Henry Bergh was a wealthy American who devoted his life to protecting the helpless-animals, and children. He founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in April 1866, after consulting with the Earl of Harrowby, president of England's Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, founded in 1840. He set up public water fountains for animals, including cats, in Manhattan. Bergh was born on August 29, 1811.
Onora Sylvia O'Neill (August 23, 1941) is a British thinker. She studied at Oxford and received a doctorate from Harvard. After a noted career, in 1992, she accepted the post of Principal of N ewnham College, Cambridge, and since 2006 she has been Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge. Her 1997 paper, "Environmental Values, Anthroporphism, and Speciesism" contains a timely argument in which Dr. O'Neill, (she prefers that title to the "Baroness" to which her elevation to the peerage allows) points out inadequacies in the use of the term speciesism to argue against according humans more ethical rights than aspects of the non human world. A viewpoint that puts " a person torturing a cat is on a par with a cat torturing a bird," is not one she finds supportable. The link is to a downloadable version of this paper. We have this picture of Onora O'Neill, in 2002, at Newnham College: We meet in the Principal's lodge at Ne
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