fiction.wikisort.org - WriterNorm Phelps (born Norman Nelson Phelps, III; May 16, 1939 – December 31, 2014)[2][3] was an American animal rights activist, vegetarian and writer. He was a founding member of the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians (SERV),[4] and a former outreach director of the Fund for Animals.[5] He authored four books on animal rights: The Dominion of Love: Animal Rights According to the Bible (2002), The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights (2004), The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA (2007), and Changing the Game: Animal Liberation in the Twenty-first Century (2015).
Norm Phelps |
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Born | Norman Nelson Phelps, III May 16, 1939 USA |
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Died | December 31, 2014(2014-12-31) (aged 75) Meritus Medical Center, Hagerstown, Maryland, USA |
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Resting place | Maryland |
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Occupation | Author, animal advocate |
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Citizenship | United States |
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Alma mater | University of Maryland, College Park |
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Period | late 20th century; early 21st century |
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Genre | Religious philosophy |
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Subjects | vegetarianism, veganism, animal rights, spirituality |
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Literary movement | Animal rights; religion and animal rights; religion; animal advocacy |
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Spouse | Patti Rogers[1] |
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Children | 2 |
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www.animalsandethics.org |
Biography
Phelps spoke at numerous conferences, including the National Conference on Organized Resistance, the University of Oregon's Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, several of the annual Animal Rights Conferences sponsored by the Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), and the Compassionate Living Festival. He also published articles, essays, and book reviews in several periodicals: Journal of Critical Animal Studies,[6] Philosophia, Satya, The Animals’ Voice, and VegNews.
Phelps had become a vegetarian and then a vegan following the death of his dog Czar in 1984. As Phelps describes this change process on his website, "Czar was a person. He had a personality as individual and well-defined as any human being. He could love, he could trust, he could share, he could enjoy, he could fear, he could worry, he could look forward to the future and remember the past, he had a sense of who he was, and he would have sacrificed himself for me without a moment's hesitation. . . . If Czar was a person, what about other animals? What about cows, pigs, chickens and sheep? Weren't they people, too? How could we love some and eat others?"
In 1994, Phelps retired from the federal government and joined the campaigns office of The Fund for Animals in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he became active in the campaign to end the live pigeon shoot which was then held every Labor Day in the village of Hegins, Pennsylvania. (The shoot ended in 1998.) When The Fund for Animals merged with The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Phelps joined the staff of the HSUS wildlife protection campaign, where he worked until he resigned for reasons of age and health in 2011. (From 2002 until his death, Phelps had suffered from myasthenia gravis, an auto-immune neuromuscular condition that causes severe fatiguable weakness.)
As an animal rights theorist, Phelps argues that the animal rights movement must: 1) Engage religious communities on the side of animal rights, 2) Join with progressive movements for social and economic justice and environmental protection to create a genuine universal rights movement, and 3) pursue a "two-track" strategy of advocating veganism and the abolition of all animal exploitation while simultaneously campaigning for more moderate reforms, such as Meatless Mondays and the abolition of battery cages for laying hens. Although he is generally opposed to militant direct action on the grounds that it is counterproductive, Phelps supported live rescues of animals from farms and laboratories. In 1994, he was arrested at a pigeon shoot in Pikeville, Pennsylvania for releasing 200 pigeons who were slated to become living targets. He spent two days in Berks County Prison and was subsequently convicted of malicious mischief.
He lived in Funkstown, Maryland (USA) with his second wife, Patti Rogers. He is survived by his 2 children, his son Nelson and his daughter Kyra.
Education
- University of Maryland, College Park, BA, history, philosophy, 1958–1962.[7]
Publications
Books
- The Dominion of Love: Animal Rights According to the Bible. Lantern Books, New York, 2002. 208 pages.
- The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights. Lantern Books, New York, 2004. 240 pages.
- The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA. Lantern Books, New York, 2007. 368 pages.
Articles
Audio podcasts
Published Interviews
- The Dominion of Love: Interview with the Abolitionist Online
- The Great Compassion: Interview with the Abolitionist Online
Book Reviews
Video lectures
See also
- Alex Hershaft
- Buddhism
- Christian Vegetarian Association
- Ethical veganism
- Henry Spira
- Moral status of animals in the ancient world
- Oxford Group (animal rights)
- Richard Schwartz
- Roberta Kalechofsky
- Veganism
Notes
- Biography at animalsandethics.org
- Norm Phelps – 1939-2014, Compassion Over Killing
- "Norm Phelps, 75, spiritual mentor to the animal rights movement". Animals 24-7. 2015-01-12. Retrieved 2020-09-10.
- Website of the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians
- Phelps, Norm (2007). The Longest Struggle. Lantern Books.
- Phelps, Norm (2008). "Rhyme, Reason, and Animal Rights", Journal for Critical Animal Studies, vol 6, issue 1
- LinkedIn profile, Norm Phelps
Further reading
Animal rights |
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Academics and writers | Contemporary |
- Carol J. Adams
- Aysha Akhtar
- Kristin Andrews
- Tom Beauchamp
- Marc Bekoff
- Steven Best
- Paola Cavalieri
- Stephen R. L. Clark
- Alasdair Cochrane
- J. M. Coetzee
- Alice Crary
- David DeGrazia
- Daniel Dombrowski
- Sue Donaldson
- Josephine Donovan
- Mylan Engel
- Catia Faria
- Lawrence Finsen
- Gary L. Francione
- Robert Garner
- Valéry Giroux
- John Hadley
- Oscar Horta
- Dale Jamieson
- Kyle Johannsen
- Melanie Joy
- Hilda Kean
- Will Kymlicka
- Renan Larue
- Thomas Lepeltier
- Andrew Linzey
- Clair Linzey
- Dan Lyons
- David Nibert
- Martha Nussbaum
- Siobhan O'Sullivan
- Clare Palmer
- David Pearce
- Evelyn Pluhar
- Mark Rowlands
- Richard D. Ryder
- Steve F. Sapontzis
- Jeff Sebo
- Jérôme Segal
- Peter Singer
- Gary Steiner
- Cass Sunstein
- David Sztybel
- Michael Tye
- Tatjana Višak
- Paul Waldau
- Steven M. Wise
- Corey Lee Wrenn
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Groups | Contemporary |
- Animal Aid
- Animal Ethics
- Animal Justice Project
- Animal Legal Defense Fund
- Animal Liberation
- Animal Liberation Front
- Anonymous for the Voiceless
- Centre for Animals and Social Justice
- Chinese Animal Protection Network
- Cruelty Free International
- Direct Action Everywhere
- Equanimal
- Farm Animal Rights Movement
- Faunalytics
- Great Ape Project
- Hunt Saboteurs Association
- In Defense of Animals
- Korea Animal Rights Advocates
- L214
- Last Chance for Animals
- Mercy for Animals
- New England Anti-Vivisection Society
- Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
- People for Animals
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
- Sentience Politics
- Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- United Activists for Animal Rights
- United Poultry Concerns
- UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics
- Voice for Animals Humane Society
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Historical |
- Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society
- Humanitarian League (1891–1919)
- Oxford Group
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Parties |
- Animal Justice Party (Australia)
- Animal Politics EU (Europe)
- Animal Protection Party of Canada (Canada)
- Animal Welfare Party (UK)
- Animal Justice Party of Finland (Finland)
- Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (Spain)
- DierAnimal (Belgium)
- Human Environment Animal Protection (Germany)
- Italian Animalist Party (Italy)
- Party for Animal Welfare (Ireland)
- Party for the Animals (Netherlands)
- People Animals Nature (Portugal)
- V-Partei³ (Germany)
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Books |
- Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824)
- Animals' Rights (1892)
- Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology (1897)
- The Universal Kinship (1906)
- The New Ethics (1907)
- Animals, Men and Morals (1971)
- Animal Liberation (1975)
- The Case for Animal Rights (1983)
- Morals, Reason, and Animals (1987)
- Do Animals Have Rights? (1998)
- The Lives of Animals (1999)
- Striking at the Roots (2008)
- An American Trilogy (2009)
- An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (2010)
- Animal Rights Without Liberation (2012)
- Political Animals and Animal Politics (2014)
- Animal (De)liberation (2016)
- Sentientist Politics (2018)
- Wild Animal Ethics (2020)
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Periodicals | Journals |
- Animal Sentience
- Between the Species
- Cahiers antispécistes
- Etica & Animali
- Journal of Animal Ethics
- Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism
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Magazines |
- Arkangel
- Bite Back
- Muutoksen kevät
- No Compromise
- Satya
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