The world’s first animal rights organization launched successfully, then fractured & failed without a second meeting NEW YORK CITY––What if the animal rights movement, as we know it today, had launched out of the older humane movement 55 years earlier? It nearly happened. The animal rights movement as a distinct direction in animal advocacy is […]
The Human Side of Animals, by Royal Dixon
Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Project Gutenberg Ebook #19850, 2006. Free download from <http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19850>. Originally published by Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1918. 254 pages, hardcover. Royal Dixon, who in 1921 launched the First Church of Animal Rights to great fanfare but with no evident follow-up, was no Cleveland Amory. (See “Intersectional issues” broke up the 1st Church of Animal Rights––in 1921.) […]