Animal rights
By: Nicola Barber, Patience Coster
Contributors: Coster, Patience
Series: Both sides of the story; Both sides of the story
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9781445109916
Subjects: Animal rights; Juvenile literature; Animals; Treatment; Ethics
Description: Explores the ethical debate around what rights should animals have in the modern world? Can animal cruelty be justified by human demands for affordable meat or medical advances? While few people would argue against animal welfare, our modern lifestyle is made possible in part by animal suffering.
Notes: Includes glossary, further information and index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 45) and index.

Key Stage 3.
Table of contents: title: Different from us?; title: A background to animal rights; title: Meat, milk and mass production; title: Animals and science; title: Wild animals; title: The pleasure principle; title: Rights and wrongs.