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Oxford Group (animal rights)
The Oxford Group consisted of a group of intellectuals in England in the late 1960s and early 1970s associated with the University of Oxford, who met and corresponded to discuss the emerging concept of animal rights, or animal liberation.〔
==Overview==
The Oxford Group initially consisted of postgraduate philosophy students, and included Stanley and Roslind Godlovitch, John Harris, David Wood, and Michael Peters (a sociology postgrad). Its members were active in academic circles in Oxford, and through their influence others became interested in the idea of developing a moral philosophy that included non-humans. A particular inspiration was the writing of Brigid Brophy, the novelist. The idea of editing a collection of essays on animal rights emerged, and Brophy and others agreed to contribute. It was the publisher Gollancz (in the person of Giles Gordon) who suggested that such a book would be more interesting if group members contributed, as well as better known authors. The book was published as ''Animals, Men and Morals'' in 1971.〔
It should be said that 'The Oxford Group' title was invented much later by a Wikipedia contributor. There was never any formal grouping as such, but rather a loose collection of people (many, but by no means all, post-graduate philosophers) who were all interested in Animal Rights because of the moral issues raised. Many went on to become vegetarians or vegans, and campaigned or otherwise co-operated in this cause. Only in hindsight might this be regarded as a 'Group'.
The period was a fertile one for the development of the concept of animal rights, both at the academic and activist level. Members of the Oxford Group contributed to a series of scholarly works that examined the moral assumptions underpinning the use of non-human animals, and helped to formulate a counter-position.〔Phelps, Norm. "The Oxford Group," in ''The Longest Struggle: Animal Rights from Pythagoras to Peta''. Lantern Books, 2007, pp. 205–207.〕 The group engaged in political activism too, writing and handing out leaflets protesting against animal testing and hunting.〔Ryder, Richard D. "The Oxford Group," in Marc Bekoff (ed.). ''The Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare''. Greenwood, 2009, pp. 261–262.〕 Two of its members, Richard D. Ryder and Andrew Linzey, organized the Cambridge Conference on Animal Rights at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1977, the first international conference devoted explicitly to animal rights.〔
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