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Do Animals Have Rights?
Alison Hills
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Description for Do Animals Have Rights?
Paperback. Alison Hills carefully examines the arguments for both sides and defends a practical, liveable idea of the ethics of animals, dsitinguishing ways in which animals are our equals from ways in which they are not. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 245. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
In December 1998, animal rights activist Barry Horne lay dying in prison on hunger strike. A convicted arsonitst, he had decided to become a martyr to the cause. At the same time, the extremist Animal Rights Militia issued a hit list. If Horne died, ten 'vivisectionists' would be assasinated. Animal rights is an emotive issue never far from the news. But it is often hard to know who to believe: radical animal rights protestors who claim that humans and animals should have equal rights; or scientists who argue that it is always legitimate to use animals for our benefit. In ... Read more
In December 1998, animal rights activist Barry Horne lay dying in prison on hunger strike. A convicted arsonitst, he had decided to become a martyr to the cause. At the same time, the extremist Animal Rights Militia issued a hit list. If Horne died, ten 'vivisectionists' would be assasinated. Animal rights is an emotive issue never far from the news. But it is often hard to know who to believe: radical animal rights protestors who claim that humans and animals should have equal rights; or scientists who argue that it is always legitimate to use animals for our benefit. In ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840466232
SKU
KSS0002894
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Ref
99-1
About Alison Hills
Alison Hills is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Bristol. This is her first book
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