Draft Mission Statement
The Animal Ethics Reading and Disucssion Group’s mission is to further advance awareness of the philosophical principles underlying the animal liberation movement. We feel there is a critical need for an examination of perceptions motivating humans’ role as co-habitants on Earth with other species. On the one hand, in the last half century there has been an unprecedented rise in animal abuse through the growth in population and technology, resulting in factory farms, vivisection, deforestation and other destructive developments to other species and our own. On the other hand, there has been a growing consciousness of animal abuse, and all manner of organizations have sprung up to defend, protect, liberate, shelter and rehabilitate wild and domesticated animals. This bifurcation in the cognizance of animal-related issues reflects a need for more meaningful societal conversation. We believe that at this point in history, a corpus of knowledge rooted in philosophical tenets would bring the movement forward to the next level.
