Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction; Part I Arguments in Favour of Animal Rights: All animals are equal, Peter Singer; The case for animal rights, Tom Regan; The rights of the non-human world, Mary Anne Warren; Why animals have a right to liberty, James Rachels. Part II Critical Views on Animal Rights - and Some Responses: Animal rights, R.G. Frey; Animal rights: a reply to Frey, Dale Jamieson and Tom Regan; Moral rights and animals, H.J. McCloskey; Must an opponent of animal rights also be an opponent of human rights?, Evelyn B. Pluhar; Animal rights revisited, Jan Narveson; Inherent value and moral rights, Paul W.Taylor; Animal liberation or animal rights, Peter Singer; Rights, justice and duties to provide assistance: a critique of Regan's theory of rights, Dale Jamieson; Animal rights and feminist theory, Josephine Donovan; Animal liberation and environmental ethics: bad marriage, quick divorce, Mark Sagoff; Animal rights and social relations, Ted Benton; Doing right by our animal companions, Keith Burgess-Jackson. Part III Animal Rights and Human Uses: Eating meat and eating people, Cora Diamond; Utilitarianism, vegetarianism and animal rights, Tom Regan; Social ethics, animal rights, and agriculture, Bernard E. Rollin; The case for the use of animals in biomedical research, Carl Cohen; On Carl Cohen's 'kind' arguments for animal rights and against animal rights, Nathan Nobis; Your daughter or your dog? A feminist assessment of the animal research issue, Deborah Slicer; The ethics of animal research: what are the prospects for agreement?, David Degrazia; Zoos and the rights of animals, Donald G. Lindburg. Part IV Political and Legal Rights for Animals: Human duties and animal rights, Joel Feinberg; Taking sentience seriously, Gary L. Francione; Animals as subjects or objects of rights, Richard A. Epstein; Nonhuman animal property: reconciling environmentalism and animal rights, John Hadley; A great shout: legal rights for great apes, Steven M. Wise; Simian sovereignty, Ro