Written in a clear, engaging and accessible style, it is suitable as a teaching text for Animal Law courses, and for the wider legal community and general reader interested in animal welfare. This is the first Australian text to offer a truly integrated and comprehensive coverage of animal law issues. It combines the philosophical and ethical dimensions to animal law with the practical, legal and regulatory frameworks governing animals in Australia.
Sometimes , as Betsy Todd illustrated , animal research gives the illusion of importance ; but even with the advantage of source credibility inherent in medical credentials , vivisection cannot hold up under close scrutiny .
Rollin offers a fully revised discussion of this white-hot debate over animal rights. Many of Rollin's concerns have taken center stage, and his proposed legislation to protect animals in experimentation has become federal law.
He puts the issue of animal rights in historical context, drawing parallels between animal rights activism and other social movements, including the anti-slavery movement in the nineteenth century and the gay-lesbian struggle today.
She tells the story of how she became an advocate and the many individual birds she has known and whose lives and deaths have deepened her commitment to seeking their freedom from suffering.
For the Birds: From Exploitation to Liberation : Essays on Chickens, Turkeys, and Other Domestic Fowl
Do animals have rights? If not, do we have duties towards them? If so, what duties? These are myariad other issues are discussed in this brilliantly argued book, published in association with the leading think-tank Demos.
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Η απελευθέρωση των ζώων
Beschrijving van het lijden van dieren bij dierexperimenten en in de bio-industrie, die leidt tot het op ethische gronden verwerpen van het gebruik van de dieren voor deze doeleinden
Lewis is agnostic about self - consciousness even in higher animals . Elephants , even in the wild , presumably have some form of selfconsciousness and so a " rudimentary " individuality . But for the most part he would limit ...