Animal Rights Goal 14: Life below Water Goal 15: Life on Land Goal 16: Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions Learning Objectives To understand the difference between animal rights and animal extremism To consider how you could campaign for animal rights without extremism

Goals & Articles Goal 15: Life on Land Goal 16: Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions Article 13 (freedom of expression) Every child must be free to say what they think and to seek and receive information of any kind as long as it is within the law. Article 15 (freedom of association) Every child has the right to meet with other children and young people and to join groups and organisations, as long as this does not stop other people from enjoying their rights. Goals & Articles

Discuss Why do we need to look after animals and their environment? Why are animals important? Animals and plants need each other. When too many species die out too quickly, other species suffer. Our world needs many different animals and plants, and different types of habitats for them and us to live in. This is called biodiversity. Plants and trees filter our water and give us oxygen. Birds help to control pests and spread seeds. Bacteria and insects make soil more fertile so that crops can grow. Humans need many different animals for food and clothes and animals need other animals for food. We learn from animals and plants Saguaro cactus in Arizona desert habitat. We learn about medicines from plants and animals, and we need them for many of the medicines we use. We can also study how animals and plants survive in different climates and conditions and learn from them. Animals and plants can tell us when things aren't right Frog on a rock. Sometimes we don’t know there is a problem until something happens to animals and plants and we ask why. For example, we now know that if frogs and turtles are in trouble, we probably have a problem with our water supply.

What do animal rights campaigners want? No experiments on animals No breeding and killing animals for food or clothes or medicine No use of animals for hard labour No selective breeding for any reason other than the benefit of the animal No hunting No zoos or use of animals in entertainment What do animal rights campaigners want?

What is animal extremism? releasing animals from captivity in laboratories, factory farms, fur farms, etc publishing names, addresses, phone numbers of employees on extremist websites threatening letters and harassing telephone calls to employees' homes sending packages to homes of targets containing offensive material e.g. used toilet paper, razor blades vandalising cars, smashing windows and spraying graffiti staging intimidating protests at company premises and employees' homes using fake explosive devices assaults What is animal extremism? Have you ever heard of animal extremism? Explain that looking after animals and our environment is important but how extremism is dangerous. As with extremism in other forms, animal extremism is when animal rights campaigners take a extreme, hateful and violent approach to animal rights campaigning. These are some of the things that they have done Including: flooding companies with emails, faxes and telephone calls in an attempt to disrupt the companies' business sending anonymous letters to the neighbours of targeted directors making false allegations that the individual is a paedophile ordering goods and services in the name of the victim staging disruptive office invasions

Write down ways in which people could campaign for the rights and protection of animals without leading to animal extremism Activity