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by David DeGrazia (Author) "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..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks (21 Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192853600
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192853608
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.6 x 1.2 cm
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars small, perfectly formed, 6 Nov 2003
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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars As an introduction, it is perfect, 16 May 2009
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.
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