Animal Rights: A Very Short IntroductionDo animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research. Animal Rights distinguishes itself by combining intellectual rigour with accessibility, offering a distinct moral voice with a non-polemical tone. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. |
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Page 124 - ... dances (Through Our Eyes Only?, pp. 88-99). 44 This example is developed in Peter Carruthers, The Animals Issue: Moral Theory in Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 56-57. Carruthers cites H. Rachlin, Behaviour and Learning (Oxford: Freeman, 1976), pp. 125-26, 45 Andrew N. Rowan, Franklin M. Loew, and Joan C. Weer, The Animal Research Controversy (North Grafton, MA: Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy, 1994), p. 74. 46 Bateson, "Assessment of Pain in Animals,
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