Projects
Below are various projects that are presently underway or are in limbo. Anyone wishing to assist with these are welcome to be initiated into close encounters of the fourth kind.
This page is under continual modification.
1 Active
1.1 Animal Violence to Human Violence
A list of individuals who show a well-established pattern where abuse and murder of animals, later leads to the abuse and murder of humans.
1.2 AR Guide
This is a guide and resource to knowing about and doing animal rights.
Links:
AR Guide
1.3 China Study
A continuation of the initial effort on 30bad to analyze the China Study data.
1.4 Fallacy Project
Fallacy in Animal Rights and Vegan Discussions. Identification and categorization of fallacious reasoning as they apply to animal rights and vegan arguments.
Links:
Fallacy Project
1.5 How To Do Animal Rights
A study group for Ben Isacat's book.
Links:
How To Do Animal Rights
1.6 I Told You So!
This is the elaboration of the I Told You So thread, but also relates to the H in HEE.
Links:
I Told You So
1.7 Hi Neighbor!
Photographs of our neighbors and an on-going pursuit.
Links:
Hi Neigbor
1.8 RSHA
Really Stupid Human Activities listed on ycc.
Links:
RSHA
1.9 Sound Bytes
Often it is helpful to have specific facts available regarding items that come up over and over again. The idea behind sound bytes would be to produce well-substantiated answers to issues that activists repeated face.
1.10 VegPets
This document will provide information regarding vegetarian pets in light of ethical as well as nutritional perspectives.
Links:
VegPet
2 Waiting
2.1 Animal Cognition
Most people do not have a clue as to the extent of work done in the area of animal cognition.
Links:
Are humans unique in the animal kingdom?
Amazing Animal Altruism
Marc Bekoff Central
Jonathan Balcombe Central
2.2 Animal Rights FAQ
The immense document requires further re-organization. It addresses practically any issue animal rights activists face and provides an appropriately varied set of answers. There are plans to turn it eventually into an expert system.
Links:
FAQ
2.3 Computations
It is of benefit to produce hard numbers in order to show the reality of a situation. This project will apply research and calculations to demonstrate several matters such as the environmental effect of leather vs pleather, planting fruit trees vs raising cattle etc.
Links:
Animal Visuals
2.4 Debait
Debating techniques and activities relating to animal rights. The playing field will be setup on YourCyberCourt eventually.
Links:
30badigos
2.5 ELBOT
A blog spy designed to accumulate data on peculiar response patterns in blog comments. A prototype has been in operation, but further modifications are pending.
Links:
unavailble due to secretive nature of project
2.6 HAAH
The species doesn't have a good record regarding Human Atrocities Against Humans. The extent to just how bad it's been often gets muffled away by ignorance - sometimes deliberate. This project will accumulate the large scale atrocities committed by humans on other humans to provide a clear picture of the realities.
Links:
pending
2.7 HEE
Health, Environment, Ethics are the three pillars opposing the corpse industry diets. We need to produce elaborations and resources for each of these.
Links:
goVeg!
2.8 minimaLinux
Creation of useful minimal linux systems. Though not directly related to ar, explorations in this area may eventually prove to be useful in a variety of ways.
Links:
http://minimalinux.org/