment industries.^[1]

^ Stooksbury, Kara E.; Scheb II, John M.; Stephens Jr., Otis H. (2019) [2017]. "Animal Rights". In Stooksbury, Kara E.; Scheb II, John M.; Stephens, Otis H. Jr. (eds.). Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties: Revised and Expanded Edition. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Santa Barbara, California and Denver, Colorado: ABC-Clio. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-4408-4110-1. LCCN 2017027542.

[1] Stooksbury, Kara E.; Scheb II, John M.; Stephens Jr., Otis H. (2019) [2017]. "Animal Rights". In Stooksbury, Kara E.; Scheb II, John M.; Stephens, Otis H. Jr. (eds.). Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties: Revised and Expanded Edition. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Santa Barbara, California and Denver, Colorado: ABC-Clio. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-4408-4110-1. LCCN 2017027542.

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