List of songs about animal rights

Animal rights has been a subject of both popular and independent music since the 1970s. Associated with the environmentalist musical counterculture of the previous decade, animal rights songs of the 1970s were influenced by the passage of animal protection laws and the 1975 book Animal Liberation. Paul McCartney has cited John Lennon's Bungalow Bill, released in 1968, as among the first animal rights songs.

Popular themes include anti-whaling (prompted by the Save the Whales movement), opposition to hunting, animal testing and vegetarianism. Bullfighting has been a prominent theme in Spain and some Latin American countries; while folk and pop music have traditionally identified with bullfighting traditions, several ska, rock and punk groups have emerged which oppose them.

Anarcho-punk and veganism have a long association dating back to the 1980s. During this period, American hardcore punk and straight edge scenes became increasingly concerned with animal rights, spawning the vegan straight edge and hardline punk ideologies. An increase in Animal Liberation Front activism in the 1990s corresponded with the rise of vegan straight edge and hardline bands. The more peaceful Krishnacore subgenre, which also advocates vegetarianism and animal rights, developed around this time too. The association between punk subculture and animal rights has continued in the 21st century, with vegan punk festivals including Fluff Fest in the Czech Republic and Verdurada in Brazil.

List of songs about animal rights 

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! Song
! Artist
! Album
! Themes
! Year
! Language
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|"40-year old Vegan"
|Chokeules
|Stay Up
|Veganism
|2014
|English
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|"A Life Embossed"
|Protest the Hero
|Volition
|Opposition to legislations against specific dog breeds
|2013
|English
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|"Acà toro"
|Punkreas
|Paranoia e potere
|Anti-bullfighting
|1995
|Italian
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|"Animal Grace"
|Laura Nyro
|Angel in the Dark
|Animal rights
|2001
|English
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|"Animal Kingdom"
|Prince
|The Truth
|Veganism
|1998
|English
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|"Animal Liberation"
|Los Fastidios
|Guardo avanti
|Anti-animal testing, direct action
|2001
|Italian and English
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|"Beat the Meat"
|Good Clean Fun
|On the Streets Saving the Scene From the Forces of Evil
|Vegetarianism
|2000
|English
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|"Behind the Mask"
|Goldfinger
|Disconnection Notice
|Animal rights activism, veganism
|2005
|English
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|"Blood Sports"
|The Style Council
|"Walls Come Tumbling Down!"
|Anti-hunting, anti-animal blood sports
|1985
|English
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|"Cats and Dogs"
|Gorilla Biscuits
|Start Today
|Speciesism 
|1989
|English
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|"Civilized Man"
|Shelter
|Mantra
|Vegetarianism
|1995
|English
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|"Clams Have Feelings Too (Actually They Don't)"
|NOFX
|Pump Up the Valuum
|Vegetarianism, ethics of eating seafood
|2000
|English
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|"Consume & Kill"
|Manliftingbanner
|Ten Inches That Shook the World
|Vegetarianism
|1992
|English and French
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|"Cow"
|Linda McCartney and Carla Lane
|Wide Prairie
|Vegetarianism
|1998
|English
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|"Cruel Circus"
|The Colourfield
|Virgins and Philistines
|Opposition to animal acts in circuses, anti-trophy hunting, anti-animal testing
|1985
|English
|<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=30 June 2018|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/04378-25-years-on-terry-hall-remembering-the-colourfield-s-virgins-philistines|title=25 Years On: Remembering The Colourfield's Virgins & Philistines |first=Wyndham |last=Wallace |date=June 3, 2010|website=The Quietus|quote=[...] At times, however, [Virgins and Philistines] broadens its reach to address social affairs: 'Cruel Circus refers to "fur coats on ugly people expensively dressed up to kill / In a sport that's legal within the minds of the mentally ill", [...]|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://archive.is/20180630120622/http://thequietus.com/articles/04378-25-years-on-terry-hall-remembering-the-colourfield-s-virgins-philistines|archivedate=30 June 2018}}</ref>
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|"Cruelty Free"
|Los Fastidios
|Siempre contra|Anti-animal testing
|2004
|Italian and English
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|"Death Camps"
|Cro-Mags
|Best Wishes|Vegetarianism
|1989
|English
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|"Don't Kill the Whale"
|Yes
|Tormato|Anti-whaling
|1978
|English
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|"FTN"
|Goldfinger
|Open Your Eyes|Criticism of celebrities promoting the killing of animals
|2002
|English
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|"Human(e) Meat (The Flensing of Sandor Katz)"
|Propagandhi
|Supporting Caste|Hypocrisy of ethical meat eating
|2009
|English
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|"I Don't Eat Animals"
|Melanie Safka
|Leftover Wine|Vegetarianism
|1970
|English
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|"Liberación Animal"
|Chucho Merchán
|El poder sagrado de la vida
|Animal Rights, Animal Liberation
|2017
|Spanish
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|"Looking for Changes"
|Paul McCartney
|Off the Ground|Anti-animal testing
|1993
|English
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|"Long Leather Coat"
|Paul McCartney
|"Hope of Deliverance"
|Anti-fur/leather
|1992
|English
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|"Lower Order (A Good Laugh)"
|Propagandhi
|Victory Lap|Speciesism, Ethics of animal consumption
|2017
|English
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|"Meat Is Murder"
|The Smiths
|Meat Is Murder
|Against all types of meat eating.
|1985
|English
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|"No Longer Human"
|Fall of Efrafa
|Owsla|Veganism
|2006
|English
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|"Now You've Put Your Foot In It"
|Conflict
|Now You've Put Your Foot In It EP
|Criticism of the cattle culls following the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak
|2001
|English
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|"Pig in a Blanket"
|Rudimentary Peni
|Death Church|Vegetarianism
|1983
|English
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|"Potemkin City Limits"
|Propagandhi
|Supporting Caste|Anti-animal husbandry, animal consciousness
|2009
|English
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|"Puppies and Friends"
|Atrophy
|Violent by Nature|Animal rights
|1990
|English
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|"Real Food"
|MDC 
|Shades of Brown|Vegetarianism
|1993
|English
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|"San Fermín"
|Attaque 77
|Amén!|Anti-bullfighting
|1995
|Spanish
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|"Save the Whales!"
|Country Joe McDonald
|Paradise With an Ocean View|Anti-modern whaling
|1975
|English
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|"Show Us You Care"
|Icons of Filth
|Onward Christian Soldiers|Anti-animal testing
|1984
|English
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|"Shut Up Already"
|NOFX
|Liberal Animation|Anti-animal rights activism
|1988
|English
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|"Skin"
|Siouxsie and the Banshees
|Kaleidoscope|Anti-fur/leather
|1980
|English
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|"Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky"
|Manic Street Preachers
|Everything Must Go|Anti-zoos
|1996
|English
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|"Song of the World's Last Whale"
|Pete Seeger
|At 89|Anti-whaling
|1970
|English
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|"The Bullfighter Dies"
|Morrisey
|World Peace Is None of Your Business|Anti-bullfighting
|2014
|English
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|"The Last Leviathan"
|Sheena Wellington
|Kerelaw|Anti-whaling
|1986
|English
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|"This Is It"
|Vegan Reich
|Hardline|Hardline
|1990
|English
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|"To the Last Whale..."
|Crosby & Nash
|Wind on the Water|Anti-whaling
|1975
|English
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|"Unjustified Murder"
|Dropdead
|Dropdead|Anti-animal testing, direct action
|1993
|English
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|"Vergüenza"
|Ska-P
|Planeta Eskoria|Anti-bullfighting
|2000
|Spanish
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|"Waste"
|Good Riddance
|Ballads from the Revolution|Ethics of eating meat
|1998
|English
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|"Wild Life"
|Paul McCartney and Wings
|Wild Life''
|Opposition to anthropization that affects wildlife
|1971
|English
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See also 
List of political punk songs#On environmentalism and animal rights
 List of vegan media

Notes

References 

Animal Rights Songs