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Introduction to Animal Rights
Gary Francione
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Description for Introduction to Animal Rights
Paperback. Two-thirds of Americans polled by the "Associated Press" agree with the following statement: 'An animal's right to live free of suffering should be just as important as a person's right to live free of suffering.' This title is a guidebook to examining our social and personal ethical beliefs. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
Two-thirds of Americans polled by the Associated Press agree with the following statement: \u0022An animal's right to live free of suffering should be just as important as a person's right to live free of suffering.\u0022 More than 50 percent of Americans believe that it is wrong to kill animals to make fur coats or to hunt them for sport. But these same Americans eat hamburgers, take their children to circuses and rodeos, and use products developed with animal testing. How do we justify our inconsistency? In this easy-to-read introduction, animal rights advocate Gary Francione looks at our conventional moral ... Read more
Two-thirds of Americans polled by the Associated Press agree with the following statement: \u0022An animal's right to live free of suffering should be just as important as a person's right to live free of suffering.\u0022 More than 50 percent of Americans believe that it is wrong to kill animals to make fur coats or to hunt them for sport. But these same Americans eat hamburgers, take their children to circuses and rodeos, and use products developed with animal testing. How do we justify our inconsistency? In this easy-to-read introduction, animal rights advocate Gary Francione looks at our conventional moral ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
413g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781566396929
SKU
V9781566396929
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About Gary Francione
Gary L. Francione is Professor of Law and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University Law School, Newark. He is the author of Animals, Property, an dthe Law and Rain without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement (both Temple).
Reviews for Introduction to Animal Rights
[Francione] lays out his argument simply and forcefully...[the book is] a frank, lucid polemic that belongs on every 'animal-lover's' bookshelf. -Vegetarian Voice Gary Francione claims that most of us are morally schizophrenic and demonstrates well that there often is a wide gulf between what we claim is due to other animals and what we actually do to ... Read more