ARCO's Abolitionists - A Vegan Forum

Here are a few links of antispeciesist websites. Antispeciesism is, in most cases, links to the abolitionist perspective.

The first one is that of the antispeciesist collective in paris - the website is in french: http://antispesite.free.fr/
The second one is that of a spanish group - the website is in spanish: http://www.equanimal.org/
i also thought of a group in england - ahah, at last some english : http://www.rightsforanimals.org/

This is a wonderful thread. We tried a couple of times to find such things in the original ARCO forum. Thanks for starting it here.

We came up with the Spanish org Igualdad Animal

We used to have a few of their members here; I hope they show up again!

I'm a bit surprised by such a list, since, as I see the term, being antispeciesist means nothing more specific than just opposing speciesism - defined as taking species differences as ethically significant per se. That definition is not linked to any particular philosophy, except that it defines speciesism in terms of ethics. (A Marxist, for instance, might take other approaches.)

In other words, most organisations that are for animal rights are antispeciesist; it's just that for some reason the term is not much in use in English-speaking countries. The list should thus be much much longer!

Other approaches than the rights approach - such as Peter Singer's utilitarian approach - are antispeciesist too.

In France, the term is more frequent than that of animal rights. That may be because it was first introduced here by the antispeciesist journal Les Cahiers antispécistes - by others and myself, with mainly an anarchistic, utilitarian and anti-naturalistic approach, but publishing articles from many other points of view, such as Tom Regan's, Steve Sapontzis's, etc.

The first link mentioned by pelagus is, at least as far as I know, not specifically associated with the Gary Francione approach; it is somewhat like the Cahiers antispécistes, but more anarchistic.

David

hi david & all.
First, i would love to be able to give a longer list of the antispeciesist groups... but i don't know many & i apologize i forgot to mention "les cahiers antispécistes".
i don't know many collectives out of europe that are involved with this understanding of domination. i actually have a friend in missouri who opened a group based on antispeciesism & animal rights after a few weeks spent with me.
Anyway, i think the reason why there aren't many groups in france dealing with both rights & antispeciesism is because there aren't many groups dealing with rights at all! When you see the groups here, it's more about new welfarism or complete welfarism... & then, some others who actually don't believe in rights at all (either for humans or non humans)
i do not link anything to antispeciesism, except the fact that it rejects domination & often spreads the refusal of domination to sex, gender, race, age, ect. But i absolutly do not link this term with "animal rights", & even less to the specific vision of gary francione.
i suspect more antispeciesist are closer to reagan & singer - but i could be wrong of course.

PS: my friend's page on myspace http://www.myspace.com/stlasc

oh.
**panthera learns something new**