Animals as persons
Subtitle: essays on the abolition of animal exploitation
By: Gary L. Francione.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780231139502; 9780231511568
Subjects: Animal rights; Animal welfare -- Law and legislation; Animals -- Law and legislation
Description: Gary L. Francione explains our historical and contemporary attitudes about animals by distinguishing the issue of animal use from that of animal treatment. He then presents a theory of animal rights that focuses on the need to accord all sentient nonhumans the right not to be treated as property.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The abolition of animal use versus the regulation of animal treatment; title: Animals : property or persons?; title: Reflections on animals, property, and the law and rain without thunder; title: Taking sentience seriously; title: Equal consideration and the interest of nonhuman animals in continued existence : a response to Professor Sunstein; title: The use of nonhuman animals in biomedical research : necessity and justification; title: Ecofeminism and animal rights : a review of beyond animal rights : a feminist; title: Caring ethic for the treatment of animals; title: Comparable harm and equal inherent value : the problem of the dog in the lifeboat.