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Title: Animal Activists


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Animal Activists
2
Saving animals
  • Mary Wollstonecraft 1700s
  • Original Stories from Real Life
  • Shows bad boy breaking birds legs and the evil
    fate he suffers until he learns to be kind
  • Conduct books

3
Anne Bronte Agnes Grey
  • Brontë depicts scenes of cruelty towards animals,
    as well as degrading treatment of Agnes.
  • Parallels have been drawn between the oppression
    of these two groups-animals and females-that are
    "beneath" the upper class human male.2
  • Agnes tries to impart in her charges the ability
    to empathize with others.

4
Anne Bronte Agnes Gray
  • Agnes Grey (1847)
  • Governess teaches wild children to respect nature
  • Morals, conduct taught during story
  • Sister wrote Jane Eyre (also about governess
    treatment

5
Society for the Protection of Birds
  • Mrs. Robert Williams England
  • Held meeting/ teas to tell women about the rapid
    decline of the egret due to womens fashionable
    hats
  • Eliza Philips started Fur, Fin and Feathers
    Society, eventually merged with Society for the
    Protection of Birds
  • Bird Notes and News
  • Sea Bird Protection Act 1869 saved England
    shorebirds but began import of almost a million
    birds from Asia, India and South America

6
Philips and Lemon cont
  • 1891 Destruction of Ornamental Plumaged Birds
  • Sent to Queen, who sent a note back that she was
    already aware of the problem
  • Tried to shame women into giving up fashion to
    save birds
  • Non-scientific approach

7
Saving the birds
  • Counter to commerce of the day feathers
  • Hunters
  • Processor
  • Millinery (hat makers)
  • Public speech in 1903
  • When it is too late, men and women will discover
    what a poor, worthless, uninhabitable place this
    world is without the birds

8
The Pledge
  • Margareta Lemon, worked with Philips, wrote
    articles cartoons showing cruelty of hat
    fashions for birds
  • Made members sign pledge
  • discourage the use of live animals, refrain
    from wearing feathers
  • Note church goers wearing feathers, sent notes
    telling them how many birds died to make their
    hats.

9
History of bird feather use
  • http//americanhistory.si.edu/feather/index.htm
  • "WINGS, BREASTS BIRDS"
  • by Joanne Haug, fashion editor
  • "The entire bird is used, and is mounted on wires
    and springs that permit the head and wings to be
    moved about in the most natural manner." Harper's
    Bazaar, 1875
  • http//www.riverjunction.com/
  • http//www.victoriana.com/Victorian-Hats/birdhats.
    htm

10
Hats fans
11
White feathers
12
Sample of Birds affected
  • Snowy egret
  • Tumpeter swan (down to 69 birds in 1930s)
  • White Pelicans
  • Whooping Cranes
  • Ostrich
  • herons

13
Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918
  • United States legislation implementing the
    convention between the U.S. and Great Britain
    (for Canada). It replaced the Weeks-McLean Act,
    which had become effective in 1913.
  • The United States subsequently entered into
    similar agreements with four other nations
    (Canada, Mexico, Japan and Russia) to protect
    migratory birds.
  • The statute makes it unlawful to pursue, hunt,
    take, capture, kill or sell birds listed therein
    ("migratory birds"). The statute does not
    discriminate between live or dead birds and also
    grants full protection to any bird parts
    including feathers, eggs and nests.
  • Over 800 species are currently on the list.
  • http//www.birdiq.com/learn/laws.html

14
For the Animals
  • Frances Power Cobbe (mid 1800s)
  • Crusaded for women animals
  • Helped pass the Married Womens Property Act of
    1870
  • Against vivisection and cruelty to lab animals
    (hero of current PETA groups)
  • Wrote several books and articles
  • The New Morality sensitivity to pain of animals
    recognized.

15
The National Anti-vivisection Society
  • Formed in 1921, US
  • http//www.navs.org/site/PageServer?pagenameindex
  • 1. What is vivisection?
  • 2. How do they propose to change science to
    avoid vivisection
  • 3. What is the controversy? Why are people so
    upset about this?
  • 4. What are some of the problems with
    vivisection?
  • 5. What are the solutions?
  • 6. What do you think about it?
  • 7. What do you think the future will hold for
    this practice (will we develop alternatives
    why?)

16
Animal rights
  • Sarah Grand The Beth Book
  • Cruelty and indifference to animals tied to
    cruelty to women
  • World of men portrayed as insensitive, uncaring
  • Must change both men and womens attitude toward
    each other animals

17
Anna Sewell Black Beauty
  • Mistreatment and insensitivity to animals was
    common in the 1800s. 
  • Several authors were using fiction literature
    for children to teach morals and ethics. 
  • Conduct book
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