The Animal Rights Zone Tom Regan Week.

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Monday May 16, 2011 13:03

by CB - Animal Rights Zone

The interactive animal rights social media site, Animal Rights Zone (ARZone) is pleased to announce a special event: The ARZone Tom Regan Week.

A week-long series of events have been organised (16 May - 21 May) to mark The ARZone Tom Regan Week, including the release of rare and exclusive questions and answers with the scholar/activist, a full transcript, and an ARZone member’s “workshop.”

Preeminent animal rights philosopher Professor Tom Regan is the award-winning author of more than 20 books, including The Case for Animal Rights (1983), Defending Animal Rights (2001) and Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights (2004). He has been described as “the philosophical leader of the animal rights movement” by the editors of Utne Reader (October, 2010) , who named him, along with the Dali Lama, as “one of fifty visionaries who are changing the world” [1] and is co-founder (with his partner Nancy) of the Culture and Animals Foundation.[2]

A week-long series of events have been organised (16 May - 21 May) to mark The ARZone Tom Regan Week, including the release of rare and exclusive questions and answers with the scholar/activist; a full transcript of Tom Regan’s interview conducted by ARZone; and culminating in an ARZone member’s “workshop” dedicated to a discussion of Prof. Regan’s body of work and his ARZone Q&As.

ARZone founder, Carolyn Bailey says: “This is a particularly important series of events for us at Animal Rights Zone. Prof. Regan is a very important person within the animal rights movement, not least because he provided the basic philosophical groundwork for what he calls the rights-based view approach aimed at abolishing the use of nonhuman animals.”

ARZone administrator Dr. Roger Yates says: “The importance of Tom Regan’s work in the history of the development of animal rights philosophy cannot be overstated. We are extremely happy that he has granted us a rare interview because it is important that his work is seen and appreciated by another generation of animal advocates.”

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[1] http://www.utne.com/Politics/50-Visionaries-Changing-Yo....aspx
[2] http://cultureandanimals.org/index.htm

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Tom Regan is an interesting man

by Interested

Thu Jun 21, 2012 09:57

I found this resource really interesting. If you are like me and are interested in animal rights, try this: http://arzone.ning.com/profiles/blogs/animal-rights-phi...r-tom

I like the idea of a philosopher addressing a new generation.

this **was** interesting!

by veganonymous

Fri Jun 22, 2012 03:05

Prof. Regan's approach to this subject is very down-to-earth.
It took a little digging on www.arzone.ning.com , but here are the links:

http://arzone.ning.com/profiles/blogs/animal-rights-phi...r-tom

http://arzone.ning.com/profiles/blogs/transcript-of-arz...gan-1 - part one

http://arzone.ning.com/profiles/blogs/transcript-of-arz...regan - part two

Thanks

Sat Jun 23, 2012 00:53

Many thanks for those links. Will check them out for sure.

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