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Introduction to animal rights : your child or the dog?
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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...
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
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- Creator
- Gary L. Francione ; foreword by Alan Watson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New edition with corrections
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1282732412, 9786612732416, 1439905126, 1566396913, 1566396921
- OCLC
- ocn656841482, ocn664233939
- "Reprinted 2007 with corrections."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- 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