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Tag: Post-Speciesism

Are Teddy Bears Vegan? President Roosevelt and the SPCA

Dr. Corey WrennMay 15, 2017December 7, 2018
Speciesism, like any ideology of oppression, is effective in its banality. Consider the "teddy bear." Have you ever stopped to consider its origin? It is not so cuddly as you might imagine. Teddy bears traceContinue reading
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If You Care about Animals, In-Vitro Meat is Not the Answer

Dr. Corey WrennMay 30, 2016December 21, 2018
Posed as the perfect neoliberal solution to relieving speciesism while protecting markets and consumer desires, a number of non-profits have positioned themselves in support of in vitro research in pursuit of "lab grown meat." However,Continue reading
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What is Post-Speciesism?

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 9, 2016September 9, 2018
[caption id="attachment_417" align="alignnone" width="568"] Photo from Atlantic Hogs, a "free range" institution in Ireland[/caption]   Speciesism  is institutional discrimination and, to a lesser extent, individual prejudice against Nonhuman Animals based on their species. Speciesism isContinue reading
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Dr. Wrenn is Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016), was elected Chair in 2018, and is co-founder of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists. She serves as Book Review Editor to Society & Animals and is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Wrenn has been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Gender Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Environmental Values, Disability & Society, Food, Culture & Society, and Society & Animals. In July 2013, she founded the Vegan Feminist Network, an academic-activist project engaging intersectional social justice praxis. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019), and Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021).

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