One of them is to not automatically lump animal rights activists with environmentalists. A lot of environmentalists consider the animal rights folks to be the lunatic fringe. There are more occasions now-a-days when they work together, or are at least talking, but while there are some issues in common, a very large number are not.

I'll give you some chapter and verse if you want it. Look up Eugene Hargrove and J. Baird Callicott for numerous essays on these subjects.

SRS