How to Use animal rights in a Sentence

animal rights

plural noun
  • An animal rights group accused the church of cruel treatment.
    Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Dec. 2020
  • Resistance from animal rights groups has prevented culling of the herds to sustainable size.
    Kiliii Yüyan, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The presence of the disease on mink farms has, of course, brought more attention to the whole issue of fur and fur farming from animal welfare and animal rights groups.
    James Gorman, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
  • For animal rights groups, the debacle illustrates why fur farming should be eliminated.
    NBC News, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Efforts to ban fur farming, often in response to campaigns led by animal rights activists, are now accelerating.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Still, salvaging roadkill continues to enjoy wide support from conservationists, hunters and even some animal rights groups.
    Matt Vasilogambros, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The removal via helicopter evoked widespread criticism from Wyoming’s governor and animal rights groups.
    Outdoor Life, 24 Nov. 2020
  • But animal rights groups called the techniques inhumane and said Alaska’s true goal is to reduce the number of predators such as bears and wolves so that game animals tracked by hunters will flourish.
    Author: Darryl Fears, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • But soon, the minks escaped from these farms, and some were freed by animal rights activists in the 1990s.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The young say the pandemic has attuned them to their health and even to animal rights.
    The Economist, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Lee Chae-yeon, a 22-year-old student, told the BBC, the ban was needed to promote animal rights.
    Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The zoo closed after protests from animal rights groups.
    Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 24 June 2024
  • No doubt, the shift in attitudes about animal rights is in part the product of the delight that such glimpses award us.
    Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
  • As the show aged, so did the anger from animal rights groups and activists who frowned on the treatment of the performer animals.
    Marisa Dellatto, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • That’s what draws the crowds and the occasional group of animal rights activists.
    New York Times, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The singer turned heads on the red carpet in her meat dress – and spurred questions and backlash from animal rights activists.
    Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The decades long effort by animal rights groups to derail the monkey trade has made some impact.
    Anna Schecter, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Sarah Kite, co-founder of the animal rights group Action for Primates, applauded the charges.
    Anna Schecter, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The culling has sparked outrage among animal rights activists.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
  • When a photo emerged showing the hunters posing with the carcass of one of the adults that had been killed — a male named Pepe — animal rights activists howled.
    Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The heat could add to ethical concerns from animal rights groups about the dangers of horse racing.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2022
  • Reed has been praised by animal rights groups for putting the interest of his horse first and not running him two weeks later in the Preakness.
    John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • But animal rights groups have been adamantly opposed to mass culling.
    Trisha Thomas, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The girl is both caretaker and best friend, but she and the mule are soon torn apart when animal rights activists protest the circus and EO is shipped off to a nearby horse farm.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2022
  • Wise has spent the past few decades trying to rewire the way Americans conceive of animal rights.
    Molly Young, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The animal rights group suggested that Phil's duties be replaced with a coin toss.
    USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Plus, 5% of the profits from Hourglass' Unlocked Lipstick go to animal rights.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The Greek court said there should be ways to meet the demands of animal rights advocates and the needs of Jews and Muslims who follow the laws about food in their traditions.
    Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Broward voters will choose between Benitez and Lauren Nichole Peffer, 38, a lawyer and animal rights advocate, who also is running for judge for the first time.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2024
  • The death of a beloved white beluga whale in Norway might turn into an assassination investigation after some animal rights groups are alleging he was shot.
    Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024

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