Animal Rights Current Debates and New Directions

Name: Animal Rights Current Debates and New Directions
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ISBN: 9780195152173

ISBN-10: 0195152174

ISBN-13: 9780195152173

Edition: 2004

Authors: Cass R. Sunstein, Martha Craven Nussbaum, Martha C. Nussbaum, Martha C. Nussbaum

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Millions of people live with cats, dogs, and other pets, which they treat as members of their families. But through their daily behavior, people who love those pets, and greatly care about their welfare, help ensure short and painful lives for millions, even billions of animals that cannot easily be distinguished from dogs and cats. Today, the overwhelming percentage of animals with whom Westerners interact are raised for food. Countless animals endure lives of relentless misery and die often torturous deaths. The use of animals by human beings, often for important human purposes, has forced uncomfortable questions to center stage: Should people change their behavior? Should the law…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Contributors


Introduction: What Are Animal Rights?




Current Debates



Animal Rights, One Step at a Time




Animal Rights: Legal, Philosophical, and Pragmatic Perspectives




Ethics beyond Species and beyond Instincts: A Response to Richard Posner




Eating Meat and Eating People




Animals--Property or Persons?




Animals as Objects, or Subjects, of Rights




Drawing Lines




All Animals Are Not Equal: The Interface between Scientific Knowledge and Legislation for Animal Rights




New Directions



Foxes in the Hen House: Animals, Agribusiness, and the Law: A Modern American Fable




A New Property Status for Animals: Equitable Self-Ownership




Can Animals Sue?




Of Mice and Men: A Feminist Fragment on Animal Rights




Animal Rights and the Values of Nonhuman Life




Beyond "Compassion and Humanity": Justice for Nonhuman Animals



Bibliographic Essay


Index