Richard D. Ryder
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Richard D. Ryder (born 1940) is a British psychologist who, after performing psychology experiments on animals, began to speak out against the practice, and became one of the pioneers of the modern animal liberation and animal rights movements. He was Mellon Professor at Tulane University, New Orleans, and is the author of Painism: A Modern Morality and Putting Morality Back into Politics, due to be published in 2006.
A former chairman of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals council, and a past president of Britain's Liberal Democrat Animal Protection Group, he is parliamentary consultant to the Political Animal Lobby as of April 2004.
Ryder coined the term speciesism in 1970 while lying in the bath, [1] and first used it in a privately-printed leaflet published in Oxford that same year.
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References
- "All beings that feel pain deserve human rights" by Richard Ryder, The Guardian, August 6, 2005
