Taşçılı, Tarsus Taşçılı, Tarsus Taşçılı is a village in Tarsus district of Mersin Province, Turkey. At it is situated on the lower slopes of the Toros Mountains. Its distance to Tarsus is and to Mersin is . The population of Taşçılı was 745 as of 2011. The village is a Turkmen village. The main economic sectors of the village are agriculture and animal breeding. Grapes, carab, olice and various citrus species are among the crops. Poultry raising as well as ovine and cattle husbandry are other economic activities. Taşçılı is one of the villages in which dairying is promoted by the government.
Animal rights extended previous research, such as a 1992 study which found that 48% of animal rights activists were atheists or agnostic. Two surveys found that attitudes towards animal rights tactics, such as direct action, are very diverse within the animal rights communities. Near half (50% and 39% in two surveys) of activists do not support direct action. One survey concluded "it would be a mistake to portray animal rights activists as homogeneous." Animal rights Animal rights is the idea in which some, or all, non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that their most basic interests—such