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Do 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.
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David DeGrazia is Associate Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is the author of Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status (1996) and of numerous articles in philosophy and ethics journals He is also co-editor, with Thomas Mappes, of Biomedical Ethics (2001). Currently he is researching various topics at the intersection of personal identity theory and bioethics.
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Acting on an anonymous tip in April 2001, Compassion Over Killing (COK), a Washington, DC-based animal rights organization, began investigating an enormous industrial hen house owned by agricultural company ISE-America in Cecilton, Maryland. Read the first page
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Acting on an anonymous tip in April 2001, Compassion Over Killing (COK), a Washington, DC-based animal rights organization, began investigating an enormous industrial hen house owned by agricultural company ISE-America in Cecilton, Maryland. Read the first page
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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I'd lend my copy this book to anyone even vaguely interested in the subject. I can't really assess how sound the philosophy behind the ideas in this book is, because i don't really know it, but as an outline of the main animal rights theories, its impeccable. DeGrazia has written more academic works, but this is very straightforward and accessible, it certainly made me think about animals in a different way.
Criticism - its not impartial. The author quickly states his own perspective and views, and these always seem to get the most covereage. He appears to sometimes dismiss criticism of animal rights a bit too flippantly. But overall, this is a very readable and interesting book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I used this as an introductory book, as it were, to animal ethics and theory in other books.
David DeGrazia, an authoritive author on animal rights literature, examines briefly three main issues that demand a reasoned perspective on animal welfare, and these are: animals for food (namely meat), keeping pets and zoo animals and animals research.
DeGrazia transcends over the two most principal ethical theories in this field: Utilitarianism and the "strong animal rights view" (mainly advocated by Tom Regan). He applies these theories to the areas in which animals are used above, and also uses the less used "sliding-scale model", a model which assesses the relative treatment of animals based on their cognitive, emotional and social complexity.
By doing so DeGrazia shows us that animals ought to be considered, and that there is more than one way of doing so.
Anyone interested in the animal rights debate, whether for or against, or someone endeavouring to start reading literature on animal ethics, you should read this book.
David DeGrazia, an authoritive author on animal rights literature, examines briefly three main issues that demand a reasoned perspective on animal welfare, and these are: animals for food (namely meat), keeping pets and zoo animals and animals research.
DeGrazia transcends over the two most principal ethical theories in this field: Utilitarianism and the "strong animal rights view" (mainly advocated by Tom Regan). He applies these theories to the areas in which animals are used above, and also uses the less used "sliding-scale model", a model which assesses the relative treatment of animals based on their cognitive, emotional and social complexity.
By doing so DeGrazia shows us that animals ought to be considered, and that there is more than one way of doing so.
Anyone interested in the animal rights debate, whether for or against, or someone endeavouring to start reading literature on animal ethics, you should read this book.
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Very good introduction. Very accessible and very informative. Unlike some reviewers,I did not feel that the text was bias. Yes we do know which side of the fence the author stands but that is all. Well worth the read but also need to look at more recent texts.
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