Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!buelow From: buelow@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Kenneth D Buelow) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Animal Rights Electronic Network (long) Summary: Info on a network discussing animal rights issues Message-ID: Date: 5 Jul 90 16:12:26 GMT Sender: news@uwm.edu Followup-To: buelow@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Distribution: sci.bio sci.med sci.research sci.psychology rec.pets Organization: UW-Milwaukee Computing Services Lines: 136 Some weeks back, I put a message on several newsgroups asking if anyone knew of a newsgroup or network which discussed the topic of animals in research and/or animal rights. I received many indications of interest in such a group, and (finally) a message (reproduced below) which identified the Animal Rights Electronic Network (AREN). I thought it would be a good idea to post this to the various networks, so that others would also know that it DID exist. Here it is: ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Jun 90 17:01:06 PDT From: Jim Nusbaum Message-Id: <9006220001.AA10288@snowbird.LABS.TEK.COM> To: buelow@CSD4.CSD.UWM.EDU Subject: Re: Use of Animals in Research ----- Begin Statement of Purpose ----- Welcome to Animal-Rights! [20 Jun 1990] Animal Rights is a collection of unmoderated electronic mailing lists for the discussion of the relationships between human and non-human animals. These lists are administered via the Animal Rights Electronic Network (AREN), an organization dedicated to bringing the issues of animal rights/welfare into public discourse. Currently, the collection consists of two lists: ar-talk and ar-news. Ar-talk is an open discussion forum while ar-news is a news-items-only mailing list. The purpose of these lists is provide an open forum where news, ideas, philosophies, and concerns can be exchanged freely. Debates are likely to occur as well as new friendships and associations. The underlying goal behind this mailing list is bring the Animal Rights debate further into the open and give everyone a chance to examine their own beliefs. This topic is open to anyone who is interested, regardless of their opinions on Animal Rights. There are no restrictions on subject material other than it should be related to Animal Rights, germane to the mailing list distributing the posting, and be in accordance with the spirit of the Internet (e.g. no commercial advertising). As a starting point for anyone wishing to investigate Animal Rights, I strongly recommend Dr. Peter Singer's book "Animal Liberation". In this book, he proposes a "New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals" and many activist groups, such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), regard this as the "Bible of the Animal Rights movement". The ideas in the book are presented in a scholarly manor and are not ladden with sentimentality. It should give anyone a strong basis for a critical examination of this movement. I also strongly recommend Dr. Tom Regan's book "The Case for Animal Rights." Here is a list of topics likely to be discussed in this list; it is, by far, not complete: Animal Rights Animal Liberation Consumer Product Testing Cruelty-Free Products Vivasection/Dissection Medical Testing Animals in Laboratories Research Using Animals Hunting/Trapping/Fishing Animals in Entertainment Factory Farming Fur Ecology Environmental Protection Vegetarianism Vegan Lifestyles Christian Perspectives Genetic Engineering The list is coordinated by: Chip Roberson . All requests to be added to or deleted from this list should be sent to: Animal-Rights-Request@[xanth.]cs.odu.edu (Internet) Animal-Rights-Request@cs.odu.edu (Bitnet) Animal-Rights-Request@xanth.uucp (UUCP) UK-Animal-Rights-Request@umist.ac.uk (United Kingdom) >INTERNET:Animal-Rights-Request@cs.odu.edu (CompuServe) Postings to the lists should be directed to the appropriate address. To initiate or reply to a discussion, send e-mail to: animal-rights-talk@cs.odu.edu (or ar-talk@cs.odu.edu) To post a news-related item, send e-mail to: animal-rights-news@cs.odu.edu (or ar-news@cs.odu.edu) Appropriate postings to news include: posting a news item, requesting information on some event, or responding to a request for information. Discussions on ar-news will not be allowed and we ask that any commentary either be taken to ar-talk or to private e-mail. Currently, the lists are distributed via gateways to both the WEB network and the FIDOnet echo Animal Bytes. A full bidirectional feed of these lists to FIDOnet is in the works as well as access for all Bitnet subscribers via a listserv-er. A newsgroup in USENET News is likely to come up for a Call for Discussion this summer. AREN also administers an Animal Rights section in the PETS/ANIMALS forum on CompuServe which includes a real-time conference on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month at 10:00 pm Eastern Time. Archives of messages posted to this list are available via anonymous ftp from XANTH.CS.ODU.EDU in the directory `arights'. An archive-server is being installed at ODU which will provide access to those who don't have ftp capabilities. [John, I did find the "arights" directory after moving through some higher level directories first. - Ken Buelow] I would like to thank Scott Yelich (scott@cs.odu.edu), without whose efforts this list would still be a dream. Thanks, Scott. I would also like to thank Old Dominion University for allowing this mailing list to use their resources. Thank you, Tad Guy and ODU. Thinks also go to numerous other people who have helped expanding this list to other networks and who have made the list more functional. cheers, -chip -=- Charles S. Roberson ARPANET: csrobe@cs.wm.edu -=- -=- UUCP: ...!uunet!cs.wm.edu!csrobe -=- -=- Dept of Comp. Sci. Compu$erve: 71500.2056@compuserve.com -=- -=- College of William and Mary Ma Bell: [W] (804) 221-3420 -=- -=- Williamsburg, VA 23185 [H] (804) 229-5530 -=- ------ End Statement of Purpose ------ Jim Nusbaum, Computer Research Lab, Tektronix, Inc. [ucbvax,decvax,allegra,uw-beaver,hplabs]!tektronix!snowbird!rjn rjn@snowbird.labs.tek.com (503) 627-4612 ========================================================================= Ken Buelow University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee