Friends of Animals

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FoA activists demonstrate against the seal hunt .

Friends of Animals (FoA) is an animal rights organization based in Darien, Connecticut, United States. It was founded by Alice Herrington in Manhattan , New York in 1957 with the aim of reducing the number of stray cats and dogs by offering inexpensive castration and sterilization. The conservation and protection of wild animals was added later. Campaigns for animal rights are also carried out.

Gary L. Francione writes that Herrington was one of the earliest members of the animal rights movement to recognize the difference between animal rights and animal welfare. Herrington retired from FoA in 1986.

In 1981, the FoA propagated the Research Modernization Act in Congress, which aims to develop alternatives to animal testing in research.

The association campaigned against the hunt for the saber antelopes , which had been kept in large numbers on Texan hunting farms since the 1990s. They won a legal battle against the American Conservation Agency , which had issued an exemption for hunting the protected antelopes. As a result, hunting for the oryx in Texas became more difficult from April 2012. As a result, numerous farms reduced their oryx stocks. In January 2014 the American congress removed the saber antelope from the "endangered species list". This made it easier to hunt the antelope in the USA.

criticism

Critics accuse the association that they would rather risk the species becoming extinct than allow the animals to be hunted.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Howard Witt: Animal sanctuary accused of abuse . In: The Seattle Times , December 20, 2006. Retrieved January 13, 2009. 
  2. ^ A b Saxon Wolfgang: Alice Herrington, 75, Founder Of Friends of Animals, Is Dead . In: The New York Times , April 28, 1994. Retrieved January 13, 2009. 
  3. ^ Francione, Gary L .: Rain Without Thunder . Temple University Press, 1996; this edition 2005, p. 11.
  4. ↑ HR556, 87th Cong., 1st Sess. (1981).
  5. ^ Francione, Gary L .: Rain Without Thunder . Temple University Press, 1996; this edition 2005, pp. 91 and 248, p. 166 ff., Citing Rowan, Andrew. Of Mice, Models, and Men . State University of New York Press, 1984.
  6. ↑ In My View  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Priscilla Feral, President of Friends of Animals, Spring 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / friendsofanimals.org  
  7. ^ Antelopes in Texas: Hunting ban threatens rare animals , Martin Suter, 20 min, April 9, 2012
  8. ↑ Can hunting endangered animals save the species? , Lara Logan, Max McClellan, CBS, Jan 29, 2012
  9. ↑ Approved - Three amigos exempted from endangered species list , Conor Harrison, January 18, 2014, Texas Hunting
  10. ↑ Another permit will not help save the endangered oryx Mike Leggett, April 4, 2012.
  11. ↑ wrongheaded wildlife management Houston Chronicle, April 13 2012th