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Introduction to Animal Rights Gary L. Francione ; foreword by Alan Watson

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Two-thirds of Americans polled by the Associated Press agree with the following statement: ""An animal's right to live free of suffering should be just as important as a person's right to live free of suffering."" More than 50 percent of Americans believe that it is wrong to kill animals to make fur coats or to hunt them for sport. But these same Americans eat hamburgers, take their children to circuses and rodeos, and use products developed with animal testing. How do we justify our inconsistency? In this easy-to-read introduction, animal rights advocate Gary Francione looks at

כותר Introduction to Animal Rights Gary L. Francione
foreword by Alan Watson.
מהדורה New edition with corrections.
מוציא לאור Philadelphia : Temple University Press
מדפיס Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE
שנה 2000
הערות "Reprinted 2007 with corrections."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-224) and index.
English
הערת תוכן ותקציר Contents
Foreword by Alan Watson
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Diagnosis: Our Moral Schizophrenia about Animals
2. Vivisection: A Trickier Question
3. The Cause of Our Moral Schizophrenia: Animals as Property
4. The Cure for Our Moral Schizophrenia: The Principle of Equal Consideration
Photographs
5. Robots, Religion, and Rationality
6. Having Our Cow and Eating Her Too: Bentham's Mistake
7. Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?
Appendix: Twenty Questions (and Answers)
Notes
Index
היקף החומר 1 online resource (276 p.)
שפה אנגלית
שנת זכויות יוצרים ©2000.
מספר מערכת 997012282105205171
תצוגת MARC

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