| Animal Rights and Wrongs Contributor(s): Scruton, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826494048 ISBN-13: 9780826494047 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2007 Annotation: Do animals have rights? If not, do we have duties towards them? If so, what duties? These and other issues are discussed in this book. It includes chapters on the livestock crisis, fishing, BSE and a layman's introduction to philosophical concepts. It presents a response to the defenders of animal rights. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 179.3 |
| LCCN: 2007272007 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 8" (0.50 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A revised and improved edition of a book in continuing demand. 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. Why are animal-rights groups so keen to protect the rights of badgers and foxes but not of rats mice or even humans? How can we bridge the growing gap between rural producers and urban consumers? Why is raising animals for fur more heinous than raising them for their meat? Are we as human beings driving other species either to extinction or to a state of dependency? This paperback edition is fully updated with new chapters on the livestoick crisis, fishing and BSE and a layman's guide introduction to philosophical concepts, the book presents a radical respponse to the defenders of animal rights and a challenge to those who think that because they are kind to their pets, they are therefore good news for animals. A revised and improved edition of a book in continuing demand. 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. Why are animal-rights groups so keen to protect the rights of badgers and foxes but not of rats mice or even humans? How can we bridge the growing gap between rural producers and urban consumers? Why is raising animals for fur more heinous than raising them for their meat? Are we as human beings driving other species either to extinction or to a state of dependency? This paperback edition is fully updated with new chapters on the livestoick crisis, fishing and BSE and a layman's guide introduction to philosophical concepts, the book presents a radical respponse to the defenders of animal rights and a challenge to those who think that because they are kind to their pets, they are therefore good news for animals. |
Contributor Bio(s): Scruton, Roger: - Sir ROGER SCRUTON is a writer and philosopher who has published more than forty books in philosophy and politics, including Kant and An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy. He is widely translated. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches in both England and America and is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington D.C. He is currently teaching an MA in Philosophy for the University of Buckingham. |